Saturday, September 13, 2008

An Ideal World: The E-Learning P3 Model


The People-Process-Product Continuum in E-Learning: The E-Learning P3Model -Badrul H. Khan

People, process and the product are the foundations of this eLearning model. The article breaks down the process into planning, design, development, evaluation and delivery. At each stage in the process the people involved and their responsibilities are detailed. This is where the article starts to feel a little bit like the ideal world. There is a job for each responsibility in the process; a designer, a copyright coordinator, an evaluation specialist, a course integrator, multimedia developer, graphic artist.... I have my doubts that there are many organizations that have people for each of these roles. But, it is a model so I let me put these doubts aside. At each stage in the process a product is produced. In the above illustration I replicated the figure 1. that illustrates which product is produced at which state in the process by the appropriate group.

The value of the article is in the detailed description of the process of creating eLearning products. As one plans it is good to have an idea of what the planning process looks like. This article provides such a reference.

2 comments:

What's going on with Dave Strousberg? said...

Great post! I also thought that this was definately the model for an ideal world. I mean who has the resources for all of those people? I imagine that a few people take on many responsibilities. Does that make sense?

Unknown said...

I agree with you Sheri. The model is great but a bit unrealistic. I've been the corporate world for over 30 years-no one has this kind of stafff nor resources-the author is in nirvana or something.