Comments on: Audio in eLearning: Do American and British customers differ? http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/02/audio-in-elearning-do-american-and-british-customers-differ/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:15:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: amit http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/02/audio-in-elearning-do-american-and-british-customers-differ/comment-page-1/#comment-201 amit Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:13:10 +0000 http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/?p=1014#comment-201 Mark, Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I am happy to see the learner feedback on your program. My views are quite the same on use of audio – if designed well it does impact learner experience positively. And any bandwidth constraints that existed earlier are not there anymore and that makes downloading audio (even video) easy. Mark,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I am happy to see the learner feedback on your program. My views are quite the same on use of audio – if designed well it does impact learner experience positively. And any bandwidth constraints that existed earlier are not there anymore and that makes downloading audio (even video) easy.

]]> By: Mark King http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/02/audio-in-elearning-do-american-and-british-customers-differ/comment-page-1/#comment-199 Mark King Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:24:18 +0000 http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/?p=1014#comment-199 Great article. I'm really pleased to see some statistical data with regard to the uptake of audio in e-learning courses. We have recently launched two publically available short courses in Australia relating to safety in the Construction Industry and responsible service of alcohol. Both courses use audio very heavily within their delivery and we have received great feedback on this. To illustrate this, we have had over 5,000 participants who have taken the course. of the nearly 500 voluntary feedback forms submitted: 97% were satisfied with the training experience overall. 98% would recommend others to take the course through us. 96% found the time to download the course pages was acceptable. The last statistic is interesting as many designers worry that the bandwidth overhead relating to audio can make the course less acceptable. On the contrary, we are finding that the use of high quality audio can provide a better experience so long as it contributes directly to the course objectives. We have also received feedback from indigenous Australian clients that the use of both audio and text provides them with a better level of training. In summary, our limited exposure to the online training / e-learning market indicate that participants within Australia are very accepting of the use of audio, regardless of cultural background. Great article. I’m really pleased to see some statistical data with regard to the uptake of audio in e-learning courses.

We have recently launched two publically available short courses in Australia relating to safety in the Construction Industry and responsible service of alcohol. Both courses use audio very heavily within their delivery and we have received great feedback on this.

To illustrate this, we have had over 5,000 participants who have taken the course. of the nearly 500 voluntary feedback forms submitted:

97% were satisfied with the training experience overall.
98% would recommend others to take the course through us.
96% found the time to download the course pages was acceptable.

The last statistic is interesting as many designers worry that the bandwidth overhead relating to audio can make the course less acceptable. On the contrary, we are finding that the use of high quality audio can provide a better experience so long as it contributes directly to the course objectives.

We have also received feedback from indigenous Australian clients that the use of both audio and text provides them with a better level of training.

In summary, our limited exposure to the online training / e-learning market indicate that participants within Australia are very accepting of the use of audio, regardless of cultural background.

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