Process-Oriented Production of Learning Units for Sustainable E-Learning Offerings

Abstract

During the federal funding program ‘New Media in Education’, a project group was established, which produces learning contents for two E-Learning offerings of an international virtual university. The continuous improvement and development of the required production processes with the objective of creating professional and competitive learning units lead to process and efficiency-driven approaches for E-Learning production. After introducing the main elements from business process orientation and their application to the E-Learning domain, this contribution proposes a generic procedural model for the production of reusable and standard-compliant E-Learning offerings, which has been derived from the practical experiences. On a Micro-layer, this model can be adapted to meet the individual requirements of content developers. In the second part, the documented processes and their advantages are illustrated using two examples from practical project work: the production of video assets and XML-based SCO production.