BP4ED: Best practices online for eLearning content development development based on learning objects

The development of effective eLearning content is complex. In addition to subject matter experts (SMEs), it involves instructional design (ID) experts, technical design (TD) experts, and production personnel (PP). In small projects, a single person with experience may take all of those roles on. Large projects usually involve different people in each role, and a few eLearning officers to help other participants' interaction. This paper presents the design of a web system that will facilitate the role and interaction of SMEs, ID experts, TD experts and PPs through the use of best practices online. Our system is organised around a set of templates of learning objects, designed after best practices regarding ID and TD in the literature, that will guide both development and presentation of eLearning content. For some eLearning our system may prove less flexible than the software tools currently used for developing eLearning content. However, we argue that our system will significanly increase the chances of developing effective eLearning content in less time. Our system is being developed as a cloud-based web system. The paper presents some implementation results on the functioning of our system.