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Published Date: 06/05/2006

The Rapid e-Learning Research Report 2006

According to the Guild’s latest study on the subject, demand for rapid e-Learning among our community’s organizations has increased from 70% in 2005 (see The Rapid e-Learning Development Research Report) to 82% in 2006 (see Question 10 in this report). In last year’s report we wrote that there may be no hotter topic in the world of e-Learning than rapid e-Learning and this same opinion seems to be holding true again this year. The eLearning Guild Research Committee has been studying this phenomenon for the past two and one-half years. We began by asking some simple and straightforward questions: Is rapid e-Learning simply a slick marketing buzz-word created to sell the latest authoring tools? Or is there really substance to the term?

Is there an emerging set of practices that truly constitute a replicable, scalable design process known as rapid e-Learning development? Both the 2005 report and this year’s study suggest that rapid e-Learning is becoming a more pervasive and disciplined practice as it struggles with and solves problems common to all e-Learning design and delivery efforts. The bottom line: rapid e-Learning is for real and seems to be here to stay.