About Us

The explosive growth of the Internet and related technologies has created a powerful medium for communicating with customers, business partners, and employees. An important use of this medium is the delivery of proprietary or custom knowledge to a targeted audience. In many situations, this might even be the only viable way to meet ongoing communication needs.

As the need to use the Internet to communicate knowledge grows, it is imperative to develop content in such a way as to maximize its impact and ensure a high return on investment. For a long-term sustained program, it is also necessary to make the development process predictable and repeatable over time to address a variety of communications needs.

Blue Lotus specializes in developing cost-effective, yet highly engaging and effective, custom e-learning content and online courseware. Blue Lotus’s expertise cuts across:

Content Architecting
Need Assessment & Analysis
Template Designs
Storyboarding
Standard Compliance
Quality Audits
Integration
Rollout and Training.

Blue Lotus also helps clients in adapting legacy content to new learning environments.

Ensure Instructional Integrity and Usability for Audience Group
Focus on Delivery Risk Mitigation and Efficiency
Focus on 24 x 7 Low cost offshore development
RE-USABLITY: Process Leverages Re-Usable Learning Objects Repository for Cataloging, Accessing, and Rights Management Tracking of All Content Asset

Our content development methodology is designed to improve the online learning value point for our customers - that is, to help it achieve a more effective and engaging online learning experience, at a low cost, by utilizing:

Phase	Activities
Analysis	Detailed Content Analysis Audience Analysis
Design of the Prototype	Instructional Strategies for the prototype
Development of the Prototype	Storyboard for the prototype Integration of the prototype
Approval of the Prototype	Validation of content by the Subject Matter Experts (SME) Validation of look and feel, navigation and interactivity by the Client
Design of the rest of the courseware	Instructional Strategies Test Design Glossary and Reference
Development of the rest of the courseware	Storyboard Integration
Implementation and Evaluation	Acceptance test Sign-off & deliver with user documentation

Activities	Explanations
Project Planning	Senior Instructional Designers work with the Client to perform a requirement analysis and prepare a project plan.
Content Analysis	Senior Instructional Designers study the existing training and if possible, attend a classroom session. They study the strategies used to instruct each training objective and their benefits/disadvantages. They propose equivalent or innovative strategies for the Courseware.
Audience Analysis	Senior Instructional Designers analyze the audience for: Age, educational background and professional experience Prerequisite knowledge in the area of training Existing mindset and attitude of the learners about security issues

Activities	Explanations
Instructional Strategies	Instructional Designers design the Courseware outline, instructional objectives and broad instructional strategies of each module based on the analysis done earlier.
Test Design	Instructional Designers also design practice and test items to be used in the Courseware.
Glossary and Reference	Additional reference material to be included in the Courseware is also designed. This activity may not be carried out for the prototype.

Activities

Explanations

Storyboard

In this phase, each page of the course is scripted. The text is written out in Microsoft Word and visualized with graphic designers.
The storyboard is a document that can be reviewed by organizations for correctness and validity of the content. However, it does not provide any idea of the look and feel and navigation elements.

Integration

Activities in this phase include:

Graphic and animation creation
Combining of text, graphics, animation onto pages
Programming the courseware for navigation and interactivity
Quality assurance testing

Activities	Explanations
Acceptance Test	The Courseware is installed at the server designated for the purpose and is tested by Client users.
Hand-over	The final Courseware deliverables are handed over to the Client along with the user documentation. Technical staff is also trained as per the Client’s requirements.

Due to the nature of delivery (self-paced, self-driven), the success of an online course is directly linked to the motivation of the learner to begin, complete and learn from the course. Learners who are not motivated usually do not learn even from the best training material. Henry Keller’s ARCS model of motivation breaks motivation into four components. These are described below along with our proposed methods to incorporate these elements into the course.

Component	Techniques	Strategies
Attention	Perceptual Arousal Inquiry Arousal Variability	Use of attractive visuals and animations Use of questions to get the learners thinking. Use of different instructional and presentation strategies, such as discovery, enquiry-based and tell-test learning
Relevance	Motive matching Presentation of objectives	Use of realistic scenarios; statement of benefit of learning in real life; objective-driven learning
Confidence	Expectation of success	Sufficient and challenging practice in life-like scenarios; immediate and corrective feedback
Satisfaction	Rewards: Implicit and explicit	Immediate positive feedback for correct answers; Summarization of key learning points