Online Training Program on “Acceptance Test Driven Development” for Pearson Lanka (Pvt) Ltd

Abstract

The project course work is designed as an on-the-job training on “Acceptance Test Driven Development” or ATDD for software engineers in Pearson Lanka. At the designing of the course work, it is focused on applying e-learning principles, methods and tools in order to plan, design, develop, implement and evaluate the online training program. The project is focused on identifying the performance problem in the client’s organization. Some of the issues are project delivery time is exceeding than the estimated, communication gap between key stakeholders, and untestable-unmaintainable codes. In this project, we are trying to analyze the root-cause for the performance problem and find a solution to solve the performance problem. It is also focused on learner analysis, content analysis and work setting analysis, which are essential for designing an effective e-learning course with appropriate content materials and structured courseware. Course work has been designed in order to support software engineers to give practical knowledge and enabling them to apply the learnings on their software development work. The other main objective of the e-learning project is to provide a flexible learning environment where software engineers can follow the training without affecting their day to day work and other commitments. The course workload is designed to be at minimum level and encourage the software engineers to have discussions among them to share the experience and knowledge. The project report also includes details of the course lessons with overview and detailed storyboards of the course and it also describes the design considerations. Lesson content pages have been designed according to the multimedia principles in order to have higher learner engagement. Details were included in this project report about course material development process and tools that have used for developed the course materials, such as Articulate storyline as the authoring tool, Adobe premiere and Adobe Audition as the audio editing tool and TechSmith Camtasia as the screen recording. In this report, it is also described the course delivery to the learner and learner activity management. Next, it is described the delivery methods that have used to deliver the course work to the learners using tools such as Moodle LMS and Managing learner activities and providing help to learners. Pilot test has been carried out with limited audience in order to find out the effectiveness of the learning materials and course delivery. Finally, it is described the evaluation of the project with the learners’ feedbacks, learner experience and conclusions that were made based on evaluation findings on future improvements of the project.