Small Steps
When I was working as an Instructional Designer, I was the project manager for migrating our department from one Learning Management System (LMS) to another. We had hundreds of courses to move, and part of my job was to “sell” the new system to our instructors. To make things easier for everyone, I adopted a “Small Step” approach. I divided the six-month migration into three distinct blocks, allowing instructors to choose a block for their course migration. During each block, my team of Instructional Designers worked closely with those instructors to transfer their content, tidy it up, and teach them how to navigate the new system. Surprisingly, the migration went much smoother than I ever expected. Even the skeptics in our organization, who had doubts…