How Long Does It Take To Create An Hour Of Training

I've been looking at this over the past few weeks as the move to working from home due to #covid19 as rasied the question of more remote training. I've delivered best practice remotely, been part of many 1 hour sessions delivered by others and also plenty of online meetings. I'm also woking through my Level 5 CIPD L&D Consultant / Business Partner Apprenticeship which is a distance learning course with much of the content delivered in a MOOC style format.

My intial thoughts when creating a piece of face to face learning is to apply the rule of 1 hour of delivery takes 10 hours to create. This assumes the trainer knows the content reasonably well and has the tools to do the job. Thus the design, creation, activities, evaluation, trainers notes, materials are all in that 10 hours. I have expereince of creating software simulations and again know that a 3 min simulation can easily take 3 hours to fully create so its clear, branded and looks professional.

My suspions that its going to take longer to create remote training look founded in the article 'Estimating time to develop training' from www.thetrainingaide.com. Many in-house trainers of organisations are of face to face skillsets so moving this across to a remote way of working is going to be a challenge. I wonder if stakeholders think its just running another meeting and thus surely saves time. But add in the delivery time whereby trainers not only have to present the information but may need to be on standby afterwards for support etc, is just the same possibly as face to face. then add in the IT infrastructure and I belive much of the content should be available offline in case of network issues.

#covid19 has certainly bought a challenge to us all, and in the L&D sector for some of us a very different one.

The article here about 'Estimating time to develop training'makes for good reading and provides some very useful statistics on the delivery of face to face and e-learning.