Overcoming Poopy e-Learning: How to Effectively Evaluate "e"

Once upon a time there was a young instructional designer named Pearl White. She was all alone in the Training Department and was handed access to an online course by the H.R. Queen (who – it should be noted – was not at all wicked).

"Pearl," she said, "Since you are the only member of our Training Department, can you evaluate this online course for me, to see if we should spend our company's precious 'apples' on it?"

"Errrr, ummm, sure H.R. Queen," Pearl replied, having zero clue what makes ...