Interested in building a learning program beyond the traditional LMS? We love creating online learning experiences on the "open, wild internet" (or on your intranet) using native HTML5, open educational resources (OERs), inexpensive collaboration tools, mobile delivery, smart speaker enabled (Alexa and Google Assistant) and xAPI for tracking metrics, scoring, and completes. This approach can be less expensive to develop, host and update. And it meets online learner expectations for flexible, mobile experiences that align with how they are already informally learning on the web. 

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Types of Online Learning We Design

• Synchronous, asynchronous, and blended learning 

• Webinar development and hosting

• Social learning strategy and tools

• Instructional blended video content (lecture / b-roll / illustrations / quiz / links / tasks)

• Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

• Small Private Online Courses (SPOCs)

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Projects We Work On

• Digital Learning Libraries of curated proprietary and Open Educational Recourses (OERs)

• Multi-month new hire curriculums, that are scaled, online, interactive and social

• Scaled, online course and curriculum design

• Instructional webinar series

• HTML5-based learning portals supported by LRS and xAPI

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Subject Matter Specialties

Quality Improvement Methodology for Service Delivery

Nonprofit Capacity Building

Adult Job Skills Training

Service Design / Lean / Human-centered Design

Onboarding Programs 

Distributed Team Management Best Practices

Leadership

Contemplative Adult Education

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Our Learner-Centered Design Paradigm

Platforms we work with: Canvas, OpenLearning, Coursera, LearnDash, Paylocity, Docebo

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Preferred instructional design model: Successive Approximation Model (SAM). We love SAM's agile orientation because it emphasizes collaboration, lean design principles, and rapid iteration. We build and test content more quickly using SAM, and we involve our clients and prospective learners in the design and testing process in order to rapidly zero-in on a memorable and engaging learning product.

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Evidenced-based adult learning principles and methods: It's a balancing act to design training content that blends client performance goals with learner needs. We're humble and experienced enough to confidently rely on evidence-based methods and strategies to guide our efforts. And we're audacious enough to experiment with crazy ideas to innovate online learning experiences forward.

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We start backwards: We begin the design process by focusing on the end-goal(s), the impact you want to make with your learning program. Then we build into each learning project measurable objectives and hands-on activities to support learning and assess training effectiveness. 

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We design for all learners: Each adult learner draws upon their own experience and perspectives and interacts with learning content and delivery mediums using their  senses, cogitative processes, and affective responses. We use strive for holistic learning experiences that provide adult learners with choice, relevant and engaging content, and rationales that communication why completing a learning program is important and useful. To this end, we use University Design for Learning (UDL) principles to guide the creation of inclusive and accessible content for learners with a range of aptitudes, abilities, experience, and motivational levels. 

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We get to know your learners' needs first:  A thorough needs analysis determines what we create. We gather information about your intended learning audience through a variety of qualitative methods appropriate for your project.

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