Here is a sampling of some of the projects we have completed for clients.
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Client: Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario
Objective: Expand Trent’s capacity to produce high quality online courses
Approach
- Instructional designer works closely with individual faculty members to define learning outcomes and produce course scripts
- Our technology team produces rich multimedia learning environments for courses in Trent’s Blackboard / WebCT learning management system
Client: VHA Home HealthCare, Toronto, Ontario
Objective: Create a central online learning hub to provide VHA with a more efficient approach to training new front line recruits, cutting back significantly on amount of face-to-face training required
Approach
- Worked with subject matter experts within VHA to design online curriculum
- Produced 10 self-study modules, along with discussion forums and quizzing capability in the open source Moodle learning management system
Client: University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
Objective: Make faculty and staff proficient in using the University’s new online purchase requisition system, with a minimum of in-person guidance/assistance required
Approach
- Instructional designer worked closely with the University’s Purchasing Services Department to understand the online purchase requisition system
- Created an on-demand, at-the-point-of-need online training aid
- Interactive, multimedia Flash-based module demonstrates key system functionality, and also allows users to practice making a requisition and receiving instant feedback on their performance
Client: Community Foundations of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Objective: To ensure a thorough and consistent introduction across Canada for all new stakeholders (new staff and board members) in the organization
Approach
- Instructional designer worked with key stakeholders from Community Foundations Canada (CFC) to create storyboards for orientation program
- Our technology team translated these storyboards into interactive, online Flash-based orientation modules (in both English and French) that clearly lay out the CFC’s mission, values, operations, initiatives, board governance, etc.
Client: Quality Management Programs – Laboratory Services, Toronto, Ontario
Objective: Prepare medical laboratory managers and personnel for ISO 15189 accreditation
Approach
- Work closely with subject matter experts to create storyboards based on existing training materials
- Translate storyboards into a series of 15 interactive, online Flash-based modules covering all aspects of ISO 15189 accreditation for medical laboratories
Client: ENCON Group, Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Objective: ENCON, an insurance company, wishes to provide a value-added (and differentiating) service to its customers by providing them with convenient and accessible risk management educational opportunities
Approach
- Creating a series of interactive, multimedia Flash-based risk management modules (in both English and French) that ENCON clients can work through independently at their own pace
- Capturing module usage statistics and quiz completion records in a customized back-end database
- Automatic and customized certificate creation for module completions
Client: The March of Dimes, Toronto, Ontario
Objective: To cost-effectively train more than 1,000 personal support attendants across Ontario on WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System)
Approach
- Design curriculum / story-boards in consultation with March of Dimes health and safety experts
- Produce an interactive Flash-based course with a quizzing component
- Build a customized back-end database to track course completions across all divisions
Client: Lifelearn Inc., Guelph, Ontario
Objective: Provide a means to make learning materials available for purchase and access online, along with an automated tracking feature to monitor sales and usage
Approach
- Worked closely with Lifelearn stakeholders to map out their needs for an automated eCommerce system
- Created a customized eCommerce system that allows Lifelearn to post educational programs online, have clients purchase access to these resources online, and to capture all key transaction details and resource usage statistics in a back-end database
Client: ALS Society of Canada, Toronto, Ontario
Objective: Support children and youth whose families have been affected by ALS
Approach
- Worked closely with ALS subject matter experts to adapt existing one-dimensional print-based educational and support material into two engaging, interactive, multimedia support sites (one for young children, and one for teens and young adults) in both English and French
Client: VHA Home HealthCare, Toronto, Ontario
Objective: Reach front line health workers with key information on infection control measures and directions for proper use of personal protective equipment (PPEs)
Approach
- Developed storyboards in concert with subject matter experts at VHA
- Produced a series of videos that were distributed to front line health workers on DVD (can be played on computers, DVD players, or TVs)
Client: The Co-operators Group Inc., Guelph, Ontario
Objective: Map out a strategic plan for the company’s approach to learning generally and eLearning specifically that would use its resources most effectively and efficiently in ensuring its people had the information and competencies required to do their jobs
Approach
- Extensive consultations and interviews with company stakeholders
- Focus group with a cross section of learners in the company
- Quality review of existing eLearning efforts
- Production of a detailed eLearning Strategy Roadmap document
Client: Canadian Physiotherapy Association, Toronto, Ontario
Objective: Develop internal competencies to design and produce high quality eLearning
Approach
- Mentored CPA staff through a process of working with subject matter experts, writing scripts / storyboards, and authoring and producing eLearning modules on the subject of Pain Management
Client: Central CCAC, Newmarket, Ontario
Objective: Use information and computer technologies to more efficiently connect geographically dispersed staff with key information and with each other
Approach
- Worked closely with Central CCAC stakeholders to create a customized online learning resource using the open source Moodle learning management system
- Staff across the organization now connected via online learning and online communities of practice that share insights, experiences, and resources
Client: Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA), Ottawa, Ontario
Objective: Create an online resource that allows CPHA members to easily share resources and best-practice knowledge
Approach
- Worked closely with CPHA to design an intuitive online knowledge
database accessible in both English and French
- CPHA members can now leverage knowledge from members across the country
via resource sharing and online learning communities
