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July 27, 2021 | Thinking

Upgrading Your Educational Website to Drupal 8 or 9

As the end of 2021 comes into view, it's time for Drupal 7 users to start planning their upgrade to Drupal 8 or Drupal 9.

With Drupal 7 reaching end-of-life in November 2022, upgrading early is the best way to avoid the security vulnerabilities that come with unsupported software and take advantage of improvements to backend modules, faster page load speeds and a more user-friendly content management interface.

Don't Just Lift and Shift – Lift and Improve

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May 11, 2021 | Thinking

Level Set and Level Up: A Learner-Centric Approach to Training in a Virtual Environment

I recently presented "Level Set and Level Up: A Learner-Centric Approach to Training in a Virtual Environment," with Constellation Brands' Director of Learning & Development Maggie Romanovich at the Training Industry Conference & Expo. In our session, we provided practical techniques for allowing learners to customize their own training experience to increase their personal investment in their learning journey. To do this, we examined a case study of training Constellation Brands' sales audience using a learner-centric, multifaceted approach.

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April 20, 2021 | Thinking

Government Agencies use eLearning for Targeted Public Outreach

Whether it is protecting the environment, regulating an industry, distributing benefits or preventing fraud, government agencies need cooperation and compliance from an educated public to be effective. Accomplishing this education is often challenging due to the schedules and geographic location of the people the agency is trying to reach.

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April 12, 2021 | Thinking

Measuring Training Results is Easier Than You Think

As training professionals know, The Kirkpatrick Model is the gold standard for evaluating the effectiveness of training. Their methodology is broken into four levels:

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April 2, 2021 | Thinking

Integrating a Specialized eLearning Course and LMS

Organizations frequently need to train and certify external target audiences in a specific subject matter area. They need to deliver a custom eLearning experience, an on-line assessment and a certificate of completion, usually for compliance purposes. In many cases, these organizations and their targeted learners do not have a common learning platform established to deliver and track eLearning.

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November 25, 2020 | Thinking

A Commitment to Progress

Market-winning ideas come from people working in businesses with diverse and inclusive cultures.

For those of us in learning solutions and technology companies, we know that talented people with different perspectives make our work more engaging and influential across diverse audiences. More importantly, we understand that the learning experiences we develop can raise consciousness and create positive change.

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May 18, 2020 | Thinking

Performance Scenarios: What would you do?

Whether you are developing an instructor-led curriculum or an eLearning course, performance scenarios can help your audience climb Bloom’s Taxonomy to a higher level of learning. Performance scenarios challenge learners in a safe environment – your training – to cultivate their decision-making abilities. Scenarios support them in assessing situations, formulating their own perceptions, and choosing their response. The best part? You can reveal how their responses may result in different outcomes, creating a holistic learning experience.

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May 7, 2020 | Thinking

Boost Learning Engagement with Animated Characters

As learning and development professionals, we are always looking for ways to connect with our audience and boost learner engagement. Animated videos with characters can help us achieve this goal.

At d’Vinci Interactive, we create learning solutions for both K-12 and adult learners. We leverage animated characters to:

Tell stories with powerful messages

Create emotional connections

Foster fun, safe places to explore complicated topics

Provide learners with a guide or host

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May 1, 2020 | Thinking

Four Tips for Integrating Video Interviews in Training

Video interviews can be an effective approach to reaching your learning audience.

Here is an example of how we used interviews in an online learning experience we created.

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April 27, 2020 | Thinking

Using Video to Engage and Educate Learners

We live in a video-driven culture. For example, today I woke up and opened the news app on my smartphone and watched several short video segments to catch me up on today’s current events. Then, after breakfast, I looked up a YouTube tutorial on how to fix my broken sink. When I finished, my daughter showed me her new smokey-eye from the make-up tutorial she watched from her favorite blogger. And later, we both relaxed by watching a new docuseries on Netflix. Every piece of content I consumed today contained a video element.

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