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Best Practices for Virtual Training Events
In this episode, learn from Dr. Janet Lockhart-Jones, a Leadership Strategist, Speaker, Executive Coach, and Corporate Trainer, as she shares best practices for creating successful virtual training events. Dr. Lockhart-Jones offers the dos and don’ts for hosting your next VILT session with Powered by Learning Host Susan Cort and co-host Jenny Fedullo.
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.
d’Vinci Awarded Multi-Year GSA Contract Extension
d’Vinci Interactive is pleased to announce that its GSA Professional Services Schedule (PSS) has been extended five years until June 30th, 2025. Under this schedule, d’Vinci provides training and eLearning development, integrated marketing, educational website development, and media production services.
Since 2011, d’Vinci has provided services through the contract to agencies including the National Parks Service, the National Institutes of Health, the US Forest Service and the Administrative Offices of the US Courts.
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
Using Learning to Build Brands - Podcast
When learning programs boost the value of a company's brands, they lead to increased sales and market share. Aligning your learning with your company's brand ensures that your training connects with your mission and supports your business goals. In this first d'Vinci podcast, hear how the makers of iconic brands including Robert Mondavi Winery, SVEDKA Vodka and Corona Beer educate internal team members and commercial partners to build brands, expand distribution, and increase sales.
PA Chiefs of Police Create Course to Respond to LGBTQ+ Victims
In order to help municipal police officers better respond to victims, the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police worked with longtime learning partner d’Vinci Interactive to create the Responding to LGBTQ+ course. The course was created in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence (PCADV) with input from the PCADV Gender and Sexual Justice Caucus.
SafeSecureKids.org Recognized by International Media Competition
SafeSecureKids.org, a joint partnership between d’Vinci Interactive and Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (PCAR), received a silver Horizon Interactive Award in the Advocacy/Non-Profit Website category.
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.
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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