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Christine Kurtz joins d'Vinci as a project manager/instructional designer. Kurtz brings a blend of project management and instructional design skills to the team and is focused on helping clients create engaging, successful training courses. Previously, she worked as a solution architect using technology to develop and deliver leadership training to leading global corporations. She holds a bachelor of arts in English with a minor in Spanish from Susquehanna University and resides in Harrisburg, PA.

The Videographer Awards has recognized the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police and d’Vinci Interactive for its use of video in training officers how to respond to veterans in crisis. Through poignant video interviews, veterans provide firsthand accounts of their experiences to give police officers insights and suggestions when intervening with vets whose distress may lead to crisis situations.

​ d'Vinci recently sponsored the first Training Industry Virtual Conference, Learning Technology - Challenges and Opportunities for Business Growth. More than one thousand learning leaders registered for the multi-hour event that featured speakers from Walmart, Chevron Corporation, The Hershey Company and other organizations.

Just in time for back-to-school, Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) has launched a new online portal to help educators, parents and community volunteers with reading and literacy outreach. d’Vinci Interactive partnered with RIF to create Literacy Central, featuring thousands of free digital resources that support popular children’s books.

The prestigious Parents’ Choice Awards recognized d’Vinci Interactive and PBS LearningMedia with a top award for the online educational experience, the Electoral Decoder.

Digital explorations that motivate kids to recycle. Games that encourage girls to consider STEM careers. Interactive learning experiences about the science behind race.

Educational games can change the way students think and behave, and that reality is leading to interesting collaborations for sponsored educational content, especially for materials aimed at the K-12 audience.

Whether your organization is a non-profit or a business, if you have a message to communicate to children or young adults – you can sponsor a high-quality educational learning experience.

Training Industry has named d’Vinci Interactive to the 2017 Content Development Watch List. The list is part of Training Industry’s mission to continually monitor the training marketplace for the best providers of training services and technologies.

The Content Development Watch List includes 20 companies that demonstrate excellence in innovation, industry visibility, ability to develop and deliver multiple types of content, depth and breadth of subject matter expertise, quality of clients and geographic reach.

d’Vinci Interactive has released four interactive eLearning courses and assessment tools as part of a National Library of Medicine (NLM) grant-funded project. The eLearning modules and assessments were created in partnership with POZ, an award-winning print and online information source for people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, and the NLM HIV/AIDS Community Information Outreach Program.

Developer Wendi Swanson and Client Solutions Consultant Tom Kristich have joined the d’Vinci team.

Besides being an instructional design practitioner, Connie Malamed has spent years sharing actionable strategies, practical content, product reviews and resources to help others through her website, “The eLearning Coach.” We recently interviewed Connie to gain her perspective on how the instructional design profession is evolving.