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Online learning offers a flexible and convenient way to learn new skills. But if it's not accessible to all, online learning can worsen educational inequality. It can also lead to legal risks. Section 508 requires that federal agencies make technology accessible to those with disabilities. 

For these and other reasons, it's crucial to ensure that eLearning platforms are accessible to all. 

This takes effort and planning. Learners have diverse abilities, disabilities, and learning styles. These may include:

Leo Afonso joins the d’Vinci team as a Web Developer.

In this position, Afonso will write custom PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript code for educational web applications and d’Vinci’s own Blueprint of Life product, which is designed to provide a compelling, first-of-its kind, genomics course for high school students. Working with experts internally and externally, he will bring the platform to life for a soft launch in spring of 2024. Previously, Afonso served as a business systems consultant. 

Learning and development professionals are leveraging the power of virtual reality to build immersive learning experiences. In part one of our interview, Sozo Labs CEO Jason Haddock discusses the opportunities and the challenges of VR in organizational training.

WestEd, a nationally recognized nonprofit education research and development agency, is currently seeking high school biology teachers to participate in a classroom study of dVinci Interactive's online genetics and genomics curriculum Blueprint of Life.

Say Something, a blended learning series developed for Sandy Hook Promise by d’Vinci Interactive, has been named a Cool Tool finalist by the EdTech Awards. 

Delivering a welcoming and engaging onboarding experience can positively impact your organization’s effectiveness and retention.  Wendi Walker-Schmidt, Assistant Vice President of Learning and Organizational Development at National Life Group, shares best practices that will change the way you think about new employee orientation and onboarding.

Storytelling can help learning and development professionals create and deliver more engaging and effective training.  Robyn Shumer, a global lead with Johnson & Johnson’s Mental Health Diplomats Employee Resource Group, shares how telling a personal story can inspire and educate learners.

Training Industry has named d’Vinci Interactive to its 2023 Top Training Companies™ Watch List for Custom Content Development. 

d’Vinci Interactive is an award-winning custom eLearning solutions provider that develops training solutions that empower learning audiences to improve quality and boost performance.

d’Vinci Interactive will be recognized for serving as a Mentor in Residence at the David W. Fletcher Incubator + Labs at Hagerstown Community College during the first Hagerstown Startup Week.

Team members from d’Vinci were chosen to lead educational seminars at the event on federal funding opportunities and best practices to retain and grow clients.

“We are excited about the business environment in the greater Hagerstown region and honored to continue providing mentorship to new technology-focused startups in the David W. Fletcher Incubator.”

Most L&D professionals measure training after it’s over but what if you could predict the success of a learning program in advance? Author Ken Phillips, CEO of The Phillips Group, shares how predictive learning analytics can change the learner’s experience and the outcomes for an organization.