CUSTOM COURSEWARE DEVELOPMENT
Learning innovation is nothing but creating learning that adapts to a learner’s learning style; where learner, and not technology, is at the center of the learning experience.
Are the typical cookie-cutter learning programs diluting your learners’ learning experience?
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Why let your learners suffer through these boring learning sessions when you can turn around courses that can be uniquely designed and one that are not cranked out using a mould, thereby tipping the visual design, interaction and engagement scale for your learners?
It is most commonly seen that organizations, especially training divisions within corporates, prefer pre-built off-the-shelf courses or employ rapidly authored content along pre-built templates to cater to their training needs. No doubt that such courses can be both cost-effective and time-efficient. But are they effective enough to meet your learners’ learning needs?
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Every business has unique business objectives, and so do learners - irrespective of whether they are internal to your organization or external ones. Obviously, a one-size-fits-all styled templatized learning design may not cut it, and each needs the learning solution to address their individual business and learning needs to the extent possible.
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Custom learning development offers a way out of this perplexity that many learning organizations face. Based on the premise that eLearning is way above just static slides and lecture sessions, custom learning addresses learning design, development and delivery with the learner needs in mind.
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From understanding learner needs to devise of individualized learning paths for unique audiences, custom learning solutions offer the right resources that can make learning more effective and rewarding. Using custom learning development methods, a business can bring to life learning solutions that have all the ingredients of an interactive learning module including responsiveness, interactive learning resources, multimedia assets, pre- and post-assessments, learning widgets and much more. From standalone learning modules to native and hybrid learning apps, this method offers a wide spectrum of development.
Why Choose Conscience for Custom Courseware Development?
With a wealth of experience working with a varied client base of different sizes and varying needs, Conscience has been engaged in creating compelling customized learning solutions tailored to the learning needs, objectives and strategy of the audience at large.
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Having worked with leading colleges and universities, training companies, publishers and large corporates with a culturally and linguistically varied workforce and target audience, our custom learning development team has grown in their skills and expertise to deliver customized solutions that cannot just be deployed over multiple platforms and devices but allows for an on-the-go learning experience.
CUSTOM COURSEWARE DEVELOPMENT AT CONSCIENCE
Our typical custom courseware development projects start with the identification of your business and learner needs, with due cognizance to the challenges unique to your business and your audiences. After a careful learners’ needs analysis, our Learning Experts make recommendations on the most suitable approach for your target audience – whether instructor-led, self-paced learning or a blended custom approach to learning would be most appropriate.
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Once the decision on the learning delivery has been made, the Instructional Design team in collaboration with our Design Studio Experts designs a learning solution tailor-made to the needs and learning objectives identified. Our Instructional Designers use interactive elements such as graphics and themes, interactive multimedia assets, scenarios and games to make the learning solution engaging and learning retentive for the learners.
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Our multi-skilled Courseware team then uses these designs in conjunction with custom standardized activities and custom SVG animation development tools and technologies to build create custom HTML5 based learning solutions that could include simulations, games, Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) exercises, web and native Learning Apps and HTML5 learning widgets or to convert existing legacy content in Flash to HTML5.
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The choice of the tool is largely made based on the target devices and the complexity of interactions and animations that a solution demand. For instance, decisions like the requirement of GPU acceleration to support memory usage to produce junk free smooth (60 FPS) animations, drive the decision of the tool of choice.
Some of the tools that the custom development team at Conscience uses to build custom interactives include:
CSS3 techniques for responsive and performant animations (from effects to keyframe transitions) using libraries like animate.css and preprocessors like LESS/SASS and Bootstrap.
JavaScript and ActionScript libraries like GSAP/Velocity using techniques like sprites, DOM animations, request Animation Frame and Web Animation API.
HTML5 Canvas and HTML5 Animation IDEs using Create.JS/Zim.JS, including Fabric.js and Paper.JS for drawing and creating complex interactions and animations for fixed size.
SVG tools such as Snap.JS or GSAP using techniques like SMIL or Adobe Animate CC for creating scalable animations.
WebGL using libraries like Three.Js/Pixi.js or even Phaser.js (for games like interactivities or simulations) for 2D and 3D animations, complex games and simulations.
Once the requisite tool is identified, our teams use Angular to create a framework incorporating Angular Animations, GSAP or CSS to create custom interactive elements and animations, the HTML5 player and interaction templates from scratch to translate the core knowledge in an engaging and impactful way.
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In several projects in the past, our team has also crafted custom courseware and interactive solutions using Backbone, Handlebars, LESS-preprocessed CSS, jQuery and Underscore, which continue to be a good fit for certain types of custom courseware development. For solutions that demand more animation-intensive learning content, we work with Adobe Animate CC, export sprite sheets and use Create.JS/Zim.JS for HTML5 Canvas or SnapSVG for SVG sprites.
