Instructional design consulting for engaging online courses
Instructional Design Consulting
Curriculum Development
Outline & Content Audit
Storyboarding
Course Design
Engagement
SME Interviews
Instructional Design Consulting
From Boring to Exciting!
There’s nothing worse than watching someone teach in front of a whiteboard or a slow moving PowerPoint for two hours. Yawn!
Engaging Design
The URL dr is an instructional design company that can take your subject matter experts and academics’ jargon-filled technical documents and turn them into an easy-to-understand course with pizzazz. It’s all about telling a story and getting the learner engaged in the content.
A Variety of Elements
We’ll present your course with animation, video, quizzes, interactive elements, games, and downloads. We make learning new material fun and engaging in a mobile environment that can be consumed on-the-go or at the office.
Authoring Tools
Our team of instructional design consultants utilize a number of authoring tools to create the interactive courses that we design for clients. We’ll discuss the options with you, and help you make the best choice based on your overall goals for the course and your organization.
Articulate Rise 360
If we’re using an authoring tool like Articulate Rise 360, your online course can be designed with interactive images, sorting activities, flashcards, matching games, fill-in-the blank questions, and multiple choice quizzes. Rise files are SCORM and TINCAN compliant. We also utilize animation as a cost-effective and engaging way to add moving visuals to your course with the animation tool Vyond.
Authoring Tools: Articulate Storyline
One of the many benefits of using Storyline in corporate instructional design, is the high level of custom programming it allows. Storyline is capable of enhanced engagement, simulations, gamification, and scenario-based learning.
Voice Overs
Storyline features the ability to add voice overs and audio throughout courses. Audio can be set to automatically start playing when a learner advances to the next screen.
Importing Storyline Blocks into Rise 360
To get the best of both worlds, Storyline elements can be imported into Rise 360. This allows the custom programming functionality of Storyline with the clean, scrolling design of Rise.
Corporate Instructional Design Case Studies
McKissock Learning, a division of Colibri Group, had text-based content that needed a little “pizzazz!”
Animation to Enhance Learning
After reviewing and analyzing the learning approach, audience, LMS system, and the instructional materials that existed, The URL dr’s team of instructional design consultants, developed a new online learning course that incorporated animation and storytelling with a real estate theme that truly spoke to the students.
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FAQ's about Instructional Design Consulting Services
Curriculum Writing & Design
Yes, we can. We offer scriptwriting and course writing services at an hourly charge. We have subject matter experts on staff, and we can procure SMEs for your project if required. We can also work with your SMEs to write your course and curriculum.
Sure. Many of our customers are authors, speakers, or trainers that have a book, workbook, PowerPoint, curriculum, or a workshop that they would like to adapt into an online course. We can take whatever materials you have and adapt them for you.
E-learning courses can be anywhere from ten minutes to ten hours. It really depends on your audience and the depth of your material as to the finished seat time of your course. We’re happy to discuss the content you have and how you envision the course, which will help determine the length.
We do! We love developing material for children. Ask us for examples.
Gamification
Yes! Gamification can really enhance the learning experience. The URL dr offers KnowledgePLAY, a pre-made line of games that can significantly cut down on development time. Test drive our sample courses to see gamification in action.
Video
Yes! We can include talking head video, b-roll video, and screen capture video. We can also add your video to animation, which we call Combination or Mixed Media video and has its own rate. We can edit video you provide, as well.
Yes, we can! It can even include background music.
Absolutely. Kim Merritt, The URL dr, is our “in-house” voice talent. Her voice is available at no additional charge on video projects. If you’d like other voices, we are happy to source those for you at an additional cost. We charge you for our time to source your voices and pass back to you the cost of the individual voice over artists.
Yes, we have a catalog of royalty free music for your video.
Absolutely! We can even make custom characters for animation.
Time Frame
We suggest allowing six to twelve weeks for a course with a 30 to 60 minute seat time. Our current production schedule and how long it takes for you to provide information and feedback can impact the turnaround time of your course. For courses with multiple lessons and seat times of longer than one hour, please contact us for a quote.
The first thing we’ll have you do is fill out an onboarding questionnaire and quote form. This gives you the opportunity to tell us what you want your finished course and video to look like. We’ll need you to provide content or existing curriculum (if it exists), access to SMEs, any video footage you want to use, any graphics or images you have, your branding guide, and your logo in a .png file format.
Absolutely. E-learning projects can be daunting, especially for first timers. We offer consulting services to help you figure out what kind of learning courses to make, which LMS system to pick, how to organize your process to produce your course, how to pick assessments, etc. Contact us for a free 30 minute consult about your project.
Costs
Our e-learning creation and design services are billed at an hourly rate. Our video creation and design services are billed by the finished minute of video. Please contact us for an estimate.
Yes. We require 50% of any project upfront. We’ll bill the remaining balance in milestones throughout the project, with the balance due at the end.
Live Trainings
Sure. Many of our customers are authors, speakers, or trainers that have a book, workbook, PowerPoint, curriculum, or a workshop that they would like to adapt into an online course. Contact us and let’s discuss your project.
Yes, we can create content for live trainings, online courses, or blended learning courses.
Marketing
Yes, we can. Our company started thirteen years ago as an online marketing firm. Contact us to talk about your needs.
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In Need of Video Services?
The URL dr offers a variety of video production and animation services. To learn more about how we can help you, visit these pages on our site.
Looking to Produce an Online Course?
E-learning is an effective way to teach and train your audience. Our courses are creative, engaging, and entertaining. See what we can do for you.