eLearning and New Media
Executing successful eLearning programs takes more than great content. It requires a strategic understanding of your learning resources and tasks, and how they can best relate to your audience. It takes an in-depth understanding of instructional design and also the expertise to seamlessly integrate learning objects into your learning content management and assessment systems. Spearheading the latest standards like Common Cartridge, QTI, and SCORM is an advantage, as well.
For over 15 years, SPi Global has been at the forefront of eLearning, empowering the industry’s top content providers to develop course productions that set the standard for today’s educators. We are a full-service partner that works with you throughout the entire strategic, creative, and integration processes, ensuring that your learning content exceeds today’s evolving standards. Whether your course production is designed for K-16, STM, or the corporate market—domestically or internationally—SPi Global delivers complete solutions that elevate your eLearning programs to the highest level.
Learning Management System
Whether your content focuses on basic subject matter or the most profound complexities, SPi Global has the insight required to turn your content into fully-integrated learning experiences. Our intimate knowledge of various Learning Management Systems—such as Blackboard, WebCT, ANGEL, Desire2Learn, Sakai, Moodle, and other open-source LMS—alongside our expertise in instructional design, enables us to integrate your content into virtually any LMS platform and give your cartridge a seamless flow from start to finish.
SPi Global also understands that not all LMS platforms are optimized for every learning situation. That’s why we’re experts on migrating your learning materials into different platforms so no matter which LMS platform you rely on, your cartridges will always include the content you want with the functionality you require.
Assessments
For every successful eLearning program, your assessments must work in tandem with your LMS. We ensure that your assessment content and results operate in harmony with your LMS. Whether your assessment is built into your LMS cartridge, or stands separately through another system, we give every course production a fully-integrated user experience.
As a member of the IMS Global Learning Consortium, SPi Global has been at the forefront of Common Cartridge and QTI development and adoption. By partnering with us, you’ll gain the benefits of working with an organization that has long been defining and setting the standards for eLearning.
Instructional Design
The success of any eLearning program depends on effective instructional design. Only eLearning that meets the needs of learners and stakeholders—and facilitates learning transfer, knowledge retention, and skills development— has significant value. SPi Global’s onshore and offshore experts work closely and interactively with you to develop design specifications and to storyboard your eLearning program—whether it’s an eBook or any 2D or 3D digital interactive media—in light of best practices in instructional design. Our subject matter expertise spans a wide range of domain and market segments. We also act as your liaison with developers.
Flash
Many organizations use Adobe Flash Player to allow end users to view interactive content and applications in a consistent manner across major operating systems, browsers, mobile phones, and devices. SPi Global has a team of Flash developers who can create new Flash animation for use in eBooks, Flash cards, and animations, or take existing Flash and update or maintain it. We have more than a decade of experience in a wide range of Flash technologies, including Adobe Flash and Adobe Creative Suite. Our team of graphic designers and mobile developers is also well-versed in the intricacies of cost-effective Flash conversions, which may require changes to user interfaces, design, graphics, file formats, and content treatment.
HTML5
We’re also helping our clients prepare for the future by gaining a working knowledge of HTML5 which will more readily support multimedia, from Flash animation to other online applications. HTML5 is intended to subsume not only other variations of HTML, but also programs that run on HTML, including Javascript and Flash. In the meantime, our teams will continue to develop new content products for existing HTML standards, including Flash and Javascript, with an eye on future developments. As a member of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) Consortium and the EPUB3 working group, SPi Global is actively involved in setting standards.
App Development
Forward-thinking content providers are leveraging mobile platforms to distribute their content products via interactive applications that allow consumers to perform shortcuts on their mobile devices. These small, device-specific software applications extend the utility of smartphones, offering shortcuts that engage users and give them key information, often at the point of need. In addition, many content providers want their content to be accessed as simply as possible from the device, eliminating the need to go through the browser. SPi Global has built a team to develop applications that are compatible with all major mobile device manufacturers so that we can meet this key requirement of our customers.
Mobile Content Development
As more information providers deliver content to mobile devices, we’re also helping them present content in rich media formats that incorporate audio, video, animation, and 3D; location-aware functionality, including mapping services like Google Earth; and connectivity to Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels. Using open standards, we separate content from programming, applying cross-device standards and the latest practices of interactive design.
SCORM, Common Cartridge, QTI
We can transform content to and from various formats and seamlessly distribute it across channels through our experience with a wide range of LMS and ability to work with open standards. We support SCORM, which is the de facto industry standard for eLearning interoperability. Through our membership in the IMS Global Learning Consortium, we also help shape the world’s technology standards for eLearning. We support the development and integration of industry open standards, including Common Cartridge, LTI, and QTI.
Multimedia
SPi Global can provide various levels of animation, including 2D and 3D, to bring your design specs to life. With both onshore and offshore services, we work with you closely to select the right tools and technology so that your interactive platform works across various platforms and devices.
To learn more about how SPi Global can help, contact us today.
