The rapidly proliferation of smart devices such as tablets, smartphones, and eReaders make it challenging to satisfy growing appetites for smart digital content.VirtuAlpha’s content development team have good experience in all levels of the publishing and education industries.The team produces custom materials and assessments which can be align with any educational frameworks or national standards.
From product documentation and training to books, magazines, research reports, and financial data, the information traditionally delivered via print or simple digital files must now be created, edited, enriched, and packaged for new formats and devices.
To meet these challenges it requires agile editorial and production capabilities and the right mix of digital content and technology expertise. But building and sustaining this capability in-house can be costly and frustrating—new devices, evolving content-formatting standards, and condensed product life cycles routinely change the rules of the game.
VirtuAlpha’s wide-ranging subject matter experts deploy smart content technologies across every aspect of production—and produce the entire spectrum of digital end products, including eBooks, apps, websites, and eMagazines.VirtuAlpha’s digital content solutions deliver measurable results while minimizing operating costs and overhead.
VirtuAlpha partners with higher education organizations to develop interactive and engaging products demonstrating a holistic approach to learning. We have built many online courses and designed custom interactive media for higher education.
Across-disciplinary higher education team with a comprehensive mastery of e-learning design a partnership with the higher education organization’s internal staff for every step of the curriculum development process a range of services including assessment, online learning, competency-based education, and curriculum development deep expertise regarding current online learning technologies and opportunities for integration
VirtuAlpha designs innovative and cost-effective professional development training materials for corporate, non-profit, and education clients. We know how to leverage learning sciences best practices to create engaging professional development activities for busy and reluctant adult learners.
Do you really need to pay a full-time instructional designer to oversee your workforce development program? VirtuAlpha can provide professional development training materials for a fraction of the cost. Smart companies are mindful of the need to both expand their workforce, and to ensure that the skills of their current employees are aligned with corporate objectives on an ongoing basis. Mastering new information—and discarding old, outdated content—can be a challenging task, especially for an experienced (and often reluctant) learner. Unlike most user experience and instructional design agencies, VirtuAlpha’ work is deeply rooted in the learning sciences. We understand that successful effective professional development, learning and retention hinges on engaging the learner’s unique cognitive and behavioral dispositions. VirtuAlpha’ Learning Experience Design™ team works with in-house experts and client services managers to ensure that our workforce training products meet professional development strategies and workforce education needs in a way that user experience design practices alone cannot.
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The VirtuAlpha content team team will tell you that whatever your goals may be, you need a good game plan. The same is true for accessibility. Rather than wasting time and resources patching together an “accessible version” of your content, let us guide your curriculum content development through the lens of pedagogical accessibility. Not only will we use many of the best practices employed by major accessibility auditing and maintenance companies, but we curate accessible content for learners, with their learning journey in mind.
Learning Experience Design —a synthesis of instructional design, educational pedagogy, neuroscience, social sciences, design thinking, and UI/UX—is critical for any organization looking to compete in the modern educational marketplace. Today, publishers, new start-ups, technology companies, and school districts are all vying for limited market share. And VirtuAlpha’ Learning Experience Design team provides smart organizations an edge over the competition by identifying and testing product risks early in the development cycle—avoiding costly changes during the more expensive production phase. The team focuses holistically on the product, the learner, and—unlike much of our competition—the learner’s peers and environment. This holistic approach produces learning experiences that are novel, engaging, impactful, and memorable. Learning Experience Design influences all phases of a project, from initial discovery phase, rapid prototyping, evidence-based learning, and concept refinement to rigorous learner testing and production oversight. From the developmental challenges of pre-K–12 learning, to the expanding online higher education market or the effective, low-cost designing of professional development materials, the Learning Experience Design team at VirtuAlpha is eager to work with you to create the most competitive learning materials in the marketplace.
VirtuAlpha’ Learning Experience Design can help demystify both the unique needs of CBL learners and the learning environment that serves them. Competency-based learning or competency-based education (CBL) emphasizes demonstration of individual student mastery of specific skills over how much time a student spends “covering” a subject during a semester. This student-centered approach is already disrupting higher education and professional development practices as classrooms are blended with—or replaced by—a personalized learning model that requires a reimagining of content, assessment, and new methods for engaging students.
The appeal of CBL can extend to “traditional” K–16 and “non-traditional” learners alike. As the needs and demands of society—and the technology landscape—constantly change it has become clear that an increasing number of learners will benefit from flexible, self-paced educational options. Creating powerful and effective CBL, however, comes with very real challenges. How can you provide support for CBL learners who progress at their own pace, freed from classroom constraints—and from a standardized calendar? How can you develop rigorous assessments that accurately represent student mastery and also align with market demands?
VirtuAlpha is an industry expert at creating flexible learning experience solutions that address learner needs. The world changes quickly, and we know we can’t just rely on what has worked in the past. Our work is driven by cutting-edge educational research and evidence-based development practices based on interviews, focus groups, and observational data collection. Our practices ensure that we can holistically address the needs of the whole CBL student by reimagining course content, platform design, and delivery systems.
The Digital Media Development team creates intuitive, engaging interfaces that allow learners to avoid frustrating technological hurdles and get straight to the learning experience.The team in charge of user experience / user interface (UX/UI) oversees every step of the iterative prototyping process to ensure seamless design and avoid costly fixes later in the process.
At VirtuAlpha, we believe in creating products that are both aesthetically pleasing and easy to use. We understand the importance of comprehensive UX design principles, and we use them to build outstanding pre-K–12, higher ed, and professional development products. The work of the Digital Media Development team at VirtuAlpha is driven by heuristic practices and user testing to produce interfaces that are intuitive, so learners of all ages can easily engage with them. We employ iterative testing to understand learners, then use that understanding in the production of storyboards, wireframes, prototypes, and the alpha, beta, and gold product builds. At VirtuAlpha, our Digital Media Development team frequently works in LMS, CMS, and SaaS environments; we can also adapt our approach to suit specific technological and educational requirements. Our technology is invisible, enabling learners to connect with content—with delight, and without
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