Neiman
Instructional Design
Giving Pet Owners Confidence with Compounded Pet Meds
Client
Creative Scripts Compounding Pharmacy
Learners
Pet owners
Challenge
Have you ever tried to get a cat to swallow a pill? Giving pets medicine is difficult.
Solution
Show the benefits of compounded meds to ease dosing. This microlesson applies Merrill's principles by showing learners a problem-solving approach.
Tools
Articulate Rise, Adobe Express, Pictochart
Scenario-based Learning to Help Women Understand Menopause Treatments
Client
Creative Scripts Compounding Pharmacy
Challenges
Women are confused about hormone therapy and its side effects and efficacy. Analysis revealed widespread misunderstanding.
Solution
Misunderstanding was dispelled with an empathetic approach that avoids medical jargon and uses average women in scenario-based
learning.
Tools
Articulate 360, Adobe Express
Microlesson to Support Sales
Client
Lift LLC
Challenges
To support sales for soup company, Eco Ladle, promoting food waste was an important way to draw in customers on its social media campaign.
Solution
A 3-minute multimodal microlesson on food waste with interactivity and consumer-oriented tips was used on Facebook exclusively.
Tools
Articulate Rise, Adobe Express, AI photo generation, AI audio with Pictory AI
Course Design, Evaluation, Assessment
Learners:
Young adults, teens, and adults.
Designed and updated more than 35 courses and 300 e-learning modules for young adults and adult learners for education and corporate markets. Create syllabi, courses, and e-learning modules: write objectives from standards utilizing Bloom's and other taxonomies, and design course structures, content, learning aides, and formative and summative assessments adhering to research-based learning theories.
Challenges
Engagement, mastery, accessibility, and completion, access to online resources for marginalized young adults. Multiple life demands by learners creates barriers to completion.
Solutions
Hierarchy of text, clear organization, simplified directions, microlessons, accessibility through UDL, multi-modal design, and frequent formative assessment. Evaluation through Quality Matters Rubrics.
Tools
Canvas, Word, PowerPoint, Studio, YouTube, Screen Cast, and multiple third-party apps for gaming, research, review, videos, and assessment
Training and Development
Learners:
Young adults, peers, and organizational leadership.
Challenges
Engage peers and leadership in new strategies and professional developmental training.
Monthly leadership and skills training with peers and administrators. Daily instruction to learners, both online and in-person. Learners generally do not want to be there and feel it is a waste of their time.
Solutions
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Conduct time-efficient training, engage immediately and ensure clarity of goals, chunk content for attainment; embed collaboration and problem solving, delivery using technology or traditional means.
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Engage learners throughout by having them "do" something: express an opinion, solve a problem, collaborate on ideas, compete, play a game, and test their understanding.
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High energy, fun, and engaging presentation style.
Tools
Webex, Zoom, Survey Techniques, LMS Canvas, Word, PowerPoint, Studio, YouTube, Screen Cast, and multiple third-party apps for gaming, research, review, videos, and assessment.
Peer Training on Adult Learning Barriers & Design Solutions (Excerpt)
Learners
Corporate leadership, Human Resource professions
Challenges
The purpose of this presentation was to train colleagues on the primary barriers of adult learners and design solutions.
Solutions
Short animation-driven PowerPoint with top learning barriers and how to overcome each with design.
Tools
PowerPoint, animation
Infographic, Training Aide
Client
Creative Scripts Compounding Pharmacy
Challenge
Educate pet owners and vets about the benefits of compounding with a printable or downloadable learning aid.
Solution
With a clean and playful style that utilizes the client's corporate colors, the learning aide expands information about illnesses compounded medications can treat. The printable learning aide also supports marketing, as a flier for vet offices.
Tools
Adobe Express and Piktochart
Mock-Up Course for Teaching Virtual Sales Tools
Learners
Sales representatives prefer phone and in-person meetings over Zoom and workplace platforms i.e. Microsoft Teams
Challenge
A logistics company shifts to a virtual work environment and "old-school" sales representatives fail to embrace virtual sales tools, resulting in the loss of sales.
Solution
The goal was to overcome adult learner barriers of tech insecurity with microlessons, and appeal to learners' competitive natures with gamification, giving choice, job relevancy and practice this e-learning module succeeds in training 'old-school' sales reps with new virtual sales tools.
Annual Training Plan for Denver Food Bank
Client
Southwest Denver Food Coalition
Challenge
With little training capacity for overworked and underfunded non-profit staff with
enormous training needs, the Southwest Denver Food Coalition desperately needed professional development and workplace training for new staff and volunteers.
Solution
Organizational relationships could be leveraged to build a training capacity for the Southwest Denver Food Coalition. Therefore, the goal of this recommendation was to aid the organization in establishing a professional training capacity by leveraging relationships with other non-profits to share materials, trainers and online materials.