Consulting
Extending the informational exchange process and optimizing existing resources is a real challenge in today’s work and instructional environment. Organizations are confronted with creating an ideal blend that incorporates online learning, live- and distance-delivered programs while at the same must accelerate knowledge transfer and drive business growth.
eLearning Innovations, Inc. makes this process easy, applicable, and practical. By engaging our professional consulting team to evaluate your present situation, develop a corporate learning plan, and manage the deployment of the plan can ensure the best results. You can count on our extensive experience in the distance learning business to reduce your risks and ensure your success.
Whether you’re responsible for training employees or customers, you need to transfer information to as many learners as possible while using your resources most efficiently. In order to accomplish this objective your organization must continually strive to extend its reach, while enhancing the richness of the learning experience. Technology today provides an array of tools to help meet this objective.
However, having the infrastructure is one thing; knowing how to use it — and to do so effectively — is another.
Simply installing a Learning Management System or purchasing online training from a third party is only part of the answer. To achieve breakthrough business results and gain a competitive edge through training requires careful alignment of your business objectives with your training programs. Selecting the appropriate technologies, monitoring the results, preparing your staff, preparing and delivering your content, and initiating continual improvement strategies are the ingredients to ensure your success.
The eLearning Innovations consulting team and their services for elearning Program Development and Organizational Implementation can help advise and guide your organization through the process.
Best Practices Based on Experience
Consulting Services from eLearning Innovations represent an accumulation of decades of experiences and wisdom in delivering education and training using diverse learning technologies. Based on these experiences and their work with hundreds of clients, eLearning Innovations has created best practices, models, processes, and metrics to ensure the implementation of new learning approaches that deliver rapid and dramatic business results.
Whether you want to completely transform your learning environment or simply solve a specific learning challenge, the results can be dramatic. Savings in time and travel cost, while generally substantial, are only a fraction of the value that can realized. Today, it is vital for employees and customers to have the right information, at the right time, regardless of where you or they are located.
eLearning Innovations provides Consulting Services in the following areas:
Program Development
This consulting service helps design an optimal approach for your educational and training programs and takes into account your existing processes and the specific requirements of your organization related to programming. The following areas are analyzed and evaluated:
Organization Preparedness: how well are your organization’s goals aligned with your current processes and learning product offerings? Are the metrics you are currently using enabling you to monitor your performance against your ROI goals?
Instructor Preparedness: we take a look at their tools and skill levels with various tools, examine their use of best practices in elearning, and study interactions with learners, course/content developers and subject matter experts.
Course/ Content Development: we examine your course development process from the needs analysis phase to the metrics of development and delivery. We look at the development tools you use, the staff who are engaged, and the reusability of the content. eLearning Innovations also examines the learning aids that are developed — are they effective, engaging and appropriate for the delivery method?
Audience/ Learner Analysis: understanding your audience (learners & their learning styles) is imperative to your success. We look at different audiences that you are instructing and their comfort levels with technology-based learning. We identify their concerns and document your and their successes through various modes of feedback and evaluation.
Upon completion of a consulting assignment, eLearning Innovations provides formal written reports and oral presentations that review findings and itemize recommendations for starting points, improvements, and solutions to the most perplexing learning issues.
Consulting Fees (fixed price) ~ Program Development
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Consulting Task |
Per Item Fee |
Total (or estimated total range) |
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Interviews (estimated minimum of 15-20 individual interviews |
$ 750.00 per interview |
$15,000 |
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Written Report & In-person Presentation |
$ 7,000.00 |
$ 7,000.00 |
|
Travel & Expenses (2 members of consulting team) |
To be determined by project location Will meet Federal Government guidelines |
All travel-related expenses approved by contracting agency. |
Organizational Implementation
What does your organization need to do in order to implement technology-based learning? Or, expand a current approach to be more contemporary or to be more versatile? What forms of technology-based learning best meet your organizational requirements? What steps need to be undertaken to accomplish learning goals and purposes? What timelines should be anticipated? When can we realize results? How will we measure those results? The eLearning Innovations consulting team helps guide your organization through learning and educational change. Our approach is proven, and our consultants take the utmost care to coordinate with your organization’s managers and executives to achieve the best results. In this area, the following services are included:
Assessment: the current situation is examined in terms of dissatisfactions and opportunities. Specific business result domains are identified.
Recommendations and Learning Innovation Plan: the optimal path to success is determined along with specific roles, responsibilities and timelines.
Implementation: we will provide a roadmap and a proven ability to get you to your destination. The project activities are executed, managed and delivered in alignment with the Learning Innovation Plan.
Management Opportunities: behavioral and organizational change and process changes manage to ensure success.
Economics and Optimization: your Return on Learning Innovation Investment will be measured and improvement programs will be established.
A minimum of 15-20 individual and group interviews are conducted with executives, customers, stakeholders, and attendees to gather information and feedback to analyze the organization’s learning, instructor effectiveness, course development methods, and the target audiences. Approximately three weeks after the interviews, findings and recommendations are presented by the eLearning innovations consulting team through written and in-person presentation.
Consulting Fees (fixed price) ~ Organizational Implementation
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Consulting Task |
Per Item Fee |
Total (or estimated total range) |
|
Interviews (estimated minimum of 15-20 individual interviews |
$ 500 per interview |
$ 7,500.00 – $ 10,000.00 |
|
Written Report & In-person Presentation |
$ 5,000.00 |
$ 5,000.00 |
|
Travel & Expenses (2 members of consulting team) |
To be determined by project location Will meet Federal Government guidelines |
All travel-related expenses approved by contracting agency. |
