Focus EduVation Announces Subscription Approach to Course Design Service

Focus EduVationis happy to announce a reimagining of its course design service. The company haslong prided itself on its prescriptive approach for different institutions,saying, “Let us know where you are at, and we will meet you there.” With today’sonline pedagogy and learning techniques, this approach, although effective,doesn’t always allow for full realization of today’s best practices. With thisin mind, Focus EduVation has added a subscription approach. For projectslooking to take advantage of the latest in course design, this is often theonly way to go.

First of all, what does “the latest in course design” mean? Theseare personalized, adaptive courses that use gamification where appropriate. Tobuild better courses, you need to have more comprehensive communication andcooperation among those who are creating the course. Most faculty use thecontent as a starting point and build the experience around that; but for thebest results with new online designs, the students’ experience needs to be thecenter of the design process. As this is a paradigm shift, Focus EduVation hascreated an alternative service model, a subscriptive one.

So how is a subscription service model different from aprescriptive service model? Often, institutions will partner with FocusEduVation to build more courses than they could build using only internalresources. In these situations, the company’s goal is usually to match theclient’s internal approach, templates, and timelines as closely as possiblewhile adding enhancements that institutions can’t create on their own. Thismodel has served Focus EduVation well, but it isn’t the best approach foradaptive and personalized content. Different design calls for a differentapproach.

In the subscription course creation model, Focus EduVationstill takes into account the bandwidth of the client’s facility andadministration, but the company directs them and guides the process closely,expanding the preproduction phase to include student-centered design concepts. Witha subscriptive design service, Focus EduVation uses design thinking techniquesto get the most out of your faculty or subject matter experts. This method ismore comprehensive, but the outcomes are worth the effort.

Adaptivity, personalization, and gamification require the subscriptionservice model to be fully utilized. This process helps Focus EduVation identifythe pain points, limitations, and abilities of your student body. Once thatpart of the preproduction phase is complete, Focus EduVation can turn tofinding the approach to those issues and how to best capitalize on theirstrengths. This process leads to a course flow document that spells out whatthe student experience will look like. Only then is content added in. Becausethis stage is delayed, the content is driven by the students’ needs, as opposedto the students’ experience being driven by the content. This approach takes aguide, one who subscribes the path that is taken. This is the new service modelFocus EduVation now offers in addition to those the company has used in thepast.

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Focus EduVation will be exhibiting next week at Learning Solutions 2017 Conference & Expo in Orlando, Florida. You can find thecompany at Booth 601.

For more information, contact Vik Aurora at [email protected].