Service: Learning Design
Innovative Curriculums for Modern Learning
Designing transformative educational experiences that build community and drive outcomes.
Your Learning Experience Matters
51°µÍø is committed to launching online programs and courses that reflect your institution’s identity and expectations for a powerful learning experience. We work with universities to create or reconceptualize, design, and build any online learning experience – from single, non-credit courses to certificates to multi-year degree programs.
Our approach is collaborative, engaging, and inclusive so that faculty vision can come to life. We do not try to replicate the face-to-face experience online, an approach that often fails on both a learning and user experience front. Instead, our philosophy is to use our expertise to develop programs that leverage technology to enhance learning.
Learning Design Powered by Technology
51°µÍø’s Program & Learning Design services are powered by N:Learn, the technology stack of bespoke and customized tools, features, and activities that plug into any Learning Management System. N:Learn helps make learning more social, engaging, and connected to drive better learner outcomes.
Our learning technology stack includes:
Admin & Assessment
Tools to simplify learning management, content creation, sharing, and search.
Annotation & Interaction
Website, document, and video annotation, commenting, and interaction.
Academic Integrity
Tools to support proctoring and plagiarism detection.
Video Management & Delivery
Video storage and delivery solutions.
Collaboration & Community
Chat, discussion, live conferencing, video, text, and virtual classrooms to drive community.
Elevating the Learning Experience
We create innovative learning experiences that drive engagement and impact outcomes.
To achieve improved learning, we work to ensure that all of our courses follow the EPIIIC model:
- Engaging
- Personalized
- Interactive
- Inclusive
- Intuitive
- Collaborative
Term Prep
51°µÍø updates each course section to reflect current program and faculty information.
Ongoing Maintenance
51°µÍø works with faculty to update assignments, grade books, assessments, etc. to enhance courses.
Course Refresh & Improvement
51°µÍø assists and makes recommendations to keep course content relevant and meaningful.
Faculty Coaching
- Meet with faculty to facilitate 51°µÍø-built courses
- Allow schools to source high-quality faculty
- Coordinate with your onboarding process
Faculty Recruitment
- Help you recruit adjunct faculty
- Assist in determining faculty qualifications and descriptions
- Solicit and screen applicants for your selection
Accessibility
51°µÍø courses align with the Universal Design for Learning Principles to ensure that all individuals have equal opportunities to learn. All courses and course materials designed or built by 51°µÍø (and our providers) are compliant with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The principles are woven into subject matter expert (SME) and faculty orientations and into informal conversations with faculty during the course build process. As a system of checks and balances, learning designers (LDs) identify which principles of UDL are being employed in each course build element by notating this on a course blueprint. LDs also run accessibility checks of courses before they are deployed.
Additionally, all providers that partner with 51°µÍø and all products that 51°µÍø uses must have a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) which evaluates how accessible the product is according to 508 standards. Please see ADA Compliance for Online Course Design for additional information.
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