D3 and iRT win 2024 Learning Excellence Award
The United Kingdom’s Learning Excellence® Awards recognizes Innovation Research & Training (iRT), D3 Training Solutions, and ELB Learning for the Plan My Ride eLearning Course. The New Thinking and Innovation category reflects how innovative thinking may have helped in the response to learning or in an organization’s route to a sustainable future with eLearning.
The Learning Excellence Awards are business awards for the whole business training/learning and development sector. While the awards are UK-based, many overseas entries are submitted as the judging is impartial and independent; looking to reward relevant, agile, innovative, excellent and effective initiatives, programs, products and services wherever they may be found. Each year the Awards are open to in-house training, learning and development teams and activities, to external professional practitioners, and to suppliers to the sector. The Finalists and Winners for the 2024 Awards were presented with their trophies on April 16 in London.
The award was won in partnership with iRT and D3 Training Solutions using the Lectora and CenarioVR products from ELB Learning. The Plan My Ride (PMR) training program was designed to introduce a comprehensive safe driving program that focuses on improving communication and planning skills to mitigate distracted and impaired driving through 7 self-paced, interactive online training modules followed by 3 immersive 360-video branching scenarios. The learning was further reinforced through 4 mobile-friendly microlearning booster sessions that are delivered to teens at 2, 4, 6, and 8 weeks after completing the modules.
The PMR program needed to be a brief, interactive, accessible, self-paced, online program that could be delivered remotely and designed in look, feel, tone, and content to be relatable and engaging to young drivers. The program also had to show results with a change in knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about impaired driving, perceived norms, self-efficacy to avoid impaired driving, and behavioral intentions to avoid impaired driving.
Innovation Research and Training (iRT) was founded in April of 1999 by Dr. Janis Kupersmidt as a way of attempting to fill the many gaps among basic research findings, social policy, intervention, prevention programs, and clinical practice. Because of iRT’s foundation in the social, clinical social, and behavioral sciences, the company has a unique commitment to the application of the most current scientific findings, methods, and best practices to identifying and solving significant real-world problems facing children, families, communities, organizations, and other social systems.
“Access to effective, high-quality, online educational resources provides an important avenue to improve equity, standardization, and scalability for our nation’s youth,” says Research Scientist Dr. Rebecca Stelter. “The Plan My Ride program is a reflection of iRT’s dedication to providing accessible, engaging eLearning programs to overcome inequities in education quality and promote the wellbeing of youth and young adults.”
D3 Training Solutions, LLC focuses on designing, developing, and delivering courses, “the 3 D’s of” D3 Training Solutions. D3 is proud to be an SBA HUBZone Certified and Woman-Owned Small business, along with an Oklahoma Diverse (DBE-00043) and an Oklahoma Woman-owned small business (WOBC-000788), specializing in instructional design and custom eLearning development solutions, with a focus on meeting Section 508/WCAG accessibility standards. In addition to providing custom e-learning development to corporations, non-profits, and government agencies in the United States and Canada. D3 Training Solutions also assists developers in troubleshooting issues with previously developed courses.
“iRT has a proven track record of delivering high-quality online learning training programs and is committed to helping organizations and individuals enhance their skills, improve performance, and achieve their goals,” says D3 Training Solutions President Chrisanna Paxton McMillin. “I am thrilled and honored to be able to work with them on this project. Together, we approached the project with a well-organized, strategic plan, and worked closely to create the Plan My Ride program.”
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The complete list of Learning Excellence® winners is available at: https://leawards.co.uk/results-2024/