D3 wins a 2023 LearnX Diamond Award
The Australian training institute LearnX® recognizes Innovation Research & Training (iRT), D3 Training Solutions, and ELB Learning for the Plan My Ride eLearning Course. The Best Accessibility focuses on an eLearning project, designed, and implemented by an enterprise to ensure talent equally benefits from the learning, that uses different accessibility/usability functionalities while being compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.
The annual, international LearnX® Awards program run by the LearnX® Foundation; a not-for-profit organization promoting innovative workforce learning and supporting technologies, recognizes the most innovative projects and technology solutions of the year that drive and support learning and talent development. Projects that receive a LearnX® Award have been carefully assessed through a quality-driven process and are awarded for the value they bring to enterprises of various structures and sizes.
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 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.”
The complete list of LearnX® Live winners is available at: https://learnx.live/