Curriculum · Faculty · Accessibility
Modern learning design for higher education
We partner with universities, colleges, and academic departments to build courses that are effective, accessible, and genuinely engaging for today's students. The work starts with the problem you are trying to solve, not a product we are trying to sell.
Higher education teams we've worked with
What we solve
The problems we hear most
Most engagements start with one of these three.
Good content students quietly ignore
Courses packed with valuable material that never lands online, because moving a PDF into the LMS is not the same as designing for how students learn.
How we convert coursesGreat experts, uneven online courses
Being a leading subject matter expert does not automatically make someone an expert in digital pedagogy. Left unsupported, that gap shows up as inconsistent quality and faculty burnout.
How we develop facultyAccessibility you are hoping no one tests
Section 508 and WCAG are legal requirements, not nice-to-haves. Waiting for a complaint to take them seriously is a risk you can design your way out of instead.
How we fix accessibility
Curriculum & course conversion
Modernize your curriculum
We see beyond just moving PDFs online. We partner with your faculty to thoughtfully redesign courses for hybrid and online environments, grounding every decision in sound pedagogy and putting the student experience first.
- Objective-driven design
- We start with the 'why.' We partner with your SMEs to run a deep needs analysis, map content to measurable learning objectives, and build a curriculum that stays focused on the goal instead of covering everything.
- Engaging content creation
- We fight 'click-next' fatigue by turning static documents into active learning: scenario-based decisions, custom graphics, and interaction that earns its place by improving retention.
- Full course conversion
- We can handle the technical build end to end, converting your syllabi, lecture notes, and classroom activities into a polished online course, tested and ready for seamless LMS integration.
Convert your course
Don't trap valuable knowledge in a format that students ignore. Let us help you redesign it into a course students finish.
Faculty development
Empower your educators
Your faculty are your most valuable asset, but subject-matter expertise does not automatically translate to digital pedagogy. We bridge that gap with practical, targeted training built to grow confidence and capability, not to check a PD box.
- Custom online training
- Self-paced eLearning modules and practical job aids tailored to your institution, giving faculty 24/7 access to training on everything from LMS best practices to accessible course design.
- Interactive workshops
- Live, facilitated online sessions for a hands-on approach, focused on collaborative problem-solving and skill-building in digital pedagogy and engaging student activities.
- Coaching & support
- Personalized, one-on-one coaching for instructors who need targeted help with a specific redesign challenge, a piece of technology, or simply building lasting confidence in the digital classroom.
Develop your faculty
Don't let faculty burnout and inconsistent standards define your online programs. Let us help your instructors teach online with confidence.
Audit & remediation
Accessibility that holds up
Accessible content is an ethical commitment and a legal requirement. Navigating Section 508 and WCAG can be daunting, and ignoring it exposes your institution to financial and reputational risk. We audit, remediate, and design so your courses are compliant, inclusive, and equitable for everyone.
- Full accessibility audits
- A thorough audit of your existing courses against the latest WCAG AA and Section 508 standards, returned as a detailed report, from color contrast and alt text to keyboard navigation and screen reader compatibility, with a prioritized action plan.
- Course remediation
- We work through your existing courses to fix the issues directly, from rewriting content and restructuring layouts to editing source files in Articulate Storyline or Parta, and hand back an updated, compliant package.
- Accessible design & VPAT
- Proactive compliance is the best strategy. We build accessibility in from the design phase, and can develop a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) to formally document where your course stands.
Audit your accessibility
Don't wait for a complaint to make accessibility a priority. Let us help you get ahead of compliance instead of chasing it.
How we think about it
We diagnose before we build
A course conversion, a faculty workshop, an accessibility audit: those are tools, not the point. The point is the result you need, whether that is students who finish a course they used to drop, faculty who teach online without dreading it, or programs that are compliant before anyone files a complaint.
So we start by understanding your faculty, your students, and what is going wrong before we recommend anything. Sometimes that means the course redesign you asked for. Sometimes it means a smaller, sharper fix that gets you further. Either way, you get our honest read, grounded in pedagogy and tied to outcomes you can measure.
How we work
A collaborative approach
Every engagement runs on our 5D Spiral, adapted for higher ed. It is a transparent, iterative partnership built to hit your specific goals and budget, where each loop gets you closer to the outcome instead of repeating the same lap.
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Define
We pin down the underlying problem before touching a course: what is breaking for your faculty and students. Knowledge gap, design gap, or accessibility gap, we name it first so the work targets a measurable outcome.
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Design
We draw the blueprint, a curriculum plan and instructional strategy grounded in sound pedagogy and Quality Matters standards, with the success metrics and Section 508 and WCAG requirements set from day one.
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Develop
We build with you, not for you, in iterative cycles. You get direct access and constant feedback loops, and we turn static content into active, scenario-based learning that earns its place by improving retention.
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Drive
Launch is the start, not the finish. We handle the technical build and LMS integration, then watch usage against the goals we set and pivot anything that is not landing for students.
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Determine
We measure against the outcomes we defined up front, not just completion rates. Then we train your team on modern authoring tools so they can sustain and extend the work for years, instead of depending on us.