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Training Industry has named d'Vinci Interactive to its 2021 Content Development Watch List in recognition of the best providers of training services and technologies.

d'Vinci develops learning experiences, educational websites and web and mobile applications for corporate, government, medical and K-12 educational content clients.

"It's great to be recognized for developing custom learning solutions. It's what we love to do – create learning experiences that deliver extraordinary outcomes for our partners and clients," said d'Vinci CEO Luke Kempski.

d'Vinci has received the 2021 Gold Hermes Creative Award for Web-Based Training for the Opioid Awareness Seminar course it created for the Northeast Counterdrug Training Center (NCTC) and the Pennsylvania Counterdrug Joint Training Center (PA-CJTF).

JPL and d'Vinci Director of Communications Susan Cort has been named as a Central Penn Business Journal 2021 Women of Influence honoree. For more than 15 years, Susan has led JPL's communications and community outreach, helping the agency build a positive reputation and earn recognition as one of the Best Places to Work in Pennsylvania each year.

As part of its ongoing commitment to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion, d'Vinci Interactive and its parent company, JPL, have planned several initiatives to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community during Pride Month.

"We encourage our team members to take time this month and throughout the year to celebrate the diverse voices that make our agency strong," said JPL and d'Vinci President & CEO Luke Kempski. "We want to ensure that our workplaces and our work reflect the perspectives of those who identify with the LGBTQ+ community," he added.

Whether you are developing an instructor-led curriculum or an eLearning course, performance scenarios can help your audience climb Bloom’s Taxonomy to a higher level of learning. Performance scenarios challenge learners in a safe environment – your training – to cultivate their decision-making abilities. Scenarios support them in assessing situations, formulating their own perceptions, and choosing their response. The best part? You can reveal how their responses may result in different outcomes, creating a holistic learning experience.

I recently presented "Level Set and Level Up: A Learner-Centric Approach to Training in a Virtual Environment," with Constellation Brands' Director of Learning & Development Maggie Romanovich at the Training Industry Conference & Expo. In our session, we provided practical techniques for allowing learners to customize their own training experience to increase their personal investment in their learning journey. To do this, we examined a case study of training Constellation Brands' sales audience using a learner-centric, multifaceted approach.

As learning and development professionals, we are always looking for ways to connect with our audience and boost learner engagement. Animated videos with characters can help us achieve this goal.

In order to help municipal police officers better respond to victims, the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police worked with longtime learning partner d’Vinci Interactive to create the Responding to LGBTQ+ course. The course was created in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence (PCADV) with input from the PCADV Gender and Sexual Justice Caucus.

Educators and parents now have a way to teach children about their rights and responsibilities as digital citizens in Navigating the Digital Universe, a new curriculum developed by SAE International's A World In Motion® (AWIM) and d'Vinci Interactive. This exciting new educational solution builds upon AWIM's nationally-recognized PreK-8 STEM education programming.

Video interviews can be an effective approach to reaching your learning audience.

Here is an example of how we used interviews in an online learning experience we created.