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The IR-4 Project contracted with Rhombus Learning to create two instructional videos for their stakeholders. The topics of these two videos were “Submitting a Project Clearance Request” and “Nominating Projects for the Food Use Workshop” After the first video was complete, we received the following note from IR-4 – “Thanks again for the great work […]

Rhombus Learning, in conjunction with Faculty Fellows at the UNC System Digital Learning Initiative and UNC-TV, led the design and development of a 20-hour workshop for the UNC System called, Designing Effective Online Courses. The workshop has been delivered to thousands of faculty and staff across the State of North Carolina to help them prepare […]

Rhombus Learning worked with the Kenan Fellows to create the STEMwork Professional Learning Institute – a blended learning experience to facilitate North Carolina K-12 educators in establishing and sustaining education/business partnerships with local STEM employers. It also provides a framework for taking those partnerships into the classroom through project-based learning. STEMwork consisted of eight online […]

Rhombus Learning designed and developed three courses for Teach for America’s core members on the Science of Reading. Topics included reading comprehension, language comprehension and word recognition. The courses were developed in Articulate Rise and incorporated a mixture of text, images, video, infographics, Mentimeter polls, knowledge checks, and Storyline interactives.

As part of the lab for an introductory textiles course, students needed to identify fiber types and fiber characteristics under various microscopic conditions as well as correctly use a micrometer to aid in measurement and identification. This traditionally was completed in a lab where compound microscopes were limited and students had to take turns in […]

This Moodle course shell was created for the launch of the Jenkins Online MBA at NC State University as an opportunity to create some consistency across courses, both visually and pedagogically. It included instructional templates, design templates and some content and assignment examples from other courses. The shell could easily be imported into individual course […]

This map annotation tool was created for the course, Major British Writers, at NC State University. Working with a team of developers, we created a custom map annotation tool that allowed students to annotate a historical map of London and bring context to the works of literature they were reading. We worked with the British […]

We developed a series of iPad App demonstrations for a large pharmaceutical company. These demos walk sales reps through how to use the company apps and present scenarios in which the apps would be beneficial. Originally, the company had recorded videos of someone walking through the app but the glare on the iPad screen made […]

This interactive PDF was created for a course on Complexity for UNC Executive Development. Participants download the Complexity Canvas at the beginning of the course and then are prompted to fill in parts of it at different stages within the course. The first page serves as a navigation menu to the rest of the PDF […]

This interactive was created for a Data Analytics course. When learners click each marker on the map, they learn more about how data analytics are used by Disney in those park attractions. For example, when they click on Cinderella’s Castle, they learn about the operational command center that is reported to be below Cinderella’s Castle […]