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IR-4 Demo Videos
The IR-4 Project contracted with Rhombus Learning to create four instructional videos for their stakeholders. The topics of these videos were Submitting a Project Clearance Request, Nominating Projects for the Food Use Workshop, The Food Use Workshop Process, and The IR-4 Priority Upgrade Proposal. After the first video was complete, we received the following note…
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UNC System Course on Designing Effective Online Courses
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…
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STEMwork Professional Learning Institute
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. All session were developed in…
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Science of Reading Courses for Teach For America
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.
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Virtual Microscope Slide Viewer
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…
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Online MBA Course Shell
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…
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Map Annotation Tool
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…
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Pharmaceutical Demos
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…
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Complexity Canvas Interactive PDF
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…
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Data Analytics at Disney Interactive
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…
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Apple iPod Narrative Building
This segment was developed for a course on Innovation to teach learners about the process of narrative building. The instructor used narrative building when working with Apple to come up with ideas for how to build the Apple iPod. We presented this story and process through a combination of green screen video, custom graphics, images,…
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Negotiations Value Creation Demonstration
This interactive scenario was created for a Negotiations course at UNC Executive Development as a fun way to teach participants about value creation. It presents a story of kids trick-or-treating with their friends and then negotiating afterwards on which candies to trade. At the end of the scenario, they are asked to select the best…
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Hill Learning Teacher Training
Rhombus Learning and The Farthest Pixel worked with Hill Learning to develop 3 certification courses for teachers on phonological awareness and phonics. Each course included a series of interactive components to engage the teachers and provide immediate feedback. In the first example, participants learn about teaching syllable level skills. The interactive learning module explains types…
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Entrepreneurship Course
Rhombus Learning worked with UNC-TV and faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill to create a blended approach to their Introduction to Entrepreneurship course, a large course that typically has 400+ students enrolled in it at one time. We worked with the faculty to determine the topics within the course that could most benefit from some additional reinforcement…
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Warehouse Audit Simulation
This simulation was created for the Department of Accounting at NC State University using the Unity3D engine. The goal of this Warehouse Audit Simulation was to create an interactive virtual space where students could perform a simulated inventory audit at a local brewery. They do this by inspecting inventory, exploring the brewery warehouse, and talking with warehouse bots. The simulation was developed…
