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Project Spotlight: Building Respectful Relationships within CSSBA

Published November 7, 2024

This project spotlight delves into how PathWise Solutions collaborated with the Community Social Services Bargaining Association to adapt their Building Respectful Relationships course from an in-person seminar to a dynamic online learning experience. By integrating interactive scenarios, graphic novel design, and relatable characters, we created an engaging platform that empowers learners to navigate workplace dynamics and cultivate respectful relationships.

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Seven Deadly Sins of eLearning

Published February 25, 2022

By PathWise Solutions

eLearning is a quickly evolving medium that can change drastically before you know it, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t rules you can and should stick to! When creating online learning material, there are some grave mistakes easily made that can negatively impact the learners’ experience. In this post, we’ll examine the seven deadly sins … Continued

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Accessibility and Inclusivity in eLearning

Published February 15, 2022

By PathWise Solutions

As the world experiences an expedited shift towards remote work and learning in recent years, it’s more important than ever to ensure that all possible clients and users are able to receive the full benefit of any given material. In this post, we’ll examine two major factors – accessibility and inclusivity – as they relate … Continued

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What are the different types of Remote Learning?

Published February 4, 2022

By PathWise Solutions

Workplaces (and schools) the world over have been forced to transition towards remote learning in current circumstances, and as a result, a lot of terminology related to remote learning has been thrown around interchangeably. This can easily be a source of confusion for users and authors alike. In this blog post, we help clear this … Continued

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How to Improve Audio Implementation in eLearning

Published January 4, 2022

By PathWise Solutions

Incorporating audio elements into your eLearning courses can be a great way to raise the audience’s engagement level. Quiet, empty moments in your course can expose its seams very quickly, whether the material is being delivered live or remotely. In this post, we’ll look at a few different audio options that you can use to … Continued

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Making the Most of PowerPoint

Published December 10, 2021

By PathWise Solutions

Microsoft PowerPoint, despite its competition, is still the dominant program of choice for instructors and presenters. It offers unmatched accessibility and ease of use, which unfortunately results in endless poor PowerPoint presentations that give the service a bad reputation. In the eLearning field especially, PowerPoint has become a scapegoat of sorts for courses with flawed, … Continued

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Learning Styles Are a Myth… But What’s the Alternative?

Published September 10, 2021

By PathWise Solutions

Despite their popularity, there’s no scientific evidence to show that student learning styles are valid nor that there are any measurables available to accurately show how much is being learned when learning styles are used. We explore why they’re still so popular despite this, and what you can use instead. The concept of learning styles … Continued

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What is UX Design & Why Does it Matter?

Published April 23, 2021

By PathWise Solutions

Making sure websites and eLearning projects meet the needs of their user boils down to effective User Experience (UX) design. In this post, we break down what UX design entails and why it matters. What is UX? “UX is the web. It is literally all there is. Everything that we interact with in any form … Continued

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4 Tips for Turning Instructor-Led Training into eLearning

Published February 11, 2021

By PathWise Solutions

Embarking on eLearning? Elevate Your Instructor-Led Training by converting it to an Online Course with PathWise Solutions! We prepared 4 simple tips for you to help get the right results. Don’t navigate the eLearning transformation alone. We have a proven track record of guiding our clients through this process.

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Project Spotlight: NCCDH Free Health Equity eLearning Course

Published August 4, 2020

By PathWise Solutions

Health equity is accomplished when every person has the opportunity to achieve their full health potential.. While Canada has made great strides towards achieving health equity, the reality is that a gap between those who are most and least healthy still exists. One of the remedies for this disparity is education. PathWise partnered with the National … Continued

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Project Spotlight: TransLink Change Management & Mentorship eLearning Courses

Published June 25, 2020

By PathWise Solutions

Over the years, PathWise Solutions has worked on several very successful projects with TransLink – Metro Vancouver’s transportation network – including building eLearning courses on change management and mentorship training. We’ve broken down the challenges of these courses and how we worked with TransLink to overcome them. Creating Change Management Online Training In order to accommodate multiple … Continued

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How to Choose a Learning Management System That Works for You

Published June 16, 2020

By PathWise Solutions

Discover how to select the ideal Learning Management System (LMS) for your online training needs. Learn the differences between self-hosted and cloud-based LMS, explore key considerations, and find out how PathWise Solutions can guide you to the best LMS choice for your organization’s unique requirements.

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Project Spotlight: Autism Awareness Training for First Responders

Published June 1, 2020

By PathWise Solutions

Did you know that 1 in 66 children have autism? Or that individuals with autism are 7 times more likely to interact with First Responders than other members of the general public? First Responders aren’t commonly trained to know the specific needs of those with autism, however, so Canucks Autism Network (CAN) wanted to create … Continued

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How We Help Clients Visualize Projects

Published April 6, 2020

By PathWise Solutions

When you’re working with a vendor to get your web or eLearning project built, it can be hard to picture just what the end product may look like, even if you’ve worked very closely with that vendor from the very start. While storyboards, scripts, and documentation all help, we find that working in real time … Continued

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What is Microlearning and Why is it Becoming More Popular?

Published March 31, 2020

By PathWise Solutions

While there’s no strict definition of what microlearning is – it could be short learning activities or individual modules – as the name implies, the focus of microlearning is on providing learners with brief, bite-sized chunks. Whatever the media (text, video, animation, audio, etc.), microlearning delivers material to learners in an easy-to-consume, less time-intensive way. … Continued

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Why We Use Storytelling in Our eLearning Courses

Published March 24, 2020

By PathWise Solutions

Stories are how we attempt to create structure out of the many events of our lives. The most powerful stories teach us lessons about living, making choices, building better relationships, and finding deeper purpose in life. We love stories, and we need stories to learn. Children love to hear stories, but adults have story ‘rituals’ … Continued

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The Business Benefits of Training

Published February 28, 2020

By PathWise Solutions

“Organizations with strong learning cultures exhibit better overall organizational performance in the areas of employee engagement, customer satisfaction, overall productivity, and overall leadership performance compared to organizations with weak learning cultures.” – The Conference Board of Canada Many organizations view training as costly and time consuming, but there is solid evidence to show that nurturing a … Continued

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What is Instructional Design & Why Does it Matter for Training?

Published December 10, 2019

By PathWise Solutions

According to Purdue University, “Simply put, instructional design is the creation of instructional materials.” But effective Instructional Design goes beyond the creation of instructional materials to carefully analyze how learners absorb information and map out how to best convey information to those learners through effective design, content, and delivery in order to yield measurable results. Instructional … Continued

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