Answers to Common Questions
Kaleidoscope Learning stands out for our thoughtful, learner-centered approach. We design with purpose by balancing learning sciences, creative storytelling, strategic insight, and real-world relevance to create learning experiences that truly resonate with the audience and deliver lasting impact. Our consultative, flexible approach allows us to adapt to each client’s needs, whether as a collaborative partner or an extension of their team.
We work with organizations of all kinds around the world—from corporate learning teams and associations to universities and nonprofits. No matter where you are located, our team is equipped to virtually bring the expertise, flexibility, and learner-centered creativity to deliver impactful learning solutions tailored to your audience and mission.
We understand that projects can evolve. When project needs shift, we adjust flexibly and work with you to evaluate the impact on resources, timeline, and budget. Our priority is to find the best path forward while maintaining open communication and ensuring the quality and effectiveness of your learning solution remain uncompromised.
Every project starts with a discovery phase. We begin with thoughtful conversations to understand your goals, audience, and organizational environment. From there, we move into our Audience and Content Analysis stage, where we dive deeper into existing materials and learner needs. These insights help us define project scope, objectives, and timelines, ensuring alignment before moving into design and development.
Pricing depends on the scope, complexity, and specific needs of your project, including content, interactivity, and media requirements. We provide a detailed proposal and pricing structure, following either a fixed-price or hourly model based on your needs, to ensure alignment with your goals and budget.
Custom Learning Experiences
Yes, we can create courses in SCORM that work in traditional LMSs, and as a full-service software company, we often create sophisticated learning experiences outside of SCORM constraints that we then connect with LMSs or our clients’ internal systems.
We prioritize the development of practical skills through authentic, job-relevant activities. This approach involves designing learning experiences that mirror real-world challenges and tasks, enabling learners to encounter realistic situations and learn skills that they can immediately apply within their professional environments. We emphasize hands-on, learn-by-doing scenarios and simulations that provide realistic contexts along with coaching guidance and feedback, bridging the gap between theoretical understanding and practical implementation.
We incorporate a variety of engaging media, including actor/scenario video, subject matter expert (SME) video, animation, motion graphics, avatars, and others. Our uses of media tend to be in the context of learn-by-doing activities, making the learning experiences truly come to life for learners.
Strategic Consulting for Learning & Development
We assist with a wide range of challenges, including implementing new learning and performance initiatives, optimizing existing learning programs, enhancing learner engagement, and evaluating program effectiveness.
We provide program effectiveness and usability evaluations, identifying opportunities to improve skill application and job performance to ensure that the program achieves its goals.
We leverage data-driven insights from the discovery phase and various analyses, including audience and content analysis, to design a customized learning strategy that directly aligns with your organization's specific objectives and needs.
Innovative Technologies
Our solutions are designed to meet the ever-changing needs of today's learners by exploring and integrating the latest technology advancements to create interactive, enjoyable, and impactful learning experiences.
Yes, we build SCORM-compliant courses and also can create learning experiences in other formats and models that still connect with organizations’ LMSs or in-house systems.
Yes, our dedicated software development team is ready to build custom integrations with virtually any system.
Conferences & Workshops
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Our events include engaging sessions, interactive discussions, and hands-on activities, offered in both in-person and online formats.
Yes, our conferences and workshops are designed to support individuals at all levels, including those just getting started with online or mobile learning.