Blended Learning
The Right Training, in the Right Place
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Getting the Most from Your Training Investment
Your organization has a wealth of critical knowledge to share, but what's the most effective way to deliver it? Purely in-person training is powerful but expensive and difficult to scale. Purely self-paced eLearning is flexible but can lack the human connection and collaborative practice needed for complex skills.
A strategic blended learning approach solves this dilemma. It's not about simply mixing formats; it's a deliberate instructional design strategy that asks: "What is the absolute best way to teach this specific skill?" By pairing the right content with the right delivery method, you create a learning experience that is more efficient, engaging, and effective for everyone—often reducing the total learner time investment by up to 50%. The goal is to build a program where you can confidently say:
- Our most valuable expert time is being used for high-impact, collaborative learning.
- Our team can learn foundational knowledge at their own pace, whenever and wherever they need to.
- We are delivering a consistent, high-quality training experience to our entire organization, regardless of location.
- We have a strategy for reinforcing key concepts to ensure long-term retention and application, for example, branching scenarios to practice with after the instructor-led session is delivered.
How We Help You Build the Perfect Blend
We partner with you to analyze your content and objectives, designing a seamless blended journey that optimizes every moment of learning.
Build the foundational eLearning
We transform your core knowledge into engaging, self-paced eLearning modules that learners can complete before a live session, making your in-person time more valuable.
Optimize your instructor’s time
By moving lectures and knowledge transfer online, your instructors can focus their valuable time on what they do best: facilitating discussions, coaching, and hands-on practice.
Create hands-on digital practice
We develop interactive scenarios and simulations that allow learners to practice and apply their new skills in a safe, self-paced environment, reinforcing what they've learned.
Provide a flexible learning path
A blended approach gives your team more control over their learning journey, accommodating different schedules and allowing them to learn at the pace that's right for them.
Ensure a cohesive experience
Our team designs all components to feel like one unified program, creating not only the eLearning but also the instructor guides, student workbooks, presentations, and breakout activities for your ILT/VILT sessions.
Ready to Build a Smarter Training Program?
Schedule a strategic consultation to see how a blended learning approach can make your training more effective, efficient, and engaging.
Why Choose Us for Blended Learning Solutions
A successful blended program is more than just an eLearning course and a slide deck; it's a cohesive, intentionally designed learning ecosystem. Our expertise lies in the instructional design strategy required to create that seamless experience.
We are your expert partners in architecting a program that works. We collaborate with your team to deconstruct your existing materials and re-imagine them as a powerful, integrated learning journey.
- Expertise in Content Transformation: We excel at analyzing your existing instructor-led materials and strategically re-engineering them for a blended format, identifying what should be self-paced and what is best for a live session.
- A Focus on the Complete Journey: We design the entire learner journey, ensuring the online and in-person components connect and reinforce each other, rather than feeling like two separate, disjointed experiences.
- Proven, Collaborative Process: We work as an extension of your team, partnering with your instructors and subject matter experts to ensure the final program truly reflects your goals and culture.
Blended Learning Helps Canada Score a Game-Winning Goal
The Challenge: Canada Soccer, the nation's governing body for the sport, faced a massive logistical challenge: how to provide consistent, high-quality certification for over 32,000 coaches and referees spread across the country using only in-person training.
Our Solution: We partnered with them to create a blended learning program. We transformed the foundational, theory-based content into a comprehensive eLearning curriculum that coaches could complete on their own schedule. This allowed the valuable in-person sessions to be focused entirely on practical, on-the-field mentoring and assessment.
The Result: The new blended approach was a huge success. The organization saw its training-related revenue increase by 733% from $60,000 to $500,000 through release of the program. In addition to new revenue heights, Canada Soccer was able to cut its in-person training time in half, reduce administrative overhead, and deliver a more flexible, accessible, and effective certification program to its thousands of members nationwide.
Read the full case study to learn how Canada Soccer benefitted from a blended learning approach with Custom Learning.
FAQ about Custom Blended Learning
What’s the ideal balance between the online and in-person parts of a blended program?
There’s no single answer—it depends entirely on your learning objectives. A common and highly effective model is the “flipped classroom,” where foundational knowledge is learned online before the live session, and the in-person time is dedicated to application, discussion, and practice. We help you determine the perfect balance for your specific needs.
We already have a lot of instructor-led training materials. Can you work with those?
Absolutely. That’s our specialty. Our instructional designers are experts at reviewing your existing slide decks, facilitator guides, and handouts, and strategically re-imagining them for a blended format. We identify the best content for self-paced eLearning and help you redesign the live session to be more interactive and impactful.
How do you keep learners engaged and accountable in the self-paced online portion?
We build engagement directly into the eLearning modules through interactive scenarios, knowledge checks, and compelling storytelling. We also design the program so that the online pre-work is essential for successful participation in the live session, creating a natural incentive for learners to complete it.
Is a blended approach more expensive to develop?
While creating the custom eLearning components requires an initial investment, a blended program often leads to significant long-term savings. By reducing the number of in-person days, you're not just saving on travel and hotels but also on instructor time, facility costs, meals, and, most importantly, the valuable time your learners spend away from their jobs. The reusable digital assets can deliver a powerful return on that initial investment.
With the right partner, bring your eLearning vision to life
We’ll help transform your training into engaging, cohesive custom eLearning courses hassle-free and within budget — so your learners can achieve more.
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