Building Scale for Building Healthy Families
A decade ago, Dr. Kate Heelan and a team of University of Nebraska Kearney (UNK) researchers set out to develop a program aimed at reducing childhood obesity. The director of the university’s Physical Activity and Wellness Lab, Heelan launched Building Healthy...
Complete Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Program for K-3 Educators: SELSG+
Are you a K-3 educator? If so, chances are you understand the importance of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) skills. That’s because in a 2018 survey from McGraw Hill Education, 93% of teachers and 96% of administrators agreed that SEL is as important as academic...
Data Security From the Ground Up (INTERVIEW)
The following is a transcript of an interview with Josh Evans, lead software developer at Trifoia. Due to scheduling conflicts and pandemic-related restrictions, the interview was also conducted by Josh Evans. First, let me start by saying thank you for agreeing to...
Top Five Questions to Ask Before Including Virtual Reality in Your eLearning Strategy
As instructional designers, it’s hard not to get excited when new and innovative ways to develop eLearning content become available. While virtual reality is not new by any stretch of the imagination, recent innovations have made VR more accessible and affordable than...
Reducing Implicit Bias in Early Childhood Education
Discipline in early childhood education is not applied to all children the same. In fact, there are vast inequities across our country. The United States Department of Education’s most recent data collection shows that boys and children of color are disciplined at a...
How NOT to Feel like You’re Working on an Island – Managing a Remote eLearning Team
If you’re new to managing a remote team and are behaving a little like Tom Hanks in Castaway, I feel you. (Wilsooooooon!) Here at Trifoia we’ve been fully remote capable since 2015, but the reality is that most of us were in the office most of the time. That’s...
Let’s Change the Way We Think About Internships
We’ve all seen the cliché of internships on TV – young twentysomethings eager to make an impression, relegated to fetching coffee, collating reports, and doing any other busy work their supervisors (or anyone else at the company) doesn’t want to do. Do they...
What and How: Understanding curriculum development and instructional design
Picture this. Your business is recovering from the current economic crisis, and you expect to have twenty new employees to train each month. Some new employees will be working in the call center, and others will be working in the warehouse. You want to ensure every...
