Project Overview
Wilberforce Institute, at the University of Hull works towards ending labour exploitation and slavery, globally. The influential research conducted by the Institute has received royal recognition and is helping governments, businesses, and communities root out slavery at its very source – one of the greatest threats to human rights. Wilberforce Institute has become a world leader in the study and explication of slavery today.
The Institute had an existing curriculum on the Modern Slavery Act to help
- PhD students at the University study and conduct life-changing research around policy reforms;
- Businesses and organisations to work hand-in-hand for creating a robust ethical supply chain; and
- Universities to educate the policy-makers of the future.
In order to reach a wider audience across the globe, there was a pressing need to transform the existing curriculum into online learning. The Institute also needed a platform to host these online courses with a set of features that would help them with user and course management for future.
The Solution
Wilberforce Institute approached Lampada for a solution to address its need of developing an online curriculum.
Lampada’s Instructional Design (ID) team assessed the existing curriculum for Modern Slavery Act. A content architecture and design strategy for an e-learning course was proposed which would transform the current static content into interactive elements using photographs, infographics, videos, knowledge checks, case studies, assignments, job aids etc. The course was designed and developed using Lampada FROST (a narrative content authoring platform supporting structured XML and WYSIWYG editors).
To address the hosting needs, Lampada’s Technology experts developed a custom web-based platform. This platform provided features for user management such as self-registration on the platform, email notifications etc. The administrator dashboard allowed generation of reports such as user registration report, course status report by user (Not started, In progress, Completed). The platform also provided the feature for generating course completion certificate which could be printed/viewed/downloaded by the users post successful completion of the online course.
