In early 2026, I started taking American Sign Language (ASL) classes. Moving from an instructional design role into a student role has taught me (or reinforced) some important concepts about learning! Read along to see five things I’ve learned about learning as an ASL student.
Read MoreRPH Consulting has a webinar collaboration with SOPHE on September 17, 2025.
Designing accessible health education training content has wide-ranging individual and organizational-level benefits. These include compliance with funder and legal requirements, reaching a broader learning audience, creating a better user experience, and shifting from an individual accommodation-based framework to designing for all learners. Unfortunately, accessibility planning is often an afterthought in our workforce development efforts. It is a quick final review to confirm we have video captions or transcripts. It is an item to be checked off before our training or course launches.
Join the webinar and let’s learn together how to change that!
Read MoreI’m happy to share my next installment of “Hot Off The Press”, a blog feature where I share emerging research, publications, and standards that are relevant to making effective and accessible public health courses.
This month, I am highlighting a new article from the journal Pedagogy in Health Promotion called “Is Public Health Education and Training Adequately Responding (or Not) to Emerging Priorities?” (Kemper Seeley, Robinson, Severinsen, and Coombe, 2024).
I discuss the highlights and my key takeaways.
Read MoreAn audit is defined as “a methodical examination and review.” And this is exactly what I can do for you when you have an e-learning course, whether it is already live or still in development.
Conducting course audits is one of my favorite consulting services. I love getting to learn from my clients about so many interesting public health topics (yes, I take every course that I review!), celebrating the parts of the course that are strong, and identifying the content and/or design features that can be strengthened.
In today’s blog post, I answer FAQs about my audit service.
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