Mobile Learning

The client

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) funded grants to seven educational institutions, including the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, to develop a National Food Safety Curriculum. The goal: ensure that federal, state and local authorities can work together effectively in their responses to food emergencies, by developing an educated, trained and competent workforce to tackle food safety.

The challenge

The resulting courses and training programs were designed to improve responses to foodborne illness outbreaks and other events. Because the audience — emergency workers — is mobile and distributed, the training had to be responsive and accessible across smartphones, tablets and desktops, and built to accessibility standards so every learner could complete it in the field.

Our solution

We designed a mobile-first, responsive course that adapts cleanly across devices, so emergency workers could learn on the go. The build paired visually engaging content with the structure and accessibility the program demanded — authored in HTML5 and Lectora 12, and packaged for delivery through the program’s learning platform.

Explore our mobile learning practice area and our approach to 508 compliance and accessibility.