Our Instructional Method as a Service
- Facilitated collaboration with professional designers/artists and/or expert guidance on choosing appropriate visuals
- Writing, copy-editing and/or storyboarding
- Plain language at a 6th grade reading level
- Reviews by experts
- Feedback from audience or patient reviewers
- Translation and multi-language support
- Publishing support and metrics evaluation
Our Instructional Method as a Service
- Facilitated collaboration with professional artists
- Customized for the audience from get-go
- Knowledge curation via primary scientific sources
- Narrative writing, copy-editing and/or storyboarding
- Plain language at a 6th grade reading level
- Reviews by experts
- An empathetic, audience-first approach to content creation
- Feedback from audience or patient reviewers
- Translation and multi-language support
- Publishing support and metrics evaluation
What is the Instructional Method?
While the Story-Driven Method is our gold standard for producing audience-focused Lifeology courses, this method can also be time consuming and is not always necessary for basic science and health explainers. This is why we developed the Instructional Method as an alternative.
We use the Instructional Method to create our Lifeology Instructional courses. Lifeology Instructionals are a “lite” version of Lifeology Original courses that still incorporate many science and health literacy best practices including plain language and actionable information. Lifeology Instructionals are typically short and sweet in scope. They might explain a basic scientific or health concept, or provide useful “how to” information on a health behavior or self-test along with an explanation of why it is important.
The Instructional Method is useful for creating Lifeology courses when the objective is to provide clear and universal messages on basic science and health topics relevant to a broad audience. For example, we are using the Instructional Method to create a library of courses that help people understand what clinical trials are and how they work. We’ve also used this method to create courses that explain what a CT scan is and what to expect when getting one, how to measure one’s blood pressure at home, how a specific medicine works and more.
The Instructional Method relies on existing curated and verified science and health knowledge. It also doesn’t involve the same research and attention to audience-specific questions, concerns, barriers and lived experiences that Lifeology Originals do. But for certain topics, the Instructional Method is the more efficient method for Lifeology course creation that doesn’t sacrifice content value.
Benefits of the
Instructional Method
- Courses are short and straightforward to create
- Produces highly accessible and understandable explainers or “how to’s” for any audience
- Relies on existing official or credible sources of information like the NIH, CDC, etc.
- A flexible creation process that incorporates collaboration when needed
- Can feature custom illustrations, stock photography or a mix
How Can I Use the Lifeology Instructional Method?
You can create Lifeology Instructionals that are part of our official Lifeology Library by collaborating with our Lifeology team and expert reviewers. However, you or your team can also follow our Instructional Method to create your own courses that are easy to understand, visual, accessible and engaging!
If you work with us as a managed service client, we will walk you through every step of our Instructional Method. We will facilitate collaboration between your team and appropriate writers, designers and reviewers. Let us help you create impactful Lifeology courses without the time demands that content generation usually takes.
Some of our Instructional Courses
The Lifeology Story
We follow a tried-and-true process to create Lifeology Original courses. We call this process our Story-Driven Method. It features narrative writing, art and collaboration … READ OUR FULL STORY