Hear Directly from our client, The Redemption Project, about their challenge, our solution, and the result.

Challenge

During the COVID pandemic, we decided to develop a Learning Management System. We partnered with E5i to bring to the Minnesota Department of Corrections our programming in a way that would increase our ability to track the learning progress of the inmates and improve the quality of our program, while at the same time reducing the time it would take to administer our project.

Solution

Working within the security guidelines of a prison system is no small task. The professional and technical expertise of the E5i team was exceptional and made what I thought would be a very long and arduous task quick and easy. The E5i team took on the challenge with ease and met all the security requirements of the state prison system. 

I have also been impressed with E5i’s expertise in how to best deliver educational material to the students. The value of our program improved dramatically due to their knowledge of best practices for educating students using an LMS.

Result

This allowed The Redemption Project to be: the first non-profit to provide programming using the prison’s internal internet system, the first non-profit to use an LMS on that internet system, and the first non-profit program to enter the state prison system after COVID restrictions were lifted.

Not only did E5i deal with the technical aspects of developing and delivering an LMS, while at the same time improving the quality of the education we can provide, but they are a joy to work with and always willing to provide guidance and a thoughtful perspective about any challenge that arose during this process so that we could stay focused on our mission.

Challenge

The Purpose Promise and their team were about to launch into the new territory of adding an e-course for college students to their offerings. Having never launched an e-course before and offering their program to a new demographic, The Purpose Promise team was unsure about how to proceed. 

Solution

The E5 Institute provided the purpose promise team with educational design consulting services to help them achieve their goals. After a few discovery sessions with their team, E5I developed a mobilization roadmap, which defined their learner persona and intended outcomes of their course and mapped out the entire course and recommend content. They advised the PP team on best practices for the videos and interactive elements needed to make the course engaging and successful.

Once the first draft of the course was completed, E5I reviewed it and made recommendations for fine tuning the e-course. E5I continued to remain available for questions and feedback through production and into the launch phase of their e-course.

Result

The Purpose Promise was able to successfully launch a profitable e-course as an additional revenue stream to their offerings and a way to engage a new demographic into their consulting services.

Here’s what they had to say:

“E5I provided an awesome journey. I cannot recommend them enough. They collaborated with us to design our path forward. They are so gifted, amazing listeners, and great at drilling down to the most important things we needed for our business to move into ecourse delivery and be stronger in the digital space.”

John McCarthy, President – The Purpose Promise

Hear directly from Student Senates Across America about their experience

Challenge

“When I decided to create a transferable, teachable curriculum for Student Senate in the summer of 2021, I thought it would be a snap. After all, I am a writer with more than 50 books to my credit. Soon I found that curriculum-writing requires different gifts, skills and talents than mine, and the ability to view that curriculum from the outside. I birthed and nurtured Student Senate with now, more than 20 years of teaching it. This makes it especially challenging to find folks who can balance my passion and program prejudices with professional writing so that others would be able to do what I have done.”

-Dave Racer

“There are few things more intimidating than taking the custom curriculum you’ve been teaching for over a decade and trying to document it in an engaging way. When we learned that E5i could not only write Student Senate but also create interactive learning options and a fully optimized delivery system, we couldn’t reach out fast enough.”

-Krista Coleman

Solution

“E5I took a curriculum that lived largely in the founder’s head, and formalized it into a usable, engaging, and modernized learning experience for high school students as well as developing a facilitator training for teachers to be successful in leading the class.”

-Krista Coleman

“E-5 Institute, T.J. Tison and her team of professionals spent scores of hours working with us to understand the complexities of our program. Then they created an engaging, accurate, functional curriculum and delivered it to me in a form students and facilitators find meets their needs to successfully carry out a Student Senate session.”

-Dave Racer

Result

“Student Senates Across America now has a complete turnkey curriculum that can be sold to schools across the country.
E5 Institute is successful because they are fastidious and focused on what we, as their client, wanted, but also because they are able to deliver a product that is better than we could do ourselves.”

-Dave Racer, Founder of Student Senates Across America

“Our experience with E5i was astounding. Every step of the way, they helped us have clear expectations and led us through the process, resulting in a more marketable curriculum than we ever could have created alone. Thank you to the team at E5i that helped us take Student Senates Across America from a dream to a reality!”

-Krista Coleman