Services
Our Approach
As you review our services below and learn more about what it is we do at The Farthest Pixel, please know that it is often the case that many of these services work in concert together to bring about the optimal solution. For some solutions we can provide a variety of options to meet a learning challenge, including low, medium and high development scenarios to work with a given budget and with established time constraints. We look forward to working with you! If you have questions about our services or our process, please give us a call!
Instructional Design Services

Custom E-Learning
We customize e-learning solutions that create inspiring experiences, and educate and engage your learners. Solutions may result in a single media element, or incorporate a number of elements in order to achieve your learning objectives. For example, a solution may include animation, video, and/or a gamified experience working in concert within a learning management system with online readings and assessments. We have experience working in many diverse content areas, including laboratory courses, technical and conceptual courses as well as courses that require a high level of participant collaboration.

Mobile Learning
Learning solutions today should always consider if the content should also be developed for delivery on a mobile device. More and more often the answer is “yes.” That said, many mobile solutions do not necessarily also need to be provided on the web. We can help you determine if a mobile learning solution is important for your learning scenario, and evaluate the plethora of options available to best meet your learner’s needs. The affordances of mobile learning are supported by every learning theory out there, and we have developed a wide range of mobile solutions to meet a variety of learning needs.

LMS & Course Design
Learning Management Systems (LMS) help instructors manage assessments and grades, support content delivery via a number of media sources (text, image, video, custom interactives, etc.), create a safe and private community of learning, and allow instructors to easily present material in a consistent way from topic to topic. This is very important in course design, particularly for more complex course development. One of the most prevalent causes for student failure lies with a lack of organization and consistency in how a course is presented. Course design at The Farthest Pixel involves an analysis of what is to be taught and a period to define the primary and secondary learning objectives, as well as identifying any challenges in delivery or comprehension that need to be resolved. It is therefore critical that we have a subject-matter expert involved and available as part of our project team. We have a great deal of experience in developing award-winning courses, and look forward to working with you on yours!
Media Design Services

Animation
Animation can be a very powerful way to learn. It can be highly engaging just because it is often attempting to mimic the real world… yet it isn’t. Of course, it can be overkill for many learning challenges, or simply not a good fit. So when do we use it?
Animation is a great solution for learning about challenging concepts and ideas that have historically been explained through text alone. Animation can be helpful here in supporting text due to something called the “picture superiority effect.” This is a learning theory that says concepts presented as pictures are encoded into both our verbal and image memory systems. This includes animation. Because of this, concepts are both easier to understand and also more readily become part of our long term memory.
Animations are also useful for explaining things that are in the tangible world but are challenging to photograph or video, or where access to them is difficult. Consider learning about how a piece of equipment works on the inside, or learning the operations of cells in a plant or animal. With animation either of these scenarios can be solved.
At The Farthest Pixel, we have lots of experience developing animations to support concept learning and situated learning. We’d love to work with you to identify the best solution for your learning challenge, and discuss how an animation may be useful. Please give us a call!

Branding & Communications
Many organizations invest a great deal in course development, but fall short on developing a winning brand that can consistently and effectively communicate the desired quality, vision and reputation of their program. Equally important is gaining buy-in from organization stakeholders on what these should be. As well as those supportive strategies that ensure it is realized.
Consumers of knowledge today expect more. You need to let them know you deliver more and understand their needs. Your messaging through all of your brand and communication avenues must be consistent and effective and project the integrity of your program. Be it an internal training audience or an external customer, your brand is an important opportunity with every learner. And it goes much farther than a logo. It is every visual aspect of your training and education program, as well as the messaging you use through every medium, right down to the course development level. It is that consistent perception that is created across existing or prospective consumers that will ensure the desired reputation of your program.
We provide analysis of your existing training program as it relates to your brand and communication and marketing channels. We then work with you to craft a winning brand strategy that gains the support of your organization’s stakeholders and aligns with the goals you have for your internal and/or external customers.

Games & Simulations
Games (or in the case of learning, “serious games”) have become widely accepted within higher education, the military, the healthcare industry, and in corporate settings as a powerful and effective tool to engage learners. While leveraging a variety of learning theories that support games in the natural ways we learn, there are numerous learning contexts where games can create an exciting, immersive learning experience. A game can aid in delivering content that might otherwise be very difficult and intimidating to your learners, and it can create motivation and make otherwise boring content interesting and engaging. It can be used to aid learners in responding to scenario-based situations that emulate a real-world experience, allowing them an opportunity for practice in a safe space. Or it can be leveraged to foster healthy competition within a sales team, for example. There are numerous ways games, and simulations, can be used to meet learning goals, as well as numerous approaches to game-based learning. Some that are simple to implement and some more complex. We have experience with both game development and simulations for the web and mobile, and both simple and complex solutions. We can work with you to evaluate your learning situation and help you determine the best approach and if and how a game solution can work for you.

Graphics & Illustration
Visual design is a very important element in course design. It aids learners to more easily navigate through content and to recognize similar categories of content and therefore create an organized mental order of learning. Graphics are also important in branding a course and a program, adding consistency that creates both an identity and a safe space for learners through developing recognizable elements that assure them they’re in the right place and on the right path. The importance of graphics in course design is often undervalued, but should in fact always be considered.
When looking to graphics and illustrations (as well as photographs) as learning objects, they again play an important role in providing visual recall and aiding in retention of content learned, but just as important can be used to explain difficult concepts otherwise provided only through text. Oftentimes, text falls short of aiding student comprehension, but additionally images (including photographs) leverage something called “the superiority effect” where pictures are known to be retained in our memory as both image and text, so have a higher chance of later recall. Illustrations can be helpful where an object is inaccessible to photograph due to location, scale, or perhaps when you’re trying to convey a concept or idea.

Interactives
Interactivity is useful for learning where cause and effect can aid students in understanding concepts. Interactivity is a partner to discovery learning, an important part of constructivism or “hands-on” learning, arguably the optimal way for us to learn. When learners become empowered with their own learning, their choices provide feedback in a meaningful way and direct future choices, retention of concepts learned is at its highest.
Interactivity can be accomplished in a number of ways, and can involve complex solutions and software. It can also be accomplished through simple web interfaces and basic html design. We have loads of experience designing for a variety of learning needs and will work with you to determine the most effective solution for your learning situation.

Video
Video can be a great tool to augment content delivered as only text in that it can both provide a visual and time-based explanation to content, particularly when text alone cannot fully explain certain concepts, and also enhance a sense of community in an online course. Video can add to the validity of the instructor, used both as an introductory piece to the course and section topics, but also as review and just-in-time response to student challenges. Video also lends learners and instructors an opportunity to build an online presence that may otherwise be more challenging to accomplish. According to learning theories, creating a social presence and a sense of community between student and teacher, student and student, and within the entire course, is an important aspect in student success. We can work with you to identify ways you can use video to enhance your course design and share a number of technologies that can be used to help you accomplish your goals.
Consulting Services

Learning Strategy
Visual design is a very important element in course design. It aids learners to more easily navigate through content and to recognize similar categories of content and therefore create an organized mental order of learning. Graphics are also important in branding a course and a program, adding consistency that creates both an identity and a safe space for learners through developing recognizable elements that assure them they’re in the right place and on the right path. The importance of graphics in course design is often undervalued, but should in fact always be considered.
When looking to graphics and illustrations (as well as photographs) as learning objects, they again play an important role in providing visual recall and aiding in retention of content learned, but just as important can be used to explain difficult concepts otherwise provided only through text. Oftentimes, text falls short of aiding student comprehension, but additionally images (including photographs) leverage something called “the superiority effect” where pictures are known to be retained in our memory as both image and text, so have a higher chance of later recall. Illustrations can be helpful where an object is inaccessible to photograph due to location, scale, or perhaps when you’re trying to convey a concept or idea.

CSR & Sustainability
We are passionate about the environment and what each of us can do to respect and protect it for future generations. We also believe it is important that we respect the individuals who share in creating our community. When we formed The Farthest Pixel we challenged ourselves to identify ways we could support our community and our environment as a business. One of these ways is through our community outreach program. Another way we do this is through offering customized solutions for businesses who want to implement CSR (Corporate Social Responsibiity) and establish sustainable practices in their organization to protect the environment and mitigate global warming. We will partner with you to customize CSR and sustainability solutions that are appropriate for your organization. We will then help you implement them, educate your employees and vendors, and work with your organization to develop training solutions that can continue to support your team moving forward. We look forward to working together to discover ways we can improve the quality of life for our community and the environment!