Since the company's inception (as Crank Media) in 1999, Acceleration has established its reputation as an award-winning provider of education campaigns and eLearning resources for commercial and not-for-profit organisations.

Whether developing for pre-school children, year 12 students, youth or adult audiences, we understand the importance of providing a compelling "hook" to create engaging learning experiences. 

Our services allow organisations to leverage technology to improve behavioural change and education and training outcomes and cover the following areas:

• educational strategy
• eLearning resources development
• eLearning management
• communication campaigns

Working with multidisciplinary teams, our expertise covers:

Educational strategy - agreeing what knowledge and behavioural change outcomes are to be delivered and defining the right educational strategies to achieve them. Our services cover:

• defining business / learning priorities and project outcomes 
• assessing curriculum / training needs, trends and resource gaps
• consulting with teachers / trainers and assess learning design considerations
• researching target learner groups to understand knowledge gaps
• defining educational strategy and scope project needs
• program / project monitoring and reporting

eLearning resources development -  educationally sound and engaging content that aligns with the way teachers and instructors want to use the resources either online or in classroom situations. Our skills are in the managing and harnessing multidicipline teams including - educational and content experts, instructional and visual designers, writers, programmers and video and audio productionists. Our services cover:

• learning concept development
• script writing and learning instructional design
• resource production including:
  • animation design
  • video and audio production
  • technology mash-ups
• development of offline activities and teacher / trainer support materials
• defining usability criteria and conducting user testing
• accessibility testing and standards compliance

eLearning management -  learning management systems allow courses and content to be published and accessable online. Our expertise includes the implementation of simple, stand alone open source systems through to enterprise level applications via our solution partners. Our services cover:

• learning management systems (LMS)
• content management systems (CMS)
• business systems integration (LDAP and directory databases)
• site and system hosting and maintenance
• technical and user support

Marketing communications - our expertise covers the design and management of communication campaigns to attract people to educational sites and products. We have expertise in engaging schools, families and the community with messages that provoke responses using tailored media channels. Our services cover:

• integrated communication plans including:
  • direct mail and email
  • printed and newspaper media
  • radio
  • PR and events incuding PD sessions
  • Proffesional association networks
• communication design and production
• campaign implementation (including media buying)

Acceleration also offers professional development services to support implementation of eLearning programs. This support can cover content editing skills, course design and course delivery.