Recently we have heard a number of disheartening stories of schools of all sorts - from academic to trades to athletic to creative - that are considering closing as a result over uncertainty over how long the doors to their physical locations will be closed as we work to flatten the curve of the spread of COVID-19. We can help your organization to transition into an online learning environment for both the short term and long term (if that is so desired). What this could involve is finding and setting up the right digital learning solutions for your organization, training your instructors in building and teaching their courses online, helping your instructor's get their courses online, and fine tuning instructor's online courses and the organization's online classroom environment in the long term. Please reach out, if we can be of help to you.

1. Ahimsa Media …
Helping Organizations
to Find Solutions for
Digital Learning
An Introduction to Who We Are
and How We Can Help Create
Digital Learning Solutions for
your Organization to Reach and
Teach your Students and
Clients Online

2. Who We Are & What We Do
Our team at Ahimsa Media are Storytellers,
Educators and Technologists. We build
storyworlds and learning experiences
across platforms of media. This has
involved us finding and creating media
solutions to teach and share different
educational pieces. With this, we have been
teaching, building courses, and developing
programs on and offline for post-secondary
schools for the past decade.
Through these courses, and the talks and
workshops we give around the world, we
teach others how to use digital and
experiential media to bring their stories to
life - whether for education, marketing,
traditional storytelling, tourism, or a non-
profit organization.

3. Finding On and Offline Educational
Solutions
Over the past two decades our work in
education, media, and technology has involved
developing on and offline educational solutions
for schools, TV series, films, production
companies, children, parents, fitness studios,
tech companies, tourism groups, theatre
companies, natural and cultural heritage sites,
and more, in addition to the post-secondary
schools with whom we work.
As an example this past week, that has
involved online courses with BCIT, building an
upbeat online storytelling course for a group of
kids from a cheerleading school to motivate
them, helping a yoga studio to find online
solutions for their courses, and building an
online classroom environment for StoryToGo.

4. How We Can Work With Schools & Instructors
to Get Their Courses Online
In working with a client to find them educational solutions to their problems, we do this in three stages:
❖ Stage 1 : Initial Consultation
• identify the needs of the organization
• identify what infrastructure the organization currently has in place
• identify the digital knowledge base of the instructors
• identify the immediate need and timeline to meet that need
• identify any long term or on-going goals and the timeline to meet those needs
❖ Stage 2 : Build Infrastructure (if the organization does not currently have an LMS in place)
• help the organization to set-up an infrastructure for online learning that meets their immediate needs and long term goals
❖ Stage 3 : Instructor Training
• set-up online instructor training in how they can set up their courses online with the organization’s infrastructure for online learning
• this could involve an instructor training online course, including text and video tutorials, user guides, and discussion boards, as well
as individual coaching
❖ Stage 4 : Physically Build the Course
• dependent on the instructor’s needs, this could involve some simple fine tuning, editing, and instructional design; or our team
physically building whole courses online from the instructor’s lesson plans
• should the organization’s goal be to build long term online courses, then our team will help instructors to fine tune their courses,
create media for them, and build interactive solutions for learning online
Depending on the organization’s needs, timeframe, and what they already have in place, each of these different stages may be more or less
involved.

5. We look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Thank you for your
time and
consideration!
erica@ahimsamedia.com
604-785-3602