Challenge

Americans are increasingly challenged with chronic health conditions that have strong associations with poor diet. The deficit in understanding nutrition continues to contribute to poor health outcomes and rising health care expenses.

Objectives

Inspire Health, with its goal of increasing positive health outcomes by improving government health policies and education systems, sought to leverage its relationship with DDA and its custom eLearning design and development to create a new interactive multimedia eLearning module that would provide comprehensive education to health care students and professionals on the links between nutrition and chronic disease, and how improved nutrition can result in improved health.

Solution

DDA worked with Inspire Health to design the custom eLearning platform that would present the original video-based CME course. Based on original illustrations of nutritious food and a crisp design using mint green and navy blue on a white background, the course is divided into 5 main sections with gated video and voice-over content that ensures the user watches through every piece of the course at least once before moving on. Each section includes a short quiz; users have two attempts on each to maximize their performance. Users need to achieve a cumulative score on all quizzes of 70% in order to be certified and thus capture 4.25 CME credit hours.

After successful completion, users are given a personalized certificate of completion, and submit answers to a module evaluation that captures their experience of the CME course to help Inspire Health understand how the module is being received and determine any opportunities for improvement. The CME course also leverages all the advantages of the custom access management and metrics reports developed for the previous Inspire Health courses. Inspire Health can use the school administrative area to designate which university’s student emails will gain access to the site, and school administrators are allowed to review all performance metrics on the students from just their school. 

Metrics reports include the times the coursesare begun and completed, tests on each pre and post-section quiz, total test performance overall, improvement in performance from pre-course quizzes to post-course quizzes, multiple levels of information on the user’s scholastic and professional backgrounds, and their responses to the module evaluation. Additional reports include full details on each answer inputted by each user to each pre- and posttest question, a global summary of all users selecting each answer to each question, overall performance, and each individual’s satisfaction with the module. Master administrators can also filter by school and sort by any combination of demographics, and export reports to spreadsheet format. DDA provides hosting on its own web and database servers for this CME course, along with providing dedicated streaming video hosting on its high-performance content delivery network (CDN).