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About the Client
The client is a leading online real estate education provider in the United States, offering pre-licensing, exam preparation, and continuing education programs for real estate and appraisal professionals across multiple states. Operating in a highly regulated industry, the organization must align its courses with national appraisal standards, state-specific licensing requirements, and evolving professional guidelines to support learner certification and career advancement.
Challenges They Faced
With no legacy source material and stringent regulatory requirements, the project demanded end-to-end subject matter creation, curriculum structuring, and platform-aligned content development.
- Limited Source Content for New Courses: The appraisal courses were entirely new, with little to no existing source material. This required extensive research and subject matter development to create accurate, industry-aligned learning content from scratch.
- Strict Compliance with Industry Standards: Courses needed to comply with Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP), Appraiser Qualifications Board (AQB) curriculum requirements, and varying state regulations, making curriculum design complex and highly regulated.
- Turnkey Responsibility for Subject Expertise: As a turnkey project, the responsibility for developing subject matter expertise rested with the delivery team, requiring deep research into appraisal practices, regulatory frameworks, and real-world applications.
- Seat-Time and Curriculum Constraints: Each course had to meet defined seat-time requirements while ensuring comprehensive coverage of learning objectives, creating a challenge in balancing depth with time limitations.
- Plagiarism-Free Content Requirement: The courses were intended for commercial publication, making originality critical and necessitating rigorous plagiarism checks and content validation.
- LMS Compatibility and Authoring Constraints: Content had to align with the client’s internal authoring and publishing tools, requiring adherence to specific scripting formats and templates to ensure seamless LMS integration.
Solutions We Offered
A scalable and instructionally robust development approach was introduced to ensure accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery while maintaining high learner engagement.
- Four-Phased Development Approach: Adopted a structured delivery model to develop 100 hours of learning content in phased increments, enabling iterative reviews, quality assurance, and timely progress.
- Extensive Research & SME Capability Building: Invested significant effort in building subject matter expertise through industry research, regulatory analysis, and conceptual mapping to ensure accuracy and relevance.
- Instructionally Sound Curriculum Design: Developed a comprehensive, standards-aligned curriculum guided by adult learning principles to improve knowledge retention and real-world application.
- Detailed Content Structuring & Storyboarding: Created detailed content outlines and topic-level storyboards incorporating examples, visuals, and scenarios to enhance learner comprehension and engagement.
- Standards-Compliant & Plagiarism-Free Content: Ensured all content adhered to USPAP standards and passed rigorous originality checks, maintaining credibility and compliance.
- Client-Centric Review Workflow: Implemented structured review cycles to incorporate client feedback efficiently, ensuring alignment with expectations and reducing rework.
Results We Delivered
- Extensive R&D: The Hurix team working on the project spends extensive hours building up the subject matter expertise required to design the content.
- High-level Curriculum: A full-fledged, well-planned, and detailed curriculum, covering all the relevant topics, addressing clearly defined learning objectives is designed to serve as a guiding document for the team.
- Client Reviews: Client reviews are strategically planned to ensure high-quality work is delivered in a streamlined way.
- DCOs: The approved curriculum is then fleshed out to a deeper two-level structure: Lesson and Topic to further guide design of the instruction.
- Storyboards: Once the topic-level DCOs are finalized, the Hurix team begins scripting well-structured, instructionally sound, plagiarism-free content for the storyboards, which involves:
