Fulcrum Labs Brings Personalized Training and Award-Winning Multimedia to Aviation Industry
(Los Angeles, CA; June 2, 2015) – Fulcrum Labs, the online learning company, has partnered with innovative commercial airline, Allegiant Air, to provide customized training programs for all of Allegiant’s training. The announcement was made today by Fulcrum CEO Patrick Weir and Allegiant Air's Vice President of Flight Operations, Greg Baden. Fulcrum has created learning programs designed specifically for Allegiant’s MD80 and Airbus A320 Flight Operations. Next up, Fulcrum will begin developing training for all aspects of the company – cabin, mechanics, stations and dispatch – through Fulcrum’s personalized learning platform.
Fulcrum’s competency-based, mastery-focused courses with such features as instant feedback and optimal challenge (a strategy used successfully by the gaming industry) are a dramatic upgrade over the legacy classroom and e-learning courses implemented by airlines a decade ago. With Fulcrum’s Learning Object Analytics, for example, Allegiant will now be able to pinpoint the depth and degree to which a concept has been mastered, identify critical knowledge gaps, target remediation and optimize the training.
The courses represent a breakthrough, both in terms of the adaptive online platform that make it possible for every student to achieve mastery, as well as the quality of the content—a key factor in driving student engagement. Fulcrum’s approach to, and expertise with, increasing engagement is what makes the company unique in the corporate training sector. Subject matter experts and instructional designers at Fulcrum are paired with award-winning production veterans, animators and digital artists who know how a 21st Century audience absorbs information. Fulcrum was recently honored with seven Telly Awards for excellence in training, animation and 3D graphics.
The partnership highlights Allegiant’s commitment to career development and growth from within. Fulcrum’s training program is seen by Allegiant as another key to retaining long-term employees and recruiting future talent, in addition to other significant cost savings.
“In the next 3-5 years, the airline industry is anticipating a large-scale wave of pilot retirement," said Fulcrum's Weir (pictured left). "To fill those vacancies as efficiently as possible, and avoid any bottle-necking and high T&E costs, companies like Allegiant need training solutions that are scalable and cost-effective. Allegiant also recognizes the importance of engaging content and the need to turn students into learners. Allegiant Travel Company is the ideal partner for us.”
"We are constantly searching for innovative ways to operate efficiently while being cost-conscious," added Allegiant's Baden. "Fulcrum's emphasis on high quality content combined with a mature personalized, adaptive learning platform will improve our training."
About Fulcrum Labs:
Founded in 2014, Fulcrum Labs is a full-service learning technology partner for organizations tired of DIY instructional tools and death by PowerPoint, which has been synonymous with e-learning and classroom training. Fulcrum combines proven cognitive science with the storytelling power of award-winning animators and production veterans to bring engaging, personalized content to the education, career training and professional development sector. Fulcrum turns instructional material and learning objectives into engaging, ready-to-use online courses and powers them with their adaptive platform to turn students into lifelong learners and subject matter masters, all with quantifiable cost savings and with the data to prove it. Fulcrum Labs has been recognized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as one of the leaders in personalized, adaptive learning.
The combined resumes of Fulcrum Labs’ personnel include such leading firms as Universal Studios, FOX, YouTube, NASA, BET, Mandate Pictures, Oscilloscope, Sundance, BRAVO, Hallmark Television, StubHub, Smithsonian Institute, HBO, 20th Century Fox, Relativity Media, FX, Apple, NBC Universal, US Army, Disney Animation, Atari, TBWA/Chiat/Day, Ovation TV, and the US Marines, among others. For more information on Fulcrum Labs, please visit: http://www.the-fulcrum.com/.
About Allegiant Air:
Allegiant Air is focused on linking travelers in small cities to world-class leisure destinations. The company operates a low-cost, high-efficiency, all-jet passenger airline service and has been named one of America's 100 Best Small Companies by Forbes Magazine for five consecutive years. In 2014, AVIATION WEEK ranked Allegiant the Top-Performing Airline in North America for the third consecutive year. For downloadable press kit, including photos, visit: http://gofly.us/xG7se
