🌸 What’s New: Our Spring 2025 SkillBuilder® Update! 🌸
Sarah Flesher
Let’s Talk About What’s New at SkillBuilder®!
Dear SkillBuilder community,
As we step into spring, we’re excited to share the latest developments and insights from the SkillBuilder Team. Our commitment to providing innovative learning solutions remains steadfast, and we have some thrilling updates to enhance your experience.
Over the first part of 2025, we’ve had the opportunity to work with some amazing customers on identifying what learning looks like in their workplaces and then designing and developing effective programs to skill up their employees. As part of these initiatives, we’re taking a look at what the future holds and what skillsets are required in these industries over the next 5-10 years.
The big questions on everyone’s mind are how is AI changing our industry? and how are we leveraging AI in the learning and development space?. Artificial Intelligence is no longer just a buzzword—it’s actively reshaping how we train, teach, and grow. From personalized learning paths to real-time coaching, AI is helping organizations deliver smarter, more adaptive training experiences. At SkillBuilder®, we’re exploring how AI can enhance everything from content development to learner engagement—think dynamic simulations, automated feedback, and tailored learning journeys. The result? Faster, more effective, and more scalable learning for everyone.
On a personal note, I want to take a moment to congratulate our team who manages the Alberta Level One Online Orientation Program for child care workers; over 33,000 learners across the province are currently registered in the program! We’ve got some exciting opportunities coming over the next few months around some additional online professional development opportunities in the early childhood education space.
If you have any feedback or suggestions, please don't hesitate to reach out. As always, your input, as well as your trust in us, helps us to better understand, meet and exceed your expectations.
Best,
Sarah Flesher, Ph.D.
President
BaseCorp Learning Systems
Whatever your training challenge, our team can help.
Big shoutout to our amazing customers, who continue to send new opportunities our way and take time out of their busy days to act as a reference; our company continues to grow thanks to your efforts. We’re always happy to prepare a quote or demonstrate our capabilities to organizations who:
- Need help designing and delivering learning solutions that build skills, close training gaps, and drive performance
- Require create custom, competency-based learning programs backed by cutting-edge technology
- Are building a learning program from scratch and are looking for learning needs assessments and skill profiling
Learning Resource Development – What’s New
Focus On… Accessibility
Our SkillBuilder Team of instructional designers, eLearning developers and multimedia experts is dedicated to ensuring our products are fully accessible to all learners, regardless of their unique needs. Our courseware meets or exceeds Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1), which focus on perceivability, operability, understandability, and robustness for all types of learners by:
- Using screen reader-friendly formats, for example ensuring that all text, images, and media are readable by screen readers using semantic HTML (headings lists, and tables), proper label tags and ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) labels are used
- Ensuring all screen navigation can be completed using a keyboard only
- Ensuring all audio and video content has closed captions and/or full-text transcripts
- Testing out colour contrast options to ensure text and background colours are readable, especially for learners with low vision or colour blindness
A custom-built focus order is used to ensure the learner can navigate their way through each screen easily using just their keyboard.
Selected areas are highlighted in a high contrast colour so learners can easily navigate through each screen, and all relevant images have alt text descriptions.
We also ensure that all graphics, backgrounds, and text have a high enough contrast to comply with WCAG standards.
SkillBuilder® Technologies – What’s New
Our SkillBuilder® technologies are empowering learners in their learning journey. SkillBuilder® LMS is a platform built on proven principles of competency and adult learning science. We’re helping our customers understand that adult learners thrive when they have control over their learning journey and engage better with the content when the training meets a specific need. Here’s what’s new:
Survey Learning Item
Feedback from your learners and any data you can collect on your course is gold! You now have the ability to include a customized survey learning item as part of your personalized learning paths. Your survey (our course evaluation) can include various question types, ensuring you get the highest quality feedback from your learners.
Updated Groups Feature
The ability to manage groups has now become easier. Administrators now have the option to bulk import people into groups. There is also the ability to add/remove multiple members from a group with a single action, resulting in faster workflows and streamlined management of people and accounts.
Updates to Admin View
Throughout the platform, we’ve updated the admin accounts view to improve usability and ease management activities.
Concierge Services
We understand that administrating an LMS can be a lot of work, so we’re now offering concierge services for setup and customization, ongoing site maintenance, and end user program support. This expert LMS implementation and management service, led by our highly skilled and academically credentialed team, is designed to relieve your organization from the day-to-day administration of your learning program.
We will take the opportunity to evaluate your program requirements from set up through to ongoing support and determine the appropriate service levels and associated costs.
🔥Hot Tip!🔥
Before picking your learning tech, make sure you really understand your program’s needs and processes.
Your technology should fit your strategy—not the other way around.
When you know your goals, learners, and workflows, you can choose tools that actually work for you, not against you.
Start with clarity, then invest with confidence.
Employee Spotlight
Larry, our Director Technology and Sr. Programmer just celebrated a milestone anniversary with Base Corp: (drum roll please….) 20 years! We’ve been very fortunate to have him as a part of our team for the past two decades. Larry brings a wealth of experience to our SkillBuilder® technologies, has been instrumental in the development of SkillBuilder® LMS, and continues to challenge all of us to use technology creatively.
Fun fact about Larry is that he was an Olympic diver, and today LOVES hockey (Go Oilers!)
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Sarah Flesher
Sarah, our President, graduated from Concordia University in Montreal with a BA and an MA in Public Policy and Public Administration and completed her doctorate in Educational Technology. Sarah brings over 15 years of operational and management experience to her role as President at Base Corp. She works collaboratively with organizations to develop strategic learning plans, determine training requirements. When she doesn't have her nose in a book you can find her at the gym, on the ice, on the ski hill, drinking wine or in a coffee shop … with her nose in a book.