Engage professional learners in your educational initiatives.

Education institutions rely on Participate because of our expertise in adult education and professional development. As former educators, instructional designers and education researchers, our team designed our social learning platform to meet the needs of growing organizations and their constituents. We focus on mission-alignment and intentionally partner with institutions looking to better support their adult learners by working together for the greater good, being kind, creating meaningful solutions and growing from successes and failures.

If your education institution has existing courses, events or training you’d like to move online, our instructional design team is here to help you transform those into vibrant learning experiences. We’ll take you through a guided process of online learning experience design and draft courses alongside you. Most education institutions come to us with some existing online courses, but if you’re just getting started that’s fine too! We can help you develop content and elearning experiences based on your institution’s unique needs and goals.

Most traditional learning management systems will focus solely on e-courses or forums to guide e-learning opportunities. Within a single learning experience in a Participate community, members have the opportunity to pick a personalized pathway of growth and engage with multiple users through courses, discussions, resource collections, direct messaging and more. Our tool was built for adult learning and collaboration, whereas Learning Management System competitors were often built student-facing first then adapted for adults.

Participate communities are similar to a social network combining its power with a Learning Management System. If your education institution only needs electronic courses or forums, then a Learning Management System may suffice. If you need a genuine community to facilitate connection and collaboration, then a community will be a better fit.