Educational Solutions to Help Organizations Succeed

Custom Programs That Work

When you partner with Franklin University for curriculum design and development, you’ll have access to our proven processes for creating transformative educational experiences. You’ll get content grounded in the latest academic research through Franklin’s International Institute for Innovative Instruction, as well as content that reflects the latest U.S. and international quality standards. Plus, we deliver what we say, when we say it -- which means on time. Franklin can help you engage learners through media-rich courses and programs designed in collaboration with your faculty to your standards and specifications. Choose your preferred format, including online, onsite or blended. 

From Idea Through Implementation

Even if you know what your learners need to accomplish, you may not know how to deliver the outcomes. Franklin University’s curriculum design and development services are rooted in over a  decade of working with businesses and universities. We know what it takes to facilitate effective learning; that’s why we look at your situation from every angle and make sure your solutions help you achieve both educational goals and organizational objectives.

Build, Enhance and Maximize Learning Initiatives

Using proven methodologies, we work with you to develop media-rich courses, educational programs, and content that facilitate active engagement of learners and, more importantly, deliver desired results. Whether you need another course, a completely new training program, or a refresh of existing curriculum, Franklin’s doctorally qualified faculty and expert instructional designers can help. We deliver robust, relevant content in innovative ways, including games, simulations and video, so you can extend your curriculum, engage your learners, and achieve your objectives.

Results-Driven Partnerships

Having worked with more than 400 learning institutions, providing consultation, workshops and webinars, we’ve designed or redesigned more than 100 full academic programs and thousands of courses. With our complete range of services, you’ll get the highest quality learning programs and the best possible outcomes. It’s our job as your partner to help you maximize your learning initiatives and position your programs for success.

Assessment-Based Faculty Development

When you need to amplify organizational results, start with faculty development. Franklin can help devise and deliver formal faculty training, including assessment, program review and leadership growth. We also improve student success through guided learning outcomes mapping, increase retention through teaching and learning development analytics, and leverage training and analytics to enhance instructional effectiveness.

The Key To Academic Quality

Teaching and learning outcomes are at the core of academic excellence. Yet, faced with increasing competition and regulatory requirements, attracting, developing and retaining high-quality faculty members is not easy. In partnership with Franklin University, higher education institutions like yours can get insight into best practices in teaching and assessment, find resources to develop faculty capabilities, and improve the academic quality of your programs.

A Clear Path Toward Teaching Excellence

As part of our unique approach, we’ll discuss your institutional goals and create a plan based on your needs. You’ll have access to Franklin’s faculty development curriculum, which includes best-in-class courses in instructional practices, observation, coaching, assessment, and feedback, and techniques to enhance student learning. Through formal assessment and training options like seminars, webinars and online courses, your faculty have the opportunity to demonstrate and improve the quality of their teaching and learning effectiveness. And, each course is embedded with assessment tools to drive improvements based on specific areas of need, from training through actual classroom implementation.

Maximize Faculty Impact

As part of the Franklin’s faculty development offerings, we can support your institution and faculty in developing knowledge and expertise. Even better? Our proven, effective practices can be implemented immediately. In addition to our own curriculum, Franklin University has launched faculty development courses both in the U.S. and around the world, as well as partnered with global institutions to successfully evaluate and improve faculty development.

Full-Service Support For Faculty Management

Franklin University's instructor staffing services can help you fill staffing needs for just about any subject. We can help ensure instructor qualifications based on accrediting body standards; find and train instructors to teach online, face-to-face or both, in any learning management system; and ease the administrative burden with our payroll and employment administration.

High-Quality Instructors, Low-Stress Recruitment

Staffing and faculty recruitment is challenging, expensive and time consuming. From a shortage of qualified candidates to an increasing cost-per-hire, building and maintaining a workforce is no easy task. By leveraging industry expertise and our candidate networks, Franklin University can identify and place qualified faculty to fit your needs. Quality instruction is at the core of any growing institution, and with our deep pool of American, credentialed instructors, we can provide you with the best.

Ease Your Administrative Burden

Drawing on best practices and decades of experience, Franklin University has perfected a unique approach to staffing needs. Our skilled and agile staffing resources provide a foundation for a complete suite of partner-support services. We’ll help you hire and train quality faculty members, maintain teaching credentials (quality assurance), and develop faculty, as well as fulfill administrative needs, such as payroll and employee management.

Using the expertise and faculty development model used by Franklin’s International Institute for Innovative Instruction, we’ll provide expert instructors with a demonstrated ability to impact student success. Moreover, with the help of built-in reporting and analytics, Franklin’s instructor staffing services can hire, develop and manage your faculty, as well as conduct ongoing assessment of each instructor’s teaching effectiveness.

Qualified People Working for You

Franklin University has developed its ability to provide instructor staffing services through experience hiring and managing its own growing instructor needs, as well as with working with higher education institutions in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Franklin University staffs more 30 classroom sessions for partner institutions each term.

Increase Student Access To Higher Education

With Franklin’s BlueHorizon ESL program, you can choose from a full range of immersive, advanced and just-in-time programming with a residential option. Our program helps ensure direct admission to ESL programs – with no advanced placement testing required, and can be customized to meet the needs of your specific learners. In addition, our program satisfies ESL criteria for admission to Franklin University (inclusive of the Urbana University branch campus) with completion of a one-year ESL immersion program.

Experiential Language Instruction That Works

Research proves that when it comes to successful language acquisition, study and memorization of course material simply doesn’t work. Instead, ESL effectiveness is dependent on how the content is presented and the subsequent opportunities learners get to apply what they have studied. BlueHorizion ESL is a full-featured ESL offering that helps students gain access to higher education – and succeed in their academic endeavors. From early-level, to degree preparation, to immersion programs, Franklin’s BlueHorizon ESL delivers results-driven learning.

Immersive Learning Approach

With its residential immersion program, Franklin’s BlueHorizon ESL uses an active-learning approach that unites curriculum with engaging teaching methods. Designed for graduate and undergraduate students who have not yet reached the level of English proficiency required for regular academic admission, BlueHorizon ESL Immersion is a year-long English language program offered on Franklin University's Urbana, Ohio branch campus. It consists of a 6-week intensive language and cultural orientation course followed by 9 months of full-time study of English for academic purposes. Participants reside on campus along with native speakers, taking advantage of both the intensive learning format and the reinforcement afforded by campus living and learning.

Franklin also offers an alternative to the immersion program: a customized, 3-week, residential program. If you’re interested in developing a BlueHorizon ESL residential program, let’s connect you with a coordinator to identify your learning needs and establish a support plan. All ESL programs include beginner, intermediate or advanced-level language instruction, taught by TESOL-trained professionals with advanced degrees.

Engaging Teaching Methods Make a Difference

Franklin’s BlueHorizon ESL training and curriculum is built on more than two decades of preparing thousands of students around the world for success. Courses provide a unique learning experience based in language acquisition theory. Plus, our 3D teaching approach helps bridge the gap between passive understanding and active application for more successful language acquisition.