Former U.S. Navy Surgeon General Bruce Gillingham Joins Amplifire as a Strategic Advisor

Boulder, Colorado, Sept. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Knowledge Factor, Inc. (“Amplifire”), the leading adaptive eLearning and content creation platform leveraging advances in brain science, and owner of the Healthcare Alliance, welcomes Dr. Bruce Gillingham to its Strategic Advisory Board. Gillingham will lend his expertise in healthcare innovation strategy and public service initiatives for the Healthcare Alliance, the Amplifire-founded collaborative consortium of over 25 leading U.S. health systems.

Gillingham’s partnership underscores Amplifire’s mission to revolutionize healthcare education and enhance patient care on a global scale. As the former 39th Surgeon General of the United States Navy, Gillingham recently retired from 40 years of active-duty service. During his tenure, he led approximately 44,000 Navy medical personnel through the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery’s (BUMED) most comprehensive transformation since World War II. Gillingham oversaw a shift in mission from oversight of military treatment facility-based care to expeditionary, operational support. Under his leadership, Navy Medicine provided the policy and guidance that ensured that the Navy and Marine Corps were able to operate around the globe continuously and safely during the pandemic. As one of the nation’s top minds in health operations, Gillingham gives Amplifire’s advisory board a critical edge.

“Bruce Gillingham’s integrity and reputation for establishing elite patient care in adverse environments is an invaluable resource to Amplifire in healthcare and beyond. His presence on our advisory board furthers our commitment to revolutionizing healthcare training, championing patient safety, bolstering public sector initiatives, and our overall public service agenda,” shared Bob Burgin, CEO of Amplifire. “It is a true honor to collaborate with Dr. Gillingham in our shared mission.”

“I’m thrilled to join the Amplifire team,” Bruce Gillingham expressed. “It’s readily apparent to me that those organizations which have adopted the Amplifire training platform have made demonstrable progress in improving staff performance at all levels. As a physician and healthcare executive, I see the Amplifire platform filling a critical gap in the crusade to eliminate preventable patient harm. I can’t wait to help expand the awareness and utilization of this paradigm shifting eLearning platform.”

During his career, Gillingham served throughout Navy Medicine as director of Pediatric Orthopedic and Scoliosis Surgery; Associate Orthopedic Residency Program director; and director of Surgical Services. He was the Officer in Charge of a Surgical/Shock Trauma Platoon that achieved 98% combat casualty survival during Operation Al Fajr, The Second Battle of Fallujah, in 2004. While assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego, he was instrumental in establishing the Comprehensive Combat and Complex Casualty Care Center. He was in command at the hospital, medical center, and enterprise level.

Gillingham’s awards include the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit (eight awards), Meritorious Service Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (two awards), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal with the Eagle Globe, and Anchor device with bronze star and the Fleet Marine Force ribbon.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology (with high honors) from the University of California, San Diego, and a Doctor of Medicine from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences where he is a Distinguished Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine. He is an inductee in the medical honor society of Alpha Omega Alpha and is a Certified Physician Executive.

About Amplifire
Amplifire is a next-generation learning platform with more than four billion learner interactions and is an innovator in high-stakes workforce training for critical roles. The platform harnesses advances in cognitive science to create personalized learning and drive successful outcomes. The platform’s adaptive algorithm guides learners to mastery across healthcare, government, military, food service, corporate, and education segments, providing unique learner analytics that offer valuable learner insights.

Amplifire, new member of the KLAS Arch Collaborative, shares exciting results around EHR training at 2023 Learning Summit

BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Knowledge Factor, Inc. (“Amplifire“), the leading adaptive eLearning and content creation platform leveraging advances in brain science, and sponsor of the Healthcare Alliance, a growing consortium of over 25 world-renowned U.S. health systems, was honored to present at the 2023 KLAS Arch Collaborative Learning Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, sharing results around electronic health records (EHR) training. As a new member of the Arch Collaborative, Amplifire joins hundreds of healthcare organizations revolutionizing healthcare quality by improving the EHR training experience. The Summit was Amplifire’s first opportunity to contribute to this initiative through partnerships and shared performance data.

Anna Eissenberg, Client Engagement Director, Amplifire, and Lindsay Coffman, Interim Director Clinical Informatics Education and Adoption, Providence, presented “Reimagining Epic Onboarding with Cognitive Science and Data.” Providence shared their transition from in-person training to online learning as part of a blended learning strategy with Amplifire to remedy costly training that lacked data insights. For inpatient nursing, they achieved a 41-48% training time reduction, saving $667,317 in Q1 2023. Learner analytics identified knowledge gaps and helped optimize the training experience and improve course content. Notably, clinician satisfaction metrics improved.

At the Learning Summit, a presentation by University of Washington and Tegria Healthcare & Technology Services also highlighted results from Amplifire-based EHR training. Keynote speaker Dr. Brent James, Amplifire Clinical Innovations Advisory Board Chairman, discussed tools that drive dramatic clinical change.

“The Amplifire team was thrilled that Healthcare Alliance members, Providence and UW Medicine, shared their insight among other thought leaders within the Arch Collaborative. Peer-to-peer guidance and inspiration are hallmarks of the Learning Summit, and Amplifire is gratified to empower a growing number of innovative health systems. Like KLAS, Amplifire is committed to improving caregiver wellness by enhancing training effectiveness and the learner experience,” noted Dr. Bryan Bushick, General Manager, Healthcare Alliance, and Amplifire’s Chief Healthcare Innovation Officer.

“KLAS is thrilled to have Amplifire as a part of the Arch Collaborative community and looks forward to measuring Amplifire’s impact on clinician experience. As a provider-led effort, the Arch Collaborative is supported by EHR vendors, professional services firms, and third-party education tools, like Amplifire, to share, learn, and improve the healthcare industry,” said Jenna Anderson, Strategy and Operations Director, Arch Collaborative.

Amplifire was also included in the recent KLAS report “EHR Education Software and Services: A Guide to Vendor and Firm Offerings.”

About Amplifire
Amplifire is a next-generation learning platform with more than four billion interactions and is an innovator in high-stakes training for critical roles. The Amplifire platform harnesses advances in cognitive science to create personalized learning and drive successful outcomes. The platform’s adaptive algorithm guides millions of learners to mastery across healthcare, government, and other segments, providing unique analytics that offer valuable learner insights.

Amplifire Appoints Kristie Invie as Senior Vice President, Reinforcing Commitment to Excellence in Healthcare

BOULDER, Colo., July 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Knowledge Factor, Inc. (“Amplifire“), the leading adaptive eLearning and content creation platform leveraging advances in brain science, and owner of the Healthcare Alliance, a consortium of over 20 world-renowned health systems in the United States; has announced Kristie Invie as Senior Vice President, Client Solutions, effective July 1, 2023. Invie successfully led client solutions for the last three years and is recognized for her commitment to our clients with this promotion and expanded responsibility. She continues to be a beacon of expertise, inspiration, and passion.

“Kristie exemplifies the qualities of an exceptional leader, and her passion personifies our mission. Her technical command, combined with genuine support, coaching, mentorship, and organization is truly inspiring. She brings sound logic, relentless drive, and compassion to everyone,” said Will Rideout, Chief Revenue Officer.

With over two decades of experience in provider and technology environments, Invie excels in leading teams focused on enhancing outcomes and efficiency through project management, quality improvement, data analysis, and training.

In her role as SVP, Invie expands her oversight to additional initiatives. She will continue to lead Client Solutions and drive growth in the Healthcare Alliance. She will serve as the company’s external subject matter expert and director in Quality and Safety initiatives, to which she brings expertise from her decade-plus Quality & Safety leadership roles at a leading Mid-West US health system. Additionally, she will provide oversight for emerging Alliances and innovative programs.

“I am incredibly humbled and honored to receive this promotion. I am excited to embrace this new chapter and seize every opportunity to make a positive impact within Amplifire. This milestone serves as a testament to the exceptional efforts of the incredible team I lead. Their unwavering dedication and relentless pursuit of excellence have been instrumental in our collective success,” said Invie. “As I embrace this new chapter, I am committed to continuing to foster a culture of innovation, empowerment, and growth and redefine what is possible here at Amplifire.”

About Amplifire
Amplifire is a next-generation adaptive learning platform with more than four billion learner interactions and is an innovator in high-stakes workforce training for critical roles. The Amplifire platform harnesses advances in cognitive and learning science to create personalized learning and drive successful outcomes. The platform’s adaptive algorithm guides millions of learners to mastery across healthcare, government, military, food service, corporate, and education segments, providing unique learner analytics that offer valuable learner insights.

Amplifire and BioIntelliSense Partner to Accelerate Continuous Care from In-Hospital to Home with Science-based, Adaptive Clinical Training

Boulder, CO. and Denver CO., May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Knowledge Factor, Inc. (“Amplifire”), the leading adaptive eLearning and content creation platform leveraging advances in brain science, has announced a collaboration with BioIntelliSense, a continuous health monitoring and clinical intelligence company, to provide an integrated solution to help healthcare professionals perform at their highest potential. The collaboration combines each company’s data science capabilities to optimize successful clinical workflow integration and support full-scale utilization of the FDA-cleared BioButton® and AlertWatch® solutions from in-hospital to home. This solution set is poised to enable improved provider satisfaction, workflow efficiency and cost savings for health systems.

By pairing BioIntelliSense solutions with the Amplifire platform, care providers have a unique opportunity to apply BioButton and AlertWatch technologies best practices and to see their value demonstrated in practical clinical applications. Built on patented cognitive science discoveries, the Amplifire adaptive platform finds and fixes learners’ knowledge gaps, uncertainties, and misinformation and demonstrates proof of learning in a fraction of the time of legacy training solutions. Coupled with the BioButton multi-parameter monitoring and its algorithmic-based insights, healthcare professionals focus on caregiving rather than manual data collection. In a time of record burnout, these solutions offer greater workflow efficiency and support to healthcare professionals. 

“We are excited to partner with BioIntelliSense to offer a unique and innovative solution to healthcare providers,” said Bob Burgin, CEO of Amplifire. “By combining our adaptive learning platform with BioIntelliSense’s continuous health monitoring solution, we can help caregivers better understand and manage their patients’ needs.” 

“Under this collaboration with Amplifire, we are creating a comprehensive training solution that streamlines the adoption and scaling of our continuous patient monitoring solution for healthcare providers to deliver better care,” said James Mault, MD, CEO of BioIntelliSense. “Together, we can improve the quality of care, reduce costs, and enhance the wellbeing of both patients and caregivers.” 

Furthermore, BioIntelliSense courseware will be available for use to improve patient care through the Amplifire Healthcare Alliance, a collaborative ecosystem where the world’s leading health systems co-develop both clinical and non-clinical solutions that solve some of the most complex challenges in care delivery, quality, safety and risk mitigation.  

About Amplifire  

Amplifire is a next-generation adaptive learning platform with more than three billion learner interactions and is an innovator in high-stakes workforce training for critical roles. The Amplifire platform harnesses advances in cognitive and learning science to create a personalized learning pathways and drive successful outcomes. The platform’s adaptive algorithm guides millions of learners to mastery across healthcare, government, military, food service, corporate, and education segments, providing unique learner analytics that offer valuable learner insights.

About BioIntelliSense 

BioIntelliSense is ushering in a new era of continuous health monitoring and clinical intelligence for remote patient monitoring (RPM) from in-hospital to home. Its medical-grade Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform seamlessly captures multi-parameter vital signs, physiological biometrics and symptomatic events through an effortless patient experience.

The FDA-cleared BioButton®^® wearable device and AlertWatch® clinical intelligence solution makes patient monitoring and early detection simple™. Through the platform’s advanced analytics, clinicians have access to high-resolution patient trending and reporting to enable medical-grade continuous care from in-hospital to home.

Learn how BioIntelliSense is redefining continuous patient monitoring through medical-grade and cost-effective data services or visit our website at BioIntelliSense. Follow BioIntelliSense on Twitter and LinkedIn for the latest news and information.

The 2022 Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Awards: Amplifire Wins Gold

BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Amplifire, a leader in innovative eLearning technology, won coveted Brandon Hall Group Gold awards for excellence in the Best Advance in Learning Management Technology for External Training and Best Advance in Business Strategy and Technology Innovation categories.

Amplifire’s win was announced on December 8, 2022. The winners are listed at https://excellenceawards.brandonhall.com/winners/

Amplifire’s eLearning platform integrates cutting-edge brain science discoveries from the company’s Science Advisory Board — the world’s leading experts in modern cognitive psychology and neuroscience — to transform workforce knowledge gaps into knowledge that sticks. In their award entry, Amplifire successfully demonstrated how the platform helps organizations solve problems that traditional learning and development approaches have not. Because an organization’s critical workforce is often the most important and expensive component of the operation, solving challenges in learning delivers both cultural and economic long-term value. The platform transforms the learning experience through unparalleled personalization and efficacy, helping users learn in half the time, remember twice as long, make fewer errors, and maximize workforce performance.

“We are honored to receive this award, and humbled to be recognized by an esteemed panel of industry experts,” said Amplifire CEO Bob Burgin. “This wouldn’t have been possible without the collaboration between our team members and clients, who have together advanced training results.”

“From our research, we know that more than half of organizations say it is critical to advance the HCM technology ecosystem to succeed in the future of work. Winners of our Excellence in Technology awards are the pace-setters in ensuring employers have the leading-edge tools they need to evolve and prosper in the challenging environment we all work in,” said Brandon Hall Group Chief Operating Officer and awards program head Rachel Cooke.

“We are honored to celebrate the foresight and ingenuity of our Technology award winners!” said Brandon Hall Group CEO Mike Cooke. “More than 80% of employers are optimistic about advancing digital transformation in 2023, our research shows, and that is because these organizations and individuals who are laser-focused on technology innovation.”

Entries were evaluated by a panel of veteran, independent senior industry experts, Brandon Hall Group analysts and executives based upon these criteria:

• Product: What is the product’s breakthrough innovation?
• Unique differentiators: What makes the product unique and how does it differ from any competing products?
• Value proposition: What problem does the product solve and/or what need does this product address?
• Measurable results: What are the benefits customers can expect to experience as a result of using this product?

Winners of our Excellence in Technology Awards are scheduled to be honored at Brandon Hall Group’s HCM Excellence Conference, Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2023, at the Hilton West Palm Beach, Florida.

About Amplifire

Amplifire is a next-generation knowledge engineering platform that has facilitated more than three billion learner interactions and has become the industry standard in high-stakes workforce training for critical professionals. The Amplifire platform uses advances in cognitive and learning science to assess learner knowledge, create a personalized learning pathway, identify, and remediate confidently held misinformation — instances where a learner is certain that they are correct but are wrong — and drive successful outcomes. The platform’s adaptive algorithm guides millions of learners to mastery across healthcare, government, military, food service, corporate, and education segments, providing unique learner analytics that offer valuable learner insights. Most notably, Amplifire has ignited a collaboration of esteemed health systems — the Healthcare Alliance — to reduce infection rates by 79%, correct dangerous misinformation, and shave hours from EHR training time.

About Brandon Hall Group

Brandon Hall Group operates the largest and longest running awards program in Human Capital Management. As an independent HCM research and analyst firm they conduct studies in Learning and Development, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Talent Acquisition and HR/Workforce Management. These benchmark studies help organizations by providing strategic insights for executives and practitioners responsible for growth and business results.

Coupling the research studies with the best practice from the awards, Brandon Hall Group has helped more than 10,000 clients globally and more than 28 years of delivering world-class research and advisory. At the core of our offerings is a membership program that combines research, benchmarking and unlimited access to data and analysts. Membership enables executives and practitioners to make the right decisions about people, processes, and systems, coalesced with analyst advisory services which aim to put the research into action in a way that is practical and efficient.

Brandon Hall Group has also launched professional certifications for business and human capital management professionals to upskill themselves and gain credentials for career advancement. (www.brandonhall.com)

Amplifire Announces Will Rideout as New Chief Revenue Officer

Knowledge Factor, Inc. (“Amplifire”), has announced Will Rideout as Chief Revenue Officer to take the company into its next generation of growth, following announcement of a large capital investment from Polaris Growth Partners.

BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Knowledge Factor, Inc. (“Amplifire”), the leading adaptive eLearning and content creation platform leveraging advances in brain science, and owner of the Healthcare Alliance, a consortium of over 20 world-renowned health systems in the United States; has announced Will Rideout as chief revenue officer to take the company into its next generation of growth. This decision follows the company’s recent announcement of a large investment from Polaris Growth Fund (“PGF”), a technology-focused private investment firm with over two decades of investing experience. Rideout previously helped drive a leading healthcare services company to explosive growth and a public offering, one of Polaris’s early investments.

“Will is a rare find. He is among a small group of people who have taken a company from a quarter of our size to ten times our size. His passion for people is contagious and his knowledge around systematically building a growth engine will help us to achieve our goal of having a major impact in high stakes human performance,” said Bob Burgin, CEO and founder of the Healthcare Alliance.

Rideout joins Amplifire at a period for accelerated growth and development and will be responsible for leading the company’s revenue growth strategy and execution. His expertise in growth operations and extensive background in health IT sales will complement the rapid, ongoing expansion of the Healthcare Alliance, a collaborative ecosystem where the world’s leading health systems co-develop both clinical and non-clinical solutions shown to meaningfully improve patient outcomes, reduce training time and costs, and increase revenue generating activities. The Alliance’s subject matter experts develop courses to rapidly onboard and train healthcare professionals, setting a new standard for quality management solutions. These courses are used in top hospitals nationally and are delivered via the Amplifire eLearning platform, powered by brain science.

“What this small group of people at Amplifire have built is one of the most interesting and high-impact companies I have ever encountered. Their partnerships with clients and members have created something really special. Now, with the backing of Polaris, we are generating a growth engine around their work. I am so impressed with the people and what they have accomplished. It is a real honor to join them in this mission,” said Rideout of his new role.

About Amplifire:

Amplifire is a next-generation knowledge engineering platform that has facilitated more than three billion learner interactions and has become the industry standard in high-stakes workforce training for critical professionals. The Amplifire platform uses advances in cognitive and learning science to assess learner knowledge, create a personalized learning pathway, identify, and remediate confidently held misinformation — instances where a learner is certain that they are correct but are wrong — and drive successful outcomes. The platform’s adaptive algorithm guides millions of learners to mastery across healthcare, government, military, food service, corporate, and education segments, providing unique learner analytics that offer valuable learner insights. Most notably, Amplifire has ignited a collaboration of esteemed health systems — the Healthcare Alliance — to reduce infection rates by 79%, correct dangerous misinformation, and shave hours from EHR training time.

Amplifire Receives Strategic Investment from Polaris Growth Fund

BOULDER, Colo., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Knowledge Factor, Inc. (“Amplifire”), the leading adaptive eLearning and content creation platform leveraging brain science, has received a strategic investment from Polaris Growth Fund (“PGF”). PGF is a technology-focused private investment firm with over two decades of investing experience. Several customers have also participated in the transaction. Chief Executive Officer Bob Burgin and the existing management team will continue to lead Amplifire.

Founded in 2000, Amplifire’s next-generation content creation and performance management technology platform has facilitated more than 3 billion learner interactions and has rapidly become the industry standard in high-stakes workforce training, enabling individuals to learn faster, retain knowledge longer, and perform better. The Amplifire platform uses advances in cognitive and learning science to assess learner knowledge, create a personalized learning pathway, identify and remediate confidently held misinformation — instances where a learner is certain that they are correct but are wrong — and drive successful outcomes.

The company has realized impressive growth driven largely by the development and expansion of Amplifire’s Healthcare Alliance. Through this collaborative ecosystem, Amplifire partners with many of the largest and highest rated health systems in the country to develop both clinical and non-clinical content designed to reduce training time and costs, increase revenue generating activities, and improve patient outcomes. Amplifire’s health system partners publish efficacy studies proving and quantifying the value in both the platform and co-developed content which can then be utilized by other health systems to address the same paint points. Together, these partnerships deliver unprecedented results around quality and safety, and physician and nurse rapid onboarding in this challenging time for the industry.

Bob Burgin, CEO, said, “Amplifire is at an exciting inflection point and we could not be more excited to partner with PGF to continue to provide best-in-class training content and performance management solutions for our customers. We look forward to leveraging PGF’s deep relationships within healthcare and tremendous track record to continue solving some of our customers most difficult challenges.”

“Amplifire has developed one of the most unique partnership business model approaches to solving complex problems that we have ever seen. This is further supported by the fact that multiple leading health system partners are joining us as investors in Amplifire to further deliver on their shared mission,” said Bryce Youngren, managing partner at PGF, who will join the Board of Directors.

“Amplifire is transforming how health systems train clinical and non-clinical staff across quality and safety, electronic health record, organizational culture, hospice and palliative care, obstetrics, and more. Amplifire’s platform allows customers to develop new content or leverage existing content, quantify financial and clinical improvements, and track results and remediate knowledge gaps across learner populations unlike any other eLearning tool we’ve come across. We look forward to supporting the team’s vision during this next stage of growth,” said Mark Jacobson, vice president at PGF who will also join the Board of Directors.

About Amplifire

Amplifire is a global learning company dedicated to training professionals using the latest in cognitive science. The Amplifire eLearning platform helps customers make learning stick, eliminate mistakes, and change behavior that results in enhanced performance and prosperity. Healthcare, education, and Fortune 500 companies use Amplifire’s patented learning algorithms, knowledge analytics, and diagnostic capabilities to drive improved outcomes that lead to an exceptional return on their investment in knowledge.

Amplifire Learning Achieves FedRAMP LI-SaaS Authorization

BOULDER, Colo., July 21, 2021/PRNewswire/ – Amplifire, the industry leader in adaptive learning software used by healthcare, education, and corporations, today announced that it has received FedRAMP LI-SaaS authorization.

FedRAMP is a government-wide program that promotes the adoption of secure cloud services across the federal government by providing a standardized approach to security and risk assessment for cloud technologies and federal agencies.

With an LI-SaaS authorization, government agencies such as the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and the Department of Defense (DOD) can use Amplifire’s adaptive learning platform to deploy essential courses designed to improve healthcare and business outcomes, while significantly improving the learning experience for federal government employees.

The Veterans Health Administration is the largest integrated health care system in the United States, providing care to over 9 million veterans enrolled in the VA health care program. In 2015 they launched the VHA Innovators Network (iNET), designed to empower its employees with innovative products and services to better serve veterans and their families.

The VA Rocky Mountain Network (VISN19) selected Amplifire as their vendor of choice for delivering training to their clinicians because it is an innovator in the learning technology space. Built on cognitive science principles, the Amplifire learning platform fosters rapid learning and long-term retention while adapting to each learners’ existing knowledge base. It fills knowledge gaps and uncertainty and is unique in its ability to detect and correct confidently held misinformation—a hidden risk that can hinder performance and lead to costly mistakes.

VISN19 is using Amplifire to deliver courses that focus on reducing Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HACs) such as Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) and Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI). So far, the CAUTI course has been deployed at the Salt Lake City location, with a rollout to Eastern Colorado to soon follow.

“It is an honor to support the VHA and their efforts to improve healthcare delivery and service for the Veteran community,” said Dr. Bryan Bushick, Amplifire’s General Manager, Healthcare, and the company’s Chief Healthcare Innovation Officer. “Amplifire’s adaptive learning platform and available healthcare courses help clinicians and healthcare systems improve performance, reduce risk and enhance caregiver wellness.”

About Amplifire
Recent discoveries in cognitive science have established a new era of greater human potential. The Amplifire learning platform uses these findings to help customers make learning stick, eliminate mistakes, and change behavior that results in enhanced performance and prosperity. Healthcare, education, and large corporations use Amplifire’s patented learning algorithms, knowledge analytics, and diagnostic capabilities to drive improved outcomes that lead to an exceptional return on their investment in knowledge.

Amplifire To Launch New MAX 737 Return to Service Course

BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Amplifire is proud to announce it has worked with Canadian airline WestJet to develop a B737 MAX Return to Service course. The course will be used as a part of the training to help pilots prepare for the MAX return to Canadian skies. It is being distributed to WestJet pilots between December 2020 and March 2021.

The new course consists of two modules; one on Ground Operations and the other on Flight Operations which focus on the recent changes to the MCAS function. The Amplifire course is layered in between Boeing’s CBT modules and learning literature to act as a knowledge check and provide evidence of learning. Once pilots have mastered the course, they will receive simulator training to put their knowledge into practice and demonstrate proficiency.

“Utilization of the Amplifire software tool provides user training using unique brain science-based learning and is a powerful tool for Evidence-Based Training (EBT) that will use actual WestJet Pilot data to help Flight Operations shape dedicated areas of focus,” said Jimmy Dean Porter, WestJet’s Chief Pilot and co-developer of the course.

Built on the latest cognitive science principles, the platform’s algorithms adapt to fill each individual’s unique learning needs. Learner analytics provide valuable managerial insights into learner progress, mastery, struggle, and precision guidance for personalized coaching.

“We are honored to work with WestJet in deploying this course,” said Dan Morley, VP of Amplifire. “The platform is another tool that ensures the safety of WestJet’s guests and crews as they return their MAX aircraft to service.”

“The work by Transport Canada and other independent regulators around the globe, in combination with our own preparation, processes and due diligence, gives us confidence in safely returning these aircraft to service,” continued Porter.

About Amplifire

21st century discoveries in cognitive science have established a new era of greater human potential. The Amplifire eLearning platform uses these findings to help our customers make learning stick, eliminate mistakes, and change behavior that results in enhanced performance and prosperity.  Healthcare, education, and Fortune 500 companies use Amplifire’s patented learning algorithms, knowledge analytics, and diagnostic capabilities to drive improved outcomes that lead to an exceptional return on their investment in knowledge.

Amplifire Secures Patent for Analytics Regarding the Confidence of Learners

BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Amplifire, an eLearning company, announced today the award of an additional patent by the United States Patent Office. Amplifire holds patents issued in the US, EU, Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, and other countries and jurisdictions worldwide. The new patent is titled Display and Report Generation Platform for Testing Results.

The new patent, US Patent No. 10,803,765, is directed to aspects of Amplifire’s learning platform, which includes unique Answer Key and Reporting Dashboard features. The Answer Key allows learners to signify both their confidence and answer choice in one click, which fosters greater metacognition. The Reporting Dashboard builds visual analytics displaying a learner’s misinformation, uncertainty, and struggle in bar charts and heatmaps. Search and sorting features allow managers or instructors to see their organization’s knowledge at any scale, from individual to team to division, and across the enterprise.

“Our customers view knowledge as a strategic way to compete.”

Confidence measures shown in the reporting dashboard are essential because confidence is the precursor to human behavior. It appears as internal thoughts such as, “I’ve got this,” or, “I haven’t a clue what to do.” The Amplifire dashboard reports and sorts using the confidence a learner displayed when they answered questions in the assessment phase of learning and subsequent refreshers. The most dangerous form of confidence occurs when a learner is sure but incorrect, referred to as confidently held misinformation, driving them towards a mistake.

The ability to see how confidence is bound to knowledge gives learning officers, administrators, and instructors a window into the risk of future mistakes in their workforce. Visualizing human fallibilities such as misinformation, uncertainty, and struggle lends unprecedented guidance to managers and instructors. For the first time, they can see the people who improve in the platform, where pockets of risk lie, and who needs at-the-elbow help.

Amplifire CEO, Bob Burgin, noted, “We are proud that the US Patent Office noticed our reporting dashboard’s unique features and awarded our efforts with a patent. Amplifire’s product development team regularly thinks up new ways to help people overcome the knowledge problems inherent in the human condition. Our customers view knowledge as a way to compete. They understand it’s strategically in their interest to help their people reach new levels of performance.”

About Amplifire

With over 2.4 billion learner interactions, Amplifire (www.amplifire.com) is the leading adaptive learning platform built from discoveries in brain science that help learners master information faster, retain knowledge longer, and perform their jobs better. It detects and corrects the knowledge gaps and misinformation that exist in the minds of all humans so they can better attain their real potential. Healthcare, education, and Fortune 500 companies use Amplifire’s patented learning algorithms, analytics, and diagnostics to drive exceptional outcomes with a significant return on their investment.