{ "siteTitle": "Graduate School USA: Advanced eLearning for the Federal HR Workforce", "tagline": "Delivered at scale. Prove mastery, not seat time.", "hero": { "eyebrow": "", "headline": "A Learning Experience Architecture for the federal HR workforce", "subhead": "Graduate School USA designs, delivers, and credentials modular eLearning across the federal HR curriculum. Run it on our LMS or sync content and learner records to a client's by API, with an AI coach, evidence-based credentialing, and analytics built in. A working platform you can see today." }, "stats": "$common:stats", "sections": [ { "id": "platform", "nav": "See the platform", "heading": "Inside the LMS: real screens, one platform", "body": "Everything below runs today in Graduate School USA's LMS. Slide through the actual learner experience: interactive practice, the grounded AI Coach, authority-ranked sources on every slide, the searchable glossary and curated federal authorities, and the analytics that feed the learning-record store.", "block": "gallery" }, { "id": "learning-experience-architecture", "nav": "The architecture", "heading": "HR Learning Experience Architecture", "body": "Every module aligns with a measurable job outcome and its governing authority, confirming learners reach it. GSUSA authors content as portable, time-estimated units that recombine into 1-to-6-hour blocks and full credential tracks, so a module built for one area drops into any pathway with no rebuild.", "image": { "src": "media/sec-elearning.jpg", "alt": "A learner working on a laptop beside Graduate School USA course materials", "side": "left" }, "bullets": [ "Modular content: independently versioned units, recombined into tracks", "Adaptive pathways: branching scenarios with recorded decision paths", "A learning-record store shaped to xAPI, feeding analytics today", "Designed-versus-actual seat-time calibration from real learner data" ] }, { "id": "portability", "nav": "Portability", "heading": "Open standards and API integration", "body": "Graduate School USA authors content in open, transferable formats, and learner records export to open CSV and PDF files. An API path can sync content and records with client systems and LMS platforms.", "image": { "src": "media/sec-welcome.jpg", "alt": "Graduate School USA staff welcoming colleagues in the office", "side": "right" }, "bullets": [ "Learner records export to open CSV and PDF, the same numbers shown on screen", "xAPI, cmi5, and SCORM export we build in-house over the records, no proprietary stack", "API integration to sync content and learner records with client systems", "Runs on our LMS or exports into another conformant LMS" ] }, { "id": "interactive-learning", "nav": "Interactive learning", "heading": "Hands-on practice, real instructors, AI support", "body": "Learners do the work, not just read slides. Modules mix thirteen interactive element types, from branching scenarios to knowledge checks, so HR specialists practice judgment on realistic federal situations. On open-ended work, the AI HR Coach gives instant, source-grounded feedback that a human instructor can review or override before it reaches the learner. Live cohorts and self-paced study run off one curriculum.", "bullets": [ "13 interactive element types, including scenarios, branching, matching, ranking, exercises, short answer, knowledge checks, and flashcards", "AI HR Coach gives instant, source-grounded feedback on open-ended work", "Instructors review and can override AI responses, and grade high-stakes work themselves", "Animated lesson videos with captions, and blended live plus self-paced delivery from one curriculum" ], "video": { "src": "media/labr7111-welcome.mp4", "poster": "media/labr7111-welcome-poster.webp", "captions": "media/labr7111-welcome.vtt", "ariaLabel": "Federal Employee Relations (Basic): Welcome and Course Orientation", "caption": "A real lesson from Federal Employee Relations (Basic), course LABR7111: the Welcome and Course Orientation, delivered by faculty instructor Veroneca Burgess, with synchronized captions.", "side": "left" } }, { "id": "ai-hr-coach", "nav": "AI HR Coach", "heading": "An AI HR Coach anchored to vetted authority", "body": "The AI HR Coach answers only from authored curriculum and vetted sources, ranked across four authority tiers so statute and agency guidance outrank secondary material. Before answers reach a learner, an automated check verifies that quoted passages appear in the cited source and removes any that don't, instead of relying on the AI's judgment.", "image": { "src": "media/sec-learner.jpg", "alt": "A learner studying on a laptop in a Graduate School USA workspace", "side": "right" }, "bullets": [ "Grounded only in vetted curriculum and four-tier federal authorities", "Deterministic citation gate verifies every source before display", "Available to enrolled and unenrolled HR staff alike" ] }, { "id": "accurate-current", "nav": "Accurate & current", "heading": "Cited to the authority, updated as the rules change", "body": "Federal HR law, policy, and procedures change, and GSUSA's training changes with them. Every content slide cites its governing source, statute, 5 CFR, agency guidance, or GAO, ranked so primary law outranks secondary material. When a rule changes, we update the content centrally and it reaches every enrolled learner, so training always reflects the current requirements.", "image": { "src": "media/sec-instructor.webp", "alt": "A Graduate School USA instructor leading a session in front of a projected course page", "side": "left" }, "bullets": [ "Slide-level citations to statute, 5 CFR, agency guidance, and GAO, ranked by authority", "Content updated centrally as law, policy, and procedures change, then pushed to every enrolled learner", "Learners are moved onto the current version, so no one stays on outdated material", "Authored and maintained by instructors with decades of federal HR service" ] }, { "id": "coverage", "nav": "15 functional areas", "heading": "We already teach the federal HR curriculum", "body": "Graduate School USA has trained the federal workforce since 1921, and its published catalog covers federal HR from entry to advanced across all 15 functional areas with real, instructor-tested courses. Agencies can request content tailoring to match their specific scenarios rather than commissioning it from a blank page. The table below maps each functional area to existing GSUSA content.", "block": "maptable" }, { "id": "credentialing", "nav": "Credentialing", "heading": "FAC-style credentialing", "body": "We sequence each functional area as prerequisite-gated tracks: entry, intermediate, and advanced. Learners must pass an evidence-backed exam to progress to the next tier, the graduated-progression model behind the Federal Acquisition Certification (FAC).", "block": "ladder" }, "$common:sections.whyGsusa" ], "areas": "$common:areas", "areasTable": "$common:areasTable", "ladder": "$common:ladder", "cta": { "heading": "See it running now on live content", "body": "Contact Graduate School USA for a live platform demonstration. We will walk through the analytics, the learning-record store, adaptive pathways, evidence-backed credentialing, and agency-level reporting. A virtual demonstration is available now.", "buttonLabel": "Request a demonstration", "mailSubject": "Capability demonstration request", "contactName": "$common:contact.name", "contactEmail": "$common:contact.email", "contactPhone": "$common:contact.phone" }, "footer": "$common:footer" }