Back in 1988, Jack Sherdel opened the Digitec corporate headquarters in Orlando, Florida. At the time, The Walt Disney Company, Universal Studios and Nickelodeon all had production studios in Orlando, and Jack saw the opportunity.

The Name

When Jack Sherdel started Digitec, one of our clients was The Walt Disney Company, specifically Walt Disney World in Orlando. Digitec began by supplying digital technology to the Magic Kingdom for audio and video postproduction. And so, the name emerged: “Digital” “Technology” or Digitec.

New Media

During the 1990s, Digitec worked with many studios and production companies, producing and editing feature films and television shows. That heritage taught us a few things about production values, delivery schedules, and flexible working hours (if necessary, nights, weekends, whatever it takes to get the job done).

The internet opened up new opportunities for entertainment, commerce and education, and so we took this background and brought it to this new media.

In 1999, Jack Sherdel partnered with Jack McGrath — a digital media producer with a strong background in new media marketing and eLearning. McGrath’s philosophy — combine creativity and technology to bring innovation to clients — enabled Digitec to develop a strong team of developers and producers to create digital media productions for clients including The Walt Disney Company, NBC/Universal, Microsoft, Symantec, VMWare, Yum! Brands, Prentice Hall, and many others.

There has been one simple rule that has guided our company:

1. If you don’t go above and beyond for your clients, someone else will.

Digitec specializes in eLearning and web-based application development, with full-service digital media production facilities in Orlando, Florida and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Learning Solutions

Digitec produces award-winning game-based eLearning content and learning management applications, including the Knowledge Direct® suite of applications. Digitec also creates educational game engines, including the Multiplayer Challenge Game, which has been used by Cisco Systems for real-time, online CCNA certification test preparation.

Knowledge Direct has been cited for the second year in a row in the study, “Rapid eLearning: What Works” published by the independent analyst Bersin & Associates.

Digitec’s staff has been actively involved with the design and development of interactive learning since the 1990s, and is nationally recognized for their custom eLearning design and development. In 2002 and 2004, Digitec was the winner of a nationally renowned Brandon-Hall.com Excellence in Elearning award for e-Learning providers. In 2005 Digitec won the prestigious Technology and Learning Award of Excellence. Digitec Interactive has also won the 2010 Chief Learning Officer Learning in Practice Excellence in Simulations and Games award and is currently nominated for Elearning! Magazine’s Best of 2010 award and the Brandon-Hall.com Excellence in Technology award for their best-in-class Learning Management System (LMS), Knowledge Direct. Digitec Interactive and the Knowledge Direct platform were also honored by Training Industry, Inc. by being named to the 2010 Top 20 Learning Portal Companies Watch List.

Digitec has presented on game-based learning, speaking at national conferences, including TechLearn, ASTD, Training, eLearning Guild and the Financial eLearning conference in New York. Digitec’s instructional designs and products reflect the Play to Teach Gamespace Continuum, which leverages game theory and delivers effective embedded, collaborative, game-based simulations and immersive learning environments.

eLearning clients include Cisco Systems, Symantec Corporation, Yum! Brands, Pearson Education, AAA, Junior Achievement Worldwide, InCharge Education, FINRA, and many others.

The Digitec Difference

Digitec provides the in-house creative and production to design and develop the content and deliver the eLearning through Knowledge Direct, with built-in student registration, ecommerce, test engine and web-based reporting tools.

Tomorrow is all Fun and Games

With the explosion of video game technology and social networking applications, Digitec is developing new tools and engines to enable training departments and instructional designers to leverage game strategies and networks to create adaptive, simulated environments for continual education. We need to visualize a world where learning is targeted, relevant and engaging.

Digitec-Orlando
6000 MetroWest Blvd. Suite 200
Orlando, FL 32835
Telephone: 1.800.942.4537
Fax: 407.294.1431

Digitec-San Juan
360 Calle Angel Buonomo Suite 101
San Juan, PR 00918
Telephone: 787.754.6363
Fax: 787.756.5486