Beyond Bloom’s with Fink’s Significant Learning Outcomes

In the mid 20th Century, Benjamin Bloom and his team set out to boldly map the full landscape of human capability. The thing is, if you look at how his work is actually used in the wild today, you’ll find a highly flattened, single-dimension version of his original vision. To Bloom and his team’s credit,…

A Microcredential Case Study

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Perspectives in Learning Design Project Groups

Case Study: Nurse Onboarding Education Program and Platform

The Challenge BC Children’s Hospital Specialty Nursing Programs deliver essential on-the-job learning for newly qualified nurses. They had seen curriculum and learning platform work we had provided for other services and were interested in how we could support the overhaul of their programs. Having worked with teams across the BC Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA)…

Making Theory Personal

Ever stumbled upon a concept or a theory that just clicks? That sudden rush of understanding, where everything falls into place? I’ve experienced this magical moment twice in my professional life, and it’s been nothing short of transformative, not just for my career but for how I view the world. One such moment was at…

Supporting Community Legal Education in Ontario

Great project just wrapping up: a learning platform and course design project lead by legal education specialist Michelle Cader at CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario) and OLA (Ontario Library Association) working closely with our partners The Alina Group in Toronto. We used our Learnbase Video Workbook plugin within the WordPress LMS Learndash in the Social Learner Theme…

Artists’ Careers Transformed by Rethinking the Business of Art

Client: Crista Cloutier’s The Working Artist program. Product: Multiple courses and full-stack WordPress course and business platform. Highlight: The real and measurable impact that the course has had in transforming the practice and lives of so many artists around the world. Winning awards. Results: Providing a significant source of income for the client over the…

Video-led lessons bring interactive video to online learning

What is Video-led Learning? Video-led learning is our core approach that places video at the heart of the flow of lesson stages, not just a piece of subject matter content within a lesson stage. Online learning incorporating video-led lessons: how is this different to conventional video? The video has both the  facilitator’s voice and the…

Stealth Learning for Mental Health Clinicians and Support Staff

The Challenge We had conducted an in-depth research and educational strategy project for Compass Mental Health, a new division within the BC Provincial Health Authority aimed at supporting all levels of clinician and non-clinician staff supporting child and youth mental health in different capacities. One thing was clear. The clinicians did not want ‘more modules’…

Direct Learning Access for Public-Health Education

  The task To make an online version of a successful Rolling with ADHD course for parents of children with ADHD, delivered by BC Children’s Hospital. The original ask was that the course would be delivered via a WordPress LMS. Target Audience Tired parents of demanding children! Basically we were competing with Netflix in the…