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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)…

How can making theory personal transform your professional life?

Making theory personal can transform your professional life by fostering a sudden rush of understanding where concepts click and everything falls into place. This transformative experience, as described by the author, has profound impacts on career and worldview, often occurring through moments of deep insight into complex ideas.

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…

Nurturing Deep Ethical Awareness in ECE Professionals

The Challenge When ECEBC received funding from the Ministry for Children and Family Development to review and update the ECEBC Code of Ethics and accompanying Best Choices program they asked us to help. The Code is the cornerstone of ethical practice and decision making within the early childhood education sector in BC and beyond, and…

Strategizing Health Literacy with Integral Learning and Development

The Challenge BC Children’s Hospital Health Promotion and Health Literacy Department commissioned Learnbase to produce a research-based education strategy. Research findings were acquired through the systematic gathering of both qualitative and quantitative data. Findings were used to generate insight and recommendations. The general goal of the research is to support the department’s vision to: become…