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Mapping Tasks, Tools and Technologies

So far we’ve discussed more theoretical aspects of the Learnbase Learning Focus Map, part of our adaptation and application of Integral Theory to adult learning design. In this post we’ll bring it sharply into focus with a look at how specific tools, tasks and technologies map onto specific quadrants. Let’s quickly revisit the four quadrants…

Mapping Approaches on the Learnbase Learning Focus Map

In our last two posts we introduced The Learnbase Learning Focus Map and then explored its axes and quadrants that we have based on Wilber’s Four-Quadrant model. Today, we look at how we can apply the Learnbase Learning Focus Map in a practical way to support project planning. If you didn’t catch the previous two…

Explaining Learnbase’s Learning Focus Map

In our previous post, Introducing Learnbase’s Learning Focus Map, we provided a brief background to the Learning Focus Map. In this post we’ll walk you through The Focus Map in a slightly theoretical way. Focus Map Overview The Learning Focus Map is inspired by and borrows from an aspect of Integral Theory developed by…

Introducing Learnbase’s Learning Focus Map

Central to our approach in almost every aspect of what we do at Learnbase is the Learning Focus Map. It’s proven to be an essential tool in supporting collaborative conversations around analyzing and planning learning design as well as product development approaches, tools and tasks. Learnbase’s Learning Focus Map builds directly on philosopher Ken Wilber’s…

Effective Strategies to Support Teachers with ADHD Learners

And so….this started out as a project with BC Children’s Hospital to produce a video series of eight ten-minute videos providing school teachers with information about how to optimize their classes for ADHD students. The project blossomed into something VERY different from the original expectations. Research indicated that the teachers wanted highly practical strategies that…

Providing Essential Mental Health Rights Information and Reassurance for Recently Certified Youth

The Challenge In 2019 we were approached by The Health Literacy Team, part of the BC Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA). The aim of the Health Literacy Team is to enhance the physical and mental health and well-being of BC’s children, youth, and families through health promotion and health literacy. The project lead explained…

Learndash Users: Is It Worth Upgrading To The New BuddyBoss Platform?

Learndash is the most popular Learning Management System for WordPress. It’s functionality for administering and organizing course material is outstanding. But getting it to look great and interact with a lot of other ingredients that you might want is definitely a learning curve. That’s where BuddyBoss’s Social Learner theme came in. As a learning design…

What happens when you use interactive video learning in your online courses?

Interactive video sounds complex, but with some simple tools and a small shift in approach it will significantly impact your learning design. You can start planning and thinking like a teacher again – not a technician in a virtual landscape. So here, I’m not discussing how to do interactive video, but what starts to happen…

Taking Impactful ADHD Support for Parents from 30 to 5000 Learners a year.

Client: BC Children’s Hospital / Provincial Health Services Authority (BC) Product: Rolling with ADHD, an eight-module course for parents of children with ADHD. Highlight: Unique course delivery using Learnbase Video Lesson Makers to avoid requirement for LMS for target learners. Results: Ability to expand learners reached from 30 to 5000+ annually. Rolling with ADHD was…

Indigenous Partnership Reclaims Outdoors for Early Childhood Education

The Challenge Early Child Education BC (ECEBC) and BC Aboriginal Child Care Society (BCACCS) were asked to produce a groundbreaking course to help Early Childhood Educators and Centre Managers to really reframe the outdoors as the central focus of early childhood education. They asked Learnbase to help strategize and produce the course. Our Solution…