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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…
Read MoreEffective 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…
Read MoreLearndash 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…
Read MoreWhat 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…
Read MoreTaking 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…
Read MoreIndigenous 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…
Read MoreStreamlining ADHD Diagnosis and Support Across Canada
The Challenge The Canadian ADHD Resource Alliance (CADDRA) approached us with two separate requests: > To build a secure, paperless system to solve the problem of how clinicians can send, receive and rapidly analyze and diagnose patients with ADHD (and associated conditions like anxiety) > To build education around the CADDRA recommended steps for diagnosing…
Read MoreLifelong Learning Resource Supports Professionals Supporting Mental Health
The Challenge BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services approached us to build a web application to support lifelong learning for professionals of many levels working with mental health and substance use patients. BCMHSUS had already created the prototype in a PDF form. It enabled professionals to assess their current competencies pertaining to domains of…
Read MoreHypnotist in the classroom? The power of a teacher’s words.
A couple of years back, we helped a hypnotherapy school take their course into an online format. What really struck me when we were making this course were two huge core understandings that are sadly lacking from both teacher training and learning design, and that should be absolutely intrinsic to educational practice. In this post…
Read MoreQuicklist: Ten learning activities with Learnbase Video Workbooks
Today our morning challenge was to give ourselves 5 minutes to come up with creative learner activities using the Learnbase Video Workbook…these were the first 10 11 creative learning techniques that popped into our heads! Notice While watching role play simulation in the video, learners can check off items from check list of behaviours they notice. Pace …
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