Less is (nearly always) more
You’ve probably heard the old adage, ‘less is more’. But how does this apply to learning design and content development? How might we go against our instinct to keep adding?
The role of multimedia in online learning. Hint: It’s not all videos!
How might we best leverage video to create an active learning experience? In this post, we combine our learning design experience and expertise with Creative Listening’s, a video production company with more than 12 years’ experience.
Why a solid foundation must come first in learning design
Creating an effective and inclusive learning product is challenging and complex, but by addressing the foundations of your learning design approach, you create an opportunity to make a genuinely impactful and engaging experience for learners and also ensure that it has a positive impact on your business.
Reduced working hours: A nice idea… for someone else?
There are several common and perfectly understandable objections to the notion of reduced working hours. We’ve encountered and discussed many of these at LearnJam, and we’d like to share where we got to.
Education at heart of sustainable future
The future of humanity depends on how well we can move towards more sustainable, equitable and healthy ways of living. A reworked education system to serve this purpose can drive the changes we need.
Our four-day week: shorter and better
LearnJam now operates a 4-day work week. This means we’re away from our desks on Fridays, spending time resting, learning, being with friends and family and doing the things that energise and inspire us.
Being a more inclusive teacher: learnings from the UK context
In this guest post, Michelle Mangal – educational consultant, creative and teacher – shares her perspective on how teachers can foster a more inclusive learning environment.
What is microlearning?
Microlearning is an approach to training that delivers content in short, focused bites. Find out more about its pros and cons.
How to storyboard a learning experience
An effective learning journey needs to have a clear destination and a clear origin. Without these, it’s more or less impossible to make decisions about the sequence of learning interactions, modes and experiences a learner needs to move through in order to reach their goals.
Moving towards an inclusive mindset
Many of us sincerely believe that the world could be a fairer, more inclusive place – and that we all have a role to play in shaping this vision of a better future. But where to begin?
An introduction to Inclusive Learning Experience Design – ILXD
The phrase “build back better” has frequently been used in reference to the global lockdown as a golden opportunity to reflect and improve on the way that various social and educational systems work. We can do better than just returning to how things were before. But we think we should be aiming for more than just “build back better”. We want to build back fairer.
The dimensions and levels of inclusive learning experience design (ILXD)
What’s needed to improve the inclusivity and accessibility of learning experience design?
What makes an effective learning experience?
What really works in learning? To find the answers to this we carried out a massive research project to seek out the evidence from learning research, cognitive psychology and neuroscience.
How we researched our learning design principles (Podcast episode 10)
Laura Patsko talks about how she tackled researching and compiling our Learning Design Principles.
5 things that surprised us about EDI (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion)
We’ve been surprised by some of the things we’ve learned through our research into tackling equality, diversity and inclusivity (EDI) challenges in online learning.
5 resources that have changed how we think about EDI
Towards the end of 2020, we launched a new EDI project with Innovate UK into what more inclusive learning experience design looks like. Here are 5 resources that have been especially influential in our thinking so far …
Motivation (Podcast episode 9)
Motivation is one of the most important learning design principles – but also one of the most difficult to design for.
Moving towards more inclusive learning design with Innovate UK
We’re working on a new project funded by Innovate UK which aims to address inequalities in inclusivity and access in learning design that have been brought to the forefront as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Innovation (Podcast Episode 8)
We had a chat with fellow LearnJam co-founder, Nick Robinson, about whether people can learn to be innovative and what innovation looks like in an organisation.
Dyslexia and learning design (Podcast episode 7)
We sat down with Martin Bloomfield, author of Dyslexia Bytes, to talk about dyslexia and to explore what we need to know about it in Learning Design.
