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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.

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?

The dimensions and levels of inclusive learning experience design (ILXD)

What’s needed to improve the inclusivity and accessibility of learning experience design?

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.

Our learning design process (Podcast episode 6)

In this post we share the stages of our Learning Design process that we go through when helping someone design a digital learning experience or course.

Understanding learner context: brain, body and beyond

For a learning designer, understanding a person’s micro and macro learning contexts is the first critical step in designing something that will work well for them individually.

An introduction to Design Thinking (Podcast episode 4)

In Episode 4 of our podcast, Adventures in Learning Design, Tim and Laurie explore design thinking and how it applies to our field of practice. This is an abridged version of that conversation.

Learning principle spotlight: Developing intrinsic motivation

A few of the LearnJam team share products that they feel effectively helped develop their intrinsic motivation. Great design is often invisible to the user, we don’t think about how something works until, well – it’s not working! If you follow us here LearnJam, you’ve probably heard us talking about how we use our Learning … Read more