We take a broad view looking for inspiration in the present and throughout history.
We try to remain ‘tool and platform agnostic’. Yes, we have our favourite tools and platforms, but focussing on the tool or media rather than the learners’ needs, rarely produces great learning outcomes.
Here are a few subjects, philosophies and tools we’ve found to produce maximum impact when implemented to address the learners needs.
Making learning as awesome as possible started millennia ago.
Aristotle was a popular pupil of the famous ancient Greek philosopher Plato. But unlike Plato and Socrates, Aristotle displayed an instinct to use scientific and factual reasoning in his study of nature. Perhaps it was because of his unyielding fascination for nature, logic, and reason that his pivotal contributions are still reflected in modern-day mathematics, metaphysics, physics, biology, botany, politics, medicine, and many more.
The ancient philosophers never knew about eLearning, online meetings or things like Agile or digital marketing techniques. They were certainly never told ‘You’re on mute!’ But still to this day, their teachings remain as valid and important as they were over 2000 years ago.
Just like Aristotle, we also ask ourselves, who should we learn from now?
Here are just a few of the incredible minds we take inspiration from:
- Richard Mayer and Ruth Clark – researchers in the empirical testing of media and media mix hypotheses in online learning.
- Bob Mosher – An active and influential leader in the learning and training industry for over 30 years.
- Cathy Moore – Internationally recognized training designer dedicated to saving the world from boring instruction.
- Donald Clark – One of the greatest minds in the UK training industry and a pretty good blogger.
- Rob Hubbard – Co-author of The Really Useful eLearning Instruction Manual featuring contributions from the brightest and best elearning minds on both sides of the Atlantic.
Tools, Platforms and Software
A small selection of some of our favourite tools along with some newer solutions that are getting us excited.
Articulate 360 includes both Storyline 360 and Rise 360, plus a slew of other authoring apps. Considered by many to be the #1 authoring tool.
Adapt helps replace traditional page-turning content with exploratory, deep scrolling design built once for any modern device.
iorad takes screen capturing to a whole new level. Visualizing a process online can take huge amounts of time, but not with this Tutorial Builder. It supercharges your capturing capabilities by watching what you do on screen and how you do it.
Evolve is an intuitive tool for powerful eLearning content. Its rich set of features gives you total control of every aspect of course creation and presentation.
Human avatars powered by A.I. Hollywood quality at an accessible price! Create engaging videos with your fingertips. No cameras, lights, or microphones required. They even got David Backham speaking 9 languages!
Polly allows you to create applications and training solutions that talk. Polly’s Text-to-Speech (TTS) service uses advanced deep learning technologies to synthesize natural sounding human speech.
TechSmith’s software is regularly recognized as the best in the industry. In 2021, Camtasia was awarded the “Employee Training Solution of the Year” by the RemoteTech Breakthrough Awards.
Create beautiful microlearning, training videos, and eLearning courses in any design style – from animated to whiteboard and real-life footage, deliver inspirational learning experiences every time.
Totara’s enterprise learning management system provides a solution that adapts to the unique needs of your business.
Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised learning environments.
LearnDash course content is structured using leading online learning principles to maximize your content delivery and increase completion rates. Create a learning experience, not just courses, as a seamless extension of you and your brand.