Supporting Moodle course delivery for rural communities
/ Kate Spezowka
When Canada’s largest provincial remote-learning support network required Moodle expertise to support a northern Ontario public university dedicated to cross-cultural and Indigenous-focused education, it turned to Limestone Learning.
Our team revised course templates, uploaded hundreds of courses and supported faculty through training and troubleshooting. The project expanded to include two more clients — a school board and an Indigenous organization — each with unique platform needs. With added project management support and a focus on best practices, we helped ensure smooth, scalable delivery of asynchronous learning across multiple Moodle environments.
Read the case study to find out how Limestone resolved technical and instructional challenges while supporting hundreds of courses and diverse teams.
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Here at Limestone Learning, demand for our high-quality learning solutions continues to grow. As such, we’re currently seeking an experienced Metro Vancouver, BC-based elearning development lead to join our growing team of contractors, help create top-notch elearning solutions for our expanding roster of enterprise public- and private-sector clients — and help our team to reach new heights!
Elearning has become a vital tool for education and professional development, transcending traditional barriers to learning. May 16 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, so it’s the perfect time to reflect on the accessibility of online learning and online training resources.
Occasionally, we come across an article that sums up our philosophy perfectly: Simply learning is not enough — doing is what matters. Talent LMS took on a subject that’s dear to our hearts: knowledge vs. skill. For anyone who’s ever developed a set of effective learning objectives, this is the crux of instructional design.
Limestone Learning recently developed a series of online tutorials for Health Emergency Management BC (HEMBC) designed to prepare hospital staff across BC to respond to a new type of emergency.
In previous posts we’ve talked about the benefits of being a lifelong learner. But did you know? It’s never been easier to access learning resources online. Here’s a brief sampling of websites that offer everything from quick how-to instructions to full university courses — often free of charge!
We’re currently seeking an experienced Canada-based contract instructional designer, elearning specialist and elearning LMS specialist to join our growing team at Limestone Learning, to help create top-notch elearning, instructor-led training (ILT) and blended solutions for our clients.
Two months into the coronavirus shutdown, many organizations are still reeling financially and struggling to get a foothold in a business world that is now mostly virtual. Even before the crisis, new technology was disrupting jobs and rewriting skill sets, but the coronavirus has turned a gradual trend into an immediate imperative.
We’re in strange times, but they’re not feeling new anymore. A big part of the new reality is moving classroom-based learning to online platforms. Depending on how much online training an organization does already, this transition may be relatively smooth, or terribly painful. Luckily, there are a lot of resources out there to help ease the transition.
If the first week of having kids home from school — yet technically back in school — didn’t bring it home for us, things are changing rapidly. COVID-19 has forced all kinds of institutions and organizations to make a quick pivot to online learning and information sharing.
With the whole world scrambling to figure out how to carry on with business in the face of the novel coronavirus, many organizations are dipping their toes for the first time into virtual work. What this looks like for a given organization depends on the nature of its business.
We’re currently seeking experienced Vancouver, BC-based instructional designers and a contract editor / quality control specialist to join our growing team at Limestone Learning, to help build top-notch elearning, instructor-led training and blended solutions for our clients.
I was recently searching online for a topic related to learning and development (L&D) and came across an excellent blog post by Sparkol on classic storytelling techniques for creating engaging presentations. The article explains eight different types, how they can best be used and links to examples on how the technique is used.
If spend much time online, you’ve probably run across an ad for Blinkist, a German app that provides audio and print summaries of non-fiction books, delivering the key takeaways from a book in about 15 minutes. In its ads, Blinkist positions its product several ways—but what is it really?
I recently attended a two-day online ELearning Guild Science of Learning Summit presented by eight L&D industry leaders. The sessions were really informative and validated how we design and develop learning solutions for our clients at Limestone. I thought I’d share some of the highlights of the summit—ideas and approaches that I found interesting and thought-provoking.
If you’re hearing the term “lifelong learning” bandied about, you’re not alone. It’s part of having a “growth mindset” versus a “fixed mindset,” having flexibility about approaches and methodologies, and realizing that both culture, technology, and the economic environment are constantly changing how we absorb information.
Although we’re in the business of creating and providing learning opportunities for our clients, many of us forget about our own ongoing self-development and learning. How can we provide relevant and current learning solutions to our clients if we’re not updating our own knowledge and skill?
Over the past decade millennials have increasingly moved into L&D leadership roles. As the generation that’s never not been in lock-step with technology, millennials have exciting perspectives on where L&D is going, how companies should adapt to the future, and how elearning fits in with instructor-led training.
For the time-strapped multi-tasker trying to shoehorn learning into a workday without sacrificing productivity, podcasts are a logical fit. Why? Because frequently learners find themselves with time that isn’t as productive as it could be. For many of us, these patches of time are frustrating. We should be able to leverage them, and we can—by using our ears while we do other chores.
If there’s anything our posts about microlearning and app-based learning demonstrate, it’s that people are increasingly strapped for time. Learning needs to be delivered in small bites, when and where people need it, in the most digestible way.
Microlearning has increasingly become the buzzword on the lips of instructional designers and elearning specialists everywhere. What experts agree on is that you don’t just chop up a 60-minute elearning module or video into smaller five- or 10-minute pieces and call it microlearning.
From the moment you wake up, you’re in a world of apps. Mobile apps are so abundant that it’s only natural for learners to gravitate to them for training. This delivery method provides the flexibility to learn anyplace, anytime, in short bursts or longer intervals, online or offline.
Artificial intelligence isn’t one particular thing—it’s a category of technologies designed to perform tasks by simulating human intelligence. You’re probably using many such tools already—speech recognition apps such as Siri, call-centre chatbots and translators such as Google Translate all have AI as their backbone.
What do you think of when you hear the words “augmented reality”? What about “virtual reality”? In a nutshell, with AR the learner is in a real environment with artificial enhancements (“adding to the real world”) while in VR, the learner is in a completely artificial environment.
Like all good L&D professionals we’ve been keeping an eye on the trends to watch this year. For some practitioners they’re on the horizon. For others, these tools are indispensable right now. And as new resources come to the fore in L&D, others go into the sunset.
Plenty of elearning approaches are touted as “the next best thing,” the solution for everyone’s training woes, or that one ingredient that’s somehow missing. The fact is, we all use a combination of strategies in instructional design—there’s no one magic formula.
The way we learn is changing at an ever more rapid pace, and with it, our theories of learning. There’s a lot of chat these days about how learners absorb information and how we as instructional designers and trainers can utilize new knowledge about cognition to improve learning outcomes.
If you’ve been in the instructional design field for a long time, it’s a safe bet that your process has evolved. And not just how you approach a given learning scenario—you’ve probably thought and rethought about learning itself—how it happens, what goes on in the learner’s mind, how the pace of learning has changed, and how to stay on your toes.
A lot of factors go into deciding on an authoring tool. How easy is it for your team to use? What themes or designs are available, and how easily can they be tailored to your clients? Can you incorporate specific functionalities? And how affordable is it?
In our March 2017 blog post we shared some information about one of the hottest new trends in learning and development—micro-learning. So what does great micro-learning look like? Check out some examples to find out.
When was the last time you went a whole day without hearing the term AI? And for those of us in L&D, it’s knocking on our LMS-shaped doors.