Learning Design
We believe in the power of learning to change lives. When it’s supportive, active, inclusive, and grounded in evidence, it can unlock potential and create lasting impact – for every learner, everywhere.
Smart, supportive learning
Our mission is to refine the ideal online learning experience for universities. We combine evidence-based learning design – grounded in cognitive science – with the supportive power of AI to guide and empower learners throughout their journey. By making learning more interactive, personalised, and responsive, our model helps ensure that university study is both accessible and affordable for a broader range of students.
Regular feedback
Timely feedback is essential for student confidence and progress. Our learning model addresses this by integrating AI tools that provide real-time feedback on low-stakes written work – guiding, correcting and encouraging learners. This keeps students engaged, helps them build essential skills and ensures they’re better prepared for formal assessments.
Accessibility
We aim to design inclusive learning experiences that remove barriers to participation. Our programmes are developed with accessibility in mind through content presentation and user experience. To ensure a consistent technology baseline for all, we also provide Chromebooks to students, helping to close the digital divide.
Evidence-based principles
Our principles underpin every learning design project we undertake, ensuring consistency, quality and impact. They guide us in creating highly effective programmes that meet the needs of our partners and deliver meaningful results for learners.
Understanding the learner involves identifying the background, needs, motivations, and challenges of the target audience. This includes knowing their prior knowledge, learning preferences and the barriers they face.
Designing with the end in mind ensures that every aspect of the course aligns with clear, measurable learning outcomes. This principle focuses on backward design, where the learning objectives drive content, assessments, and activities.
The learning process is generative and involves engaging students in the learning process through recall, summarising material, elaboration, discussion and reflection. It requires the learner to exert effort to make sense of and organise material to help them internalise information more effectively.
Understanding the learner involves identifying the background, needs, motivations, and challenges of the target audience. This includes knowing their prior knowledge, learning preferences and the barriers they face.
Presenting information in a way that reduces the mental effort required to understand new concepts, ensuring that learners can focus on understanding rather than feeling overwhelmed.
Motivating and engaging learners involves creating content that captures attention, fosters curiosity, and builds a connection between the learner and the material. This is crucial for keeping learners invested in their learning.
Feedback helps students check their level of understanding and areas for improvement, making learning more effective by guiding them to the correct understanding and building their confidence.
Distributing recall and reviews over time. This enhances long-term retention by allowing the brain to process and reinforce information gradually.
Enduring partnerships
At Anspear, we’re committed to delivering outstanding online learning experiences for universities and their students. From early-stage planning and strategy to content creation, delivery and evaluation, we partner with you to build programmes that are effective, accessible and built to last.
Content Development
Instructional Design
Technology and Delivery
Ongoing Support
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