Learning with Belvista Studios

If you like this podcast, you will like our CREATOR HUB. It offers a range of services that aim to support you in developing, improving and growing to meet your future needs in the instructional design and eLearning industry.    Visit it here: https://creatorhub.belvistastudios.com/  In this episode Kim and Hannah speak about their initial insights into design anthropology. They cha...

If you like this podcast, you will like our CREATOR HUB. It offers a range of services that aim to support you in developing, improving and growing to meet your future needs in the instructional design and eLearning industry.    Visit it here: https://creatorhub.belvistastudios.com/   In this episode Kim and Hannah speak with Egle Vinauskaite. Egle is a learning consultant who speci...

If you like this podcast, you will like our CREATOR HUB. It offers a range of services that aim to support you in developing, improving and growing to meet your future needs in the instructional design and eLearning industry.   Visit it here: https://creatorhub.belvistastudios.com/   In this episode, Kim and Hannah discuss learning from mistakes and how this has led us to improve how we...

In this episode we speak to Ian Plowman, a passionate communication extraordinaire with a background in organisational psychology. We gained valuable insights from Ian on: 1. Introverts and extroverts in the classroom setting 2. Unconscious bias in communication 3. Setting social contracts and communication boundaries 4. Why curiosity is your secret weapon 5. The difference between fluid and cryst...

What is it about the Superbowl that draws attention from millions of people and more specifically, why do people want to watch the ads? Usually, we pick up our phones and scroll, spending our time in a better way until our show comes back on. This is what we asked ourselves and decided it would be a good blog topic.  Hot off the press, Kim and Hannah recorded a chat about the research and how...

Join us on our most recent Learning with Belvista Studios curiosity journey where we chatted to an enthusiastic learning and development practitioner, Divya Dhir, who spoke to us about: 1. How to implement and create buy-in for a community of practice 2. How to build on your instructional design skills and incorporate accelerated learning into your learning solutions 3. How to use theatre pedagogy...

The robots are coming... Well not quite but an intelligence is improving, which has the power to make our lives easier. In this podcast we chat about the friend and perceived foe that is artificial intelligence (AI), discussing (as per questions asked by our awesome community): 1. When designing AI, what strategies need to be implemented to ensure that machine learning learns the best, not the wor...

Inspiration is all around us and at a recent user experience (UX) meetup we learnt how web designers, online shopping websites and other industries apply UX to their solutions. A lot relates to our world of instructional design and eLearning. In this podcast we chat about this relationship, discussing: 1. What it's all about 2. How to avoid assumptions about your end user 3. The importance of cons...

In this episode, Kim and our awesome special guests Matt Mason and Kathrine Lloyd of Superb Learning, talk about gamification and what elements of games can be used in learning to motivate people to engage in the experience. We also talk about storytelling and how this can help immerse learners in a similar way. Welcome to our new series, "The Deep Dive". In it, we go deeper into the topics we've...

Welcome to our new series, "The Deep Dive". In it, we go deeper into the topics we've been blogging about, learning or practising. It's all relevant to the learning and development world and will definitely have eLearning and instructional design themes trickled throughout.  In our third episode, Kim, Hannah and our awesome special guest Kirsty Lewis from School of Facilitation talk about how...

Welcome to our new series, "The Deep Dive". In it, we go deeper into the topics we've been blogging about, learning or practising. It's all relevant to the learning and development world and will definitely have eLearning and instructional design themes trickled throughout.  In our second episode, Kim and Hannah talk about keeping current, challenging ourselves and prioritising personal devel...

Welcome to our new series, "The Deep Dive". In it, we go deeper into the topics we've been blogging about, learning or practising. It's all relevant to the learning and development world and will definitely have eLearning and instructional design themes trickled throughout.  In our first episode, Kim and Hannah talk about human centred design. Hannah recently did the IDEO course and wrote a b...