Your Partner in Exceptional Online Learning.
We provide strategy, learning design, content production, and training to help institutions deliver world-class online learning.
We provide strategy, learning design, content production, and training to help institutions deliver world-class online learning.
Let’s Build Exceptional Online Learning Together.
Partner with us to design, develop, and optimise high-quality online courses and programmes—from strategy to delivery, we provide the expertise you need.
Explore how we help universities and professional bodies design, develop, and deliver exceptional online learning.
See how we’ve helped universities and professional bodies successfully design, develop, and implement online learning programmes.
Discover how Learning Design Solutions helps universities and professional bodies create exceptional online learning.
Why design (and who you aim at) matters more than the mode
Building trust and confidence in AI-assisted course design
How dialogue with AI sharpens design and strengthens outcomes
From Blank Canvas to Structured Journey
In traditional online course development, one of the most time-consuming and cognitively demanding phases is storyboarding — the process of drafting all the on-screen content that will appear in the virtual learning environment (VLE), from micro-lectures to interactive activities.
How SMEs, Learning Designers, and AI collaborate to build high-quality online learning
How generative tools are helping us build richer, more authentic learning experiences without burning out our team
Universities across the UK are under increasing pressure to grow digital provision—fast. But while the ambition is there, the implementation is often where things fall down. Questions crop up like:
Do we have the internal expertise to design and deliver high-quality online courses?
Can we scale recruitment and student support without an OPM’s infrastructure?
What’s the cost difference between doing it all ourselves vs. outsourcing some parts?
How do we avoid building an internal model that becomes unmanageable or underused?
This framework helps answer those questions by providing a structure to assess your institution’s readiness, capabilities, and priorities.
This post shares what we learned when we deliberately designed a demo course — Principles of Responsible Management — using a GPT-based AI assistant trained in our own pedagogical approach. Our aim was to test whether AI could support a structured, theoretically grounded design process suitable for UK higher education at postgraduate level. And what we found was that it didn’t just help us start — it helped us start well and keep going.