Our Services
- Learning experience design and Consultancy
- Content writing
- Editorial services
- Digital asset production and management
- Course build
Delivering and evaluating
- Trainer inductions and development
- Training and course delivery
- Learning community management
- Programme management
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Report writing and presentation of results to stakeholders.
Learning experience design and consultancy
ThornLearning specialises in shaping innovative and engaging learning experiences.
Whether starting with a completely blank canvas, or updating and refreshing existing learning content, our team of experienced instructional designers and learning experts work closely with clients to create customised learning solutions. Using up-to-date pedagogy and subject matter, everything is tailored to learners’ unique needs and goals.
Our services include:
- Collaborating with clients to define their target audience of learners, including market research where appropriate
- Writing customised learning outcomes
- Developing course plans
- Designing effective learning activities to support and challenge learners, ensuring they receive appropriate feedback throughout their learning journey
- Advising on, designing and producing a range of accessible multimedia learning assets with learners and system compatibility in mind
- Creating an appropriate assessment strategy and design assessments, which are constructively aligned to learning outcomes and activities
Learning content writing
Our learning content development services empower educators and institutions with high-quality materials that inspire learners and support educators’ professional development. From textbooks and e-learning modules to webinars and teacher resources, our team of expert writers tailor materials to meet the specific needs of end users. Partner with us to deliver impactful resources that foster successful professional development and learning experiences.
Our services include:
- Writing for different proficiency levels, age groups, and cultural backgrounds, creating materials that engage and resonate with diverse learners
- Developing content aligned with curriculum objectives
- Ensuring accuracy and relevance of content by conducting thorough research, bringing in further specialists as required
- Creating activities, exercises, and models that capture learners’ interest and motivate them to actively participate in the learning process
- Understanding and addressing the challenges and individual needs of learners
Editorial Services
ThornLearning offers editorial services to enhance all print and digital content. Our team of publishing experts have a strong background in ELT and education, and can assist with a range of editorial tasks to ensure high-quality, polished content which captures the unique needs of clients and their learners.
- Development editing
- Content editing
- Copyediting
- Proof-editing
- Localisation
- Proofreading
Digital asset production and management
At ThornLearning, we offer top-quality digital asset production and design services. Our team of experts can help plan and create engaging audio, and impactful and accessible animations, videos, and other multimedia assets that can be incorporated into your online courses or provided separately as standalone products.
Whether you need support developing new assets, refreshing existing content to meet accessibility and brand standards, or managing content administration, we have the expertise to help you connect with your audience and achieve your goals.
Our services include:
- Creating beautiful, engaging assets for your courses (videos, animations, audio content, images, infographics)
- Advising on multimedia learning theory to ensure your assets are pedagogically sound
- Providing closed captions and transcripts for audio content
- Ensuring all assets meet accessibility standards
Course build
At Thornlearning, we offer comprehensive online course building services that are tailored to meet the unique needs of each of our clients. Our team of experts is highly skilled in using a range of authoring tools to create engaging and effective online courses that deliver results.
Whether you are looking to refresh an existing course or build a brand new course from scratch, we have the expertise to get the job done. We work closely with our clients to understand their goals and target audience, ensuring that every course we build is customised to meet their specific needs.
Our services include:
- Building courses using a range of authoring tools; recent projects have featured Articulate Rise 360, Articulate Storyline, eXact and H5P
- Editing existing courses
- Moving existing courses between platforms
- Creating the learning journey on your learning management system
- Testing content on your learning management system to ensure useability and quality
Training
At ThornLearning, we offer a range of training services designed to meet the diverse needs of our clients. We have extensive experience in delivering face-to-face, blended, and online courses across a range of fields, including language, vocational skills, and teacher education.
Whether supporting individual learners, small, closed groups, or 80,000+ participants on open global online courses, we can support learning through:
- Delivering different modules of interactive training: webinars, talks, workshops and training events
- Establishing a positive and supportive learning environment for all learners
- Creating a sense of progress through regular, personalised feedback
- Providing opportunities to apply and embed learning within participants’ own contexts
- Training and supporting your in-house trainers
- Creating bespoke training materials
- Sourcing and managing trainers
Quality assurance
ThornLearning provides comprehensive quality assurance services for online and print learning materials. Our experienced team will work with you to ensure that your courses meet high standards for content, pedagogy, and user experience.
Our services include:
- Course review and evaluation
- User testing
- Developing bespoke quality assurance processes to be embedded within your project, and supporting you in their implementation
Platform management
At ThornLearning, we offer comprehensive learning management system (LMS) administration services to help you manage your digital learning programmes more efficiently and effectively. Our team of experienced LMS administrators can handle all aspects of your learning management system.
Our services include:
- Providing technical support and troubleshooting assistance to learners, instructors, and other stakeholders
- Managing user accounts, including creating, editing, and deleting accounts as needed and ensuring that user data is accurate and up to date
- Monitoring learner progress and performance, tracking completion rates and engagement metrics to identify areas for improvement and optimisation
- Developing, documenting and implementing procedures for LMS use
- Collaborating with instructors and other relevant stakeholders to ensure content is properly integrated into the LMS and meets technical specifications and standards
- Providing training and support on LMS use, functionality, and best practices
Learning community management
ThornLearning offers expert community management services for online learning communities. Our experienced team of community managers are dedicated to creating a supportive and engaging learning environment for your online community. From facilitating discussions and answering questions, to moderating content and fostering a sense of community, our team is here to help you build a thriving online learning community. Let us help you create an inclusive and dynamic learning space that fosters growth and collaboration.
Our services include:
- Researching your audience and advising on an appropriate community platform
- Developing and implementing a community management strategy which incorporates best practices and is tailored to the target audience and platform
- Building a thriving online community that is engaging, supportive, and aligned with your goals and values
- Monitoring and reporting community activity and engagement, identifying and addressing issues and opportunities
Assessment and examination services
ThornLearning’s assessment and examination services support the comprehensive evaluation of learner proficiency and measurement of educational outcomes. We work with clients to understand your assessment needs and develop assessment solutions that provide the highest standards of validity and reliability.
- Designing assessment frameworks
- Advising on and providing item writing services
- Analysing assessment data
- Managing assessor training and standardisation
- Sourcing and training assessors/examiners
Programme management
ThornLearning has a track record of designing and delivering effective online and blended teacher development courses, projects and programmes. Since 2013 our team has supported and led programmes of varying sizes, modes of delivery and duration.
Our services include:
- Engaging partner organisations and securing funding
- Programme design
- Proposal development and costing
- Recruitment
- Project planning and management
- Monitoring and evaluation
