Learning & Teaching Development

Learning Design support to get you more productive, with more engaging and impactful learning.

We are a small and personable consultancy who support you in learning design, course design, and the operationalisation of these.

We make learning design and operations more relevant, engaging, compliant, and efficient, starting with understanding you and your learner needs.

Outside eyes bring a fresh perspective to your subject-specific knowledge. We can help you step back from ‘detail blindness’ and the paradox of choice to quickly and efficiently create engaging, accessible and dynamic courses for high-impact learning.

We will walk you through the steps of your learning design journey, finding the narrative that will tell the right story for your course, with the right characters, structures, and chapters. From course conception through development and validation to deployment.

What we do

As experienced educators in Higher Education, Further Education, and in staff CPD, we use our expertise in facilitation and coaching to help you and your teams bring your course design to life for the best possible learner outcomes. We can support you in the whole life-cycle from course conception through development and validation to deployment, or any individual stage along the way.

From Degrees & Diplomas to staff CPD courses, setting-up partnerships, and governance structures, or re-imagining your learning design and portfolio to keep ahead of the game and be dynamically ready for the next 5 years. We’ve got the experience and network to help.

  • A ‘Head of Learning & Teaching for Hire’ service, helping you ensure strong student engagement and achievement by having positively engaged teaching staff who are confident inclusive, differentiated acive learning.

    We provide targeted staff development activities for your teachers/lecturers in an range of topics that are crucial for strong performance data NSS results.

  • Expert support in validation processes, partnerships, new college set-up and operational structures.

    We can help with robust programme design and authoring to ensure swift and successful validation and compliance with UK FHEQ.

    We have years of experience in establishing and managing validated partnerships within the UK and between UK and international partners, including franchised/licensed provision.

  • Do you want to improve the impact of learning with your students and staff? Whether it’s a degree or CPD and training, we can help you explore efficient ways of making your learning design more engaging, accessible, and dynamic, for better and lasting impact.

    We are passionate about learner-led active learning, and finding ways of making learning design as accessible, engaging, and relevant as possible. Using blended and distance learning we find the best tools and platforms to support differentiated and flexible learning, that is relevant for each cohort of learners.

    Interested in making assessment more authentic and relevant? We can help you find ways of introducing Project-based learning and synoptic assessment to increase learner engagement and achievement in assessment.

  • Are you or your team stuck with something? Maybe you’re noticing stagnation in creativity and productivity.

    Our 1-2-1 and team coaching and facilitation will help you and your teams find the right keys and tools to unlock the doors to the next level, excite your creativity and tap into your full potential.

    We’re particularly interested in using coaching methodologies in formal education settings, for staff development and to use in teaching.

    Empower your staff and students and make your life easier by helping them to identify their challenges and craft the relevant answers and solutions, to make their change more meaningful and impactful.

  • Are your teams tired of hearing your ideas? Are you tired of trawling your teams through CPD and development activities?

    We can help refresh your teams’ engagement, productivity collaborative creativity with bespoke training and workshops.

    We can facilitate these and/or help you design suitable programmes and content for your to facilitate yourself and via a Virtual Learning Environment.

    Often using concepts of storytelling and narrative structure, we help teams to tell their own stories, and from there to write their own next chapters, where they are the main characters.

    Why? Because “It can inspire, enliven and create instant rapport. It can move an audience to take action and it can change lives.“

    (Tony Robbins)

More about StoryWare

With 15 years of experience in Further and Higher Education from the UK, EU Americas, and Asia, we’ve worked out what makes learning impactful. The key to student engagement and success is broadly the same as it is for staff development and CPD.

Using the nuggets of experience and knowledge and stories that we’ve picked up along our pathways around the world, we engage our learners and clients with stories, finding meaning in the narratives that explain who we are and why we’re doing the things we love. Finding the narratives that bring all of our important artifacts together in a meaningful way, everything we do works together t become greater than the sum of their parts.

What’s your story? The answer will help you unlock doors and build a stronger, happier, more creative and impactful learning environment.