By David Casey | On Friday, March 13th, all of our teams at Construct were physically working at offices across multiple global geographies.  The following Tuesday a remote working business continuity plan kicked in company- wide in response to COVID-19. Sustaining operations, continuing to be productive, and delivering on milestones, all…

By Jessy Polzer | My mom messaged me yesterday. I hear a lot more from her these days. A local plastics manufacturing company near my hometown jumped right into the fray, prototyping and producing critical ,,PPE (because I know that acronym now) for our local hospital in under 48 hours. They’ve…

By Sarah Polhill & Victoria Hekking | At Construct, we integrate a variety of resources into the courses that we create in order to facilitate better collaboration and interaction between educators and learners. We worked with our team of learning experts to make a list of some of our favorite learning…

By Robin Van Dusen | What is it about teaching that is so hard? For years I couldn’t put my finger on it, and even now the simple answer is that it’s everything. This school year I finally left my teaching job. Like other teachers, I would entertain the idea of leaving…

By Carl Dawson | "It goes without saying that last week was challenging. Repatriating staff across the USA and the Middle East from universities that implemented social distancing was the main priority as our business continuity plan kicked in. The next challenge was how to best focus our hundred plus staff around the…

By Meg Knight | By having moved to an agile delivery methodology, with a globally dispersed workforce and clients, Construct is able to continue with our world-class online learning delivery, with external factors beyond our control having minimal impact on us. We make full use of tools which enable us to collaborate…

By Michael Atkinson and Sarah Polhill | Now is the time for educators to have a concrete “to do” list for moving their courses online. We wanted to take this opportunity to provide educators with a list of the basic components of an online course and helpful resources to speed up…

By Jessy Polzer, Michael Atkinson, Sarah Polhill, and Richard Mee | With the worldwide outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19), life is asking a lot of almost everyone right now. Even more than usual. As we speak, teachers across the world are scrambling to move their instruction online. Students are concerned about meeting educational…

By Haanim Galvaan | My high school biology teacher was very serious. She wasn’t quick to smile, she was stern and almost never laughed. That is why on the day she made a joke about sphincters, I laughed. I laughed way more than I should have. The lesson was about the difference…

I have a feeling that most employees of Construct get asked the same question I do all the time: “So, what is instructional design?” At some point, most of us probably had the same question. The answer to this question first came to me in the book Design for How People…

“As a disruptive innovation—an innovation that transforms a sector from one that was previously complicated and expensive into one that is far simpler and more affordable—the rise of online learning carries with it an unprecedented opportunity to transform the schooling system into a student-centric one that can affordably customize for…

Just as a meal can come out differently depending on the chef, even if they follow the same recipe, the expression of agile delivery sees a multitude of different iterations depending on the company. At Construct Education, our Agile Recipe is based on our global workforce needing to manage multiple time…

Over the last few years - and especially over the last six months - we’ve been partnering with an increasing number of universities across the world, supporting them to plan and deliver digital learning strategies. Perhaps the most exciting and interesting part of the collaborative process happens during the Discovery Phase…

There is a problem with the way we enter the world of work. Students are paying large amounts of money for education only to find upon graduating that their degrees aren't valued. That it's not only a university education they need, it's also experience they need. Opportunity isn't distributed evenly.…

“Please buy one from me. I don’t have enough money to go to school.” Those are the first sentences a young boy utters in a clip that went viral last year. The boy looks no older than ten in the video. He’s poor, selling trinkets on the streets of Cambodia in…

Data-Driven Strategy Our technology allows us to provide real value from the data behind learning- we can do this by evaluating the data we collect to develop a greater knowledge about learners through looking at their choices, actions, and results while using an online learning system. Using this strategy has allowed…

Universities are getting digital and moving their learning and classrooms online. It's no surprise why: they can engage a larger number of learners, create a more relaxed and flexible learning environment, and allow students to learn more in their own time. So why should you take an online course? More skills in…

Roi Shillo, Chief Technology Officer at Construct, recently had the opportunity to give a presentation on using mobile approaches with learning. The workshop was presented to the CampusIL, a government program that offers free courses from top universities to all the citizens in Israel. Forty to fifty people from all the…

The holidays are over and it’s time to begin planning for the new year. This is an exciting chance to start looking forward to all the new trends, technology, and opportunities that will be introduced within the next 12 months. It seems that newer generations such as Millennials have it all,…

We’ve all been there - the typical learning experience. We sit in a room and we’re inundated with visual and audio information from the ’sage on-stage’ and his or her slides and documents. If we’re lucky enough to be part of an “innovative” approach, we might be inundated virtually instead-…