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The Death of the CD- What Education Can Learn From the Music Industry

Why are you much more likely to find a concert ticket than a CD in your Christmas stocking and what does this tell us about the future of learning design? Last year, we were at Aston University talking about the future of business education with a great crowd made up of…
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The Impacts of Collaborative Learning

Collaborative learning is a great way to learn and develop skills. When everyone comes together to focus on a challenge with colleagues of different levels of an organization, different inputs provide a sharing experience to solve problems faster and get better results and develop skills. Each person brings in new…
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Lifelong Learning. Experiencing WISE 2019.

From November 19-21, the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) brought more than 3500 delegates from over 150 countries to Doha, Qatar under the theme: “UnLearn, ReLearn: What it means to be Human.” This year was the 10th anniversary of WISE, an organization established under the leadership of Her Highness Sheikha…
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Construct Celebrates Six Years

Just over a week ago, November 15th, marked six years since we were born as Proversity in London, UK. To celebrate the occasion, we hosted a company-wide, global celebration to honor all the growth we have achieved since we started as a small team in a modest office in Trafalgar…
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Student Perceptions of Virtual Reality in Higher Education

Meet Tebogo. Tebogo joined the team at Construct this year as a Learning Technologist. In his recent studies at the University of Western Cape, Tebogo had the opportunity to conduct research on the student perceptions of virtual reality in higher education. He has earned a Bachelor's of Commerce Degree in Computer…
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Construct Goes for Gold at CanvasCon Europe 2019

This year we had the pleasure of participating as a Gold Level Sponsor, through our partnership with Instructure, at CanvasCon Europe in Barcelona, Spain. Why Barcelona? Barcelona, acknowledged as a major European smart city (1), has recently been climbing the ladder of European hubs well-suited for fostering growth in creativity and innovation.…
Personalized landing pages to get people to see courses

How a Personalized Course Landing Page Adds Value to Your Online Programs

Value Summary What do you get when we help you build a personalized course landing page? The learners that interact with your content receive personalized recommendations on courses and programs in your catalog based on their profiles, learning performance, and learning preferences - as a result, they can find courses…
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Using Interactive VR to Create Immersive Learning

Virtual reality (or VR) is certainly not a new concept, however the past year has seen some significant improvements in how everyday users can access these experiences. The last few years have seen many more consumer-level devices hit the market, and last year the overall number of virtual reality /augmented…

Learning to Power the Entire Employee Lifecycle

Serious investments within structured learning have been traditionally focused on onboarding and leadership development. At Construct, we believe learning should power the full employee journey. Our vision from day one was to link the power of online learning to every stage of your employee’s work-life – from candidacy to c-suite. We’ve…
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Digital Learning Strategies, Revamped

What makes some digital learning initiatives successful and others not? Digital learning works best when it does not have to replace the classroom, but should allow learners to combine digital learning with how their skills will be used in the real-world. Here's how you can strategize your learning courses: 1. Get…
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Diversity at the Core of Business

We all know diversity leads to better talent, innovation, and business performance. Research from McKinsey shows workplaces with more diverse workforces perform better financially. Gender-diverse organizations are 15% more likely to out-perform more homogenous organizations. For ethnically-diverse organizations, the out-performance percentage is even more significant: at 35%. For us, the heart…
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How Do We Survive in a Disruptive World?

Forget everything you know about the world around you. Technology and globalization are breaking down everything from employment, to markets, to corporate leadership. We're in a world where everything is being disrupted. Everything is constantly changing, so fast. How in the world do we survive? Fast Company introduced us to…
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Who is Construct?

Perhaps you’ve heard the news: after six years of business, we have recently rebranded our organization to Construct. Prior to the new brand launch, we were simultaneously running several lines of business with different names, some of which may be familiar to you: Construct, Proversity, and PearsonX. Although all of…
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Are We Judging Intelligence the ‘Right’ Way?

What is 'intelligence'? From a young age, we're taught to think that the better we do on tests, the smarter we are. We are conditioned to learn, rehearse, and retain information for when it's needed- or in other words, in order to pass exams. This is how intelligence and knowledge…
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We Have a New Name and Even Bigger Plans

As co-founders of the company, Krishan and Carl are proud to announce the next step in our evolution. This has been a huge year for us. Following a $US 3 million investment in 2019 we: - made a home at our new permanent US Headquarters in Salt Lake City, UT - doubled the size…
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Construct and Concentric Sky enable Open Badges for Open edX

Managing and issuing Open Badges within Open edX is now possible using the Badgr Xblock Cape Town, South Africa - June 25, 2018 - Construct has released the new Badgr Xblock for Open edX, making it possible for users to integrate Open Badges into any of hundreds of thousands of existing…