About Us
Sprout Labs creates innovative, engaging, and creative e-learning solutions. To meet the complex challenges of this century, we need everyone to be able to learn effectively throughout their lives. For us, this means one thing: Learning needs to be more experience-based.
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Engaging Learning Design
We apply the best practices in learning, design, and research from brain based learning to build learning experiences that are engaging, effective, and relevant to learners’ real world experience.
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Games and Simulations for Learning
At Sprout Labs we are busy making game-based learning and simulations a reality. We are doing this by developing free, open-source tools and frameworks that make developing complex interactions easy.
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Visual Learning and Visual Design
So many learning experiences seem to be made by people who love to read and write. At Sprout Labs, we love making media-rich visual learning experiences, which means things like videos, visualisations, diagrams, infographics, and presentations.
Some of things we have helped clients do:
- A client saved $120,000 in annual licensing fees by doing running their own contract induction. We helped them realize that there were more effective and lower-cost ways to achieve their outcomes. We built a learning resource to help them achieve the new program. This was a one-time cost without licensing fees or ongoing costs.
- Allow learners to learn skills rapidly and safely for a high-risk activity that is hard to practice at a training facility by building simulations.
- Increased safety and quality of work by developing a simple touch screen performance support system that allows easy access to electronic processes and procedures.
- Helped clients build more effective and engaging induction programs.
- A not-for-profit organisation now saves $5,500 a year in licensing fees after we helped them move from a commerical learning management system to Moodle.
- A registered training organisation now earns $50,000 annually in extra income from an online course we built for them in a niche market.
Where
We are based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. You will often find Robin in Melbourne and Sydney at events or working with clients. With technologies like online project management software and Skype, remote work is easy.
Background
Sprout Labs is a mixture of creative, technical, and learning knowledge. The founder of Sprout Labs, Dr Robin Petterd, has a background in innovative, creative digital media design and teaching. Sprout Labs has grown out of Robin's interest in improving learning experiences, which means learning is not just a "market"; it's our passion.
