About Us

Sprout Labs helps next-generation e-learning happen today.

To meet the complex challenges of this century, we need everyone to be able to learn effectively throughout their whole lives. For us, this means one main thing:

Learning needs to be more experience-based.

Sprout Labs is working in the following areas to make this happen:

  • Learning Design - We apply best-practices in learning and experience design to help learners have a great learning experience.
  • Games and Simulations for Learning - At Sprout Labs we are busy making game-based learning and simulations a reality for educators. We are doing this by developing free and open-source tools and frameworks that make developing complex interactions easy.
  • 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, visualizations, infographics and amazing presentations.   

Open Source

A large part of our focus is on the development and use of open-source games engines. At the moment, most of our fees from service-based work go back into open-source projects. Think of working with us as sponsoring and supporting these open-source learning projects.

Where

We are based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. You will often find Robin in Melbourne and Sydney, at events and working with clients. With technologies like online project management software and virtual meeting rooms, remote work is easy.

Background

Sprout Labs is a renaissance business offering a true mixture of creative, technical and learning expertise. The founder of Sprout Labs, Robin Petterd, has a background in creative digital media design. Sprout Labs has grown out of Robin's love of learning, which means learning is not just a "market"; it's our passion. For more information about our professional experience, check out the team area of the site.