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Learning experience design
Turn lessons, presentations, courses, handouts, and training materials into experiences people can explore, practice, and use.
Turn passive into participatory
Make learning something people do.
Next Level Learning Design helps educators and organizations turn traditional content into engaging experiences that get people thinking, exploring, practicing, and applying.
Built for schools, universities, learning teams, education organizations, and event organizers who want learning to work better.
PassiveParticipatory
What I do
Better learning starts with a better thing to do.
The format may change. The goal stays the same: give people a meaningful reason to think, participate, and use what they learn.
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Professional learning
Interactive workshops and webinars built around practical moves people can try right away.
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Speaking
Conference sessions, keynotes, panels, and workshops with useful ideas at the center.
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Interactive content and experience design
Branching scenarios, interactive presentations, simulations, games, and digital experiences with a reason to be interactive.
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Learning design consulting
Clear thinking for teams improving content strategy, educational resources, professional learning programs, or learner engagement.
The design test
The best learning design doesn’t feel like a course.
It feels like a worthwhile problem, a smart conversation, a decision that matters, or a chance to try something before it counts.
The point is not more content.
It is a better experience with the content that matters.
EXPERIENCE
About 20 years in K–12
M.S.
Instructional Design
Educational Technology
B.A.
Broadcast
Journalism
About James
I’ve spent my career trying to make learning better.
I’m James Flaskamp, an educator and learning designer with a background that crosses classrooms, instructional coaching, educational technology, storytelling, video production, and presentation design.
That mix matters. Good learning needs sound instructional thinking, but it also needs clear communication and an experience people are willing to enter.
Work / Ideas
The work should show its thinking.
Projects
Case studies will unpack the starting point, the problem, the design decision, and why the result works.
Coming soon
Videos + sessions
A home for practical talks, demonstrations, conference resources, and interactive examples.
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Ideas + resources
Useful thinking about participation, interactivity, technology, storytelling, and learning design.
Coming soon
Practical by design. If nobody has time to build it, use it, or maintain it, it is not a great solution.