HIVE NurseLearning Design
Instructional design

We design the learning, not just the slides.

Whole programmes, single courses, and everything in between — for complex, regulated, high-consequence work, the kind where people have to be able to do something differently afterwards and somebody has to be able to prove they can. Programme architecture, curriculum mapping, course build, media production and LMS delivery, from one team. Everything below is a working sample. Click any of it.

Programme
scale
From a 6-minute unit to a multi-course programme and its materials
7Formats built and shipped, all of them sampled below
4 waysTo deliver: SCORM, Common Cartridge, direct Canvas, or hosted
End to endArchitecture, writing, media, assessment and packaging in one team

The work

Not screenshots — the actual packages, running. Each one opens here on the page.

On the subject matter. These samples are healthcare, because that is where this practice has built most of its library. The architecture, the assessment design and the production pipeline are subject-agnostic — the same shells have been built against professional standards, certification blueprints and internal role frameworks. If your content is not clinical, none of the below changes.


Every lesson maps to a competency

Not the course — the lesson. Tagging at that grain is the difference between a library you can report on and a pile of content you hope is covering the right things.

Most content libraries are tagged by topic, which tells you what a thing is about. We tag by competency, at the sub-competency level, which tells you what someone can do after it. That one change is what makes three questions answerable:

  • Which capabilities is this programme actually covering?
  • Which ones has nobody touched all year?
  • Where should the next build go — and what can we retire?

The framework is yours, not ours. A national academic set, a certification blueprint, a regulator's requirements, or your own role and capability model — the tagging layer takes any of them, and a piece of content can carry more than one at a time.

A 17-minute conversation, chapter by chapter
0:19 One level deeper than burnout 10.1b Manage conflict between personal and professional responsibilities
1:54 Not PTSD, and not a bad day 10.2a Engage in guided and spontaneous reflection of one's practice
2:43 What it actually feels like 10.1c Contribute to an environment that promotes self-care, personal health and well-being
4:24 Where it comes from: whose priorities win 7.1a Describe organizational structure, mission, vision, philosophy and values
5:15 Calling the ethics team 6.4a Demonstrate an awareness of one's biases and how they may affect mutual respect and communication with team members
All fifteen chapters are tagged this way — and it is one conversation, not a purpose-built course. Five minutes of it covers three domains. Open the interview module above to see it running.

What we build

The format follows the learning. Most engagements mix two or three of these.

Whole programmes

Multi-course curricula designed as one system: what each course is for, what it is allowed to assume, where competencies are introduced, reinforced and assessed, and how a learner actually gets from admission to the other end.

Curriculum mapping · sequencing · governance

Courses

From a one-hour module to a sixteen-week course with its own textbook. Lessons, video, assessment, interactive widgets, downloadable tools — and the architecture underneath that decides what belongs where.

1 hour → 16 weeks

Microlearning

Short, single-idea units designed for the time people actually have — minutes, on a phone, between other things. Stacked into a tracked, credit-bearing sequence when it needs to be.

~6 minutes each

Film and documentary

Shot with real practitioners, cut into an episode, then built into a module with objectives, a chapter spine and evidence at each turn. People remember a person; the citations make it defensible.

Filmed, edited, assessed

Archive conversion

You already own recordings — webinars, interviews, conference sessions, a podcast back catalogue. We wrap them into tracked modules instead of letting them sit as a media library nobody is accountable for.

Fastest route from archive to curriculum

Synthetic video

Scripted, generated and versioned presenter video. When the standard changes you re-render the affected lesson instead of re-booking a studio — which is the only way a large library stays current.

Per-lesson, re-renderable

Guides, workbooks and tools

The scaffolding that sits beside the course: templates, worked examples, checklists, sentence banks, worksheets. Usually the part learners actually keep open — and the part most course builds leave out.

Print, PDF and in-platform

How we design it

The same five moves whether it is one card or a whole programme. The subject changes and the framework changes; the discipline does not.

1

Start from the performance gap

Not "what should we cover" but "what can people not do yet, and how do we know". The gap is evidenced — from your incident data, audit findings, survey results, support tickets, whatever you already have — before a single objective gets written. Sometimes this step ends with us telling you the problem is not a training problem.

2

Write one outcome, in terms of changed behaviour

One measurable statement of what someone will do differently. Everything downstream — the lessons, the assessment, the evaluation — is built to serve that statement, and anything that does not serve it gets cut, however interesting it is.

3

Map it to the framework that governs the work

Every objective is tagged to a competency, at the sub-competency level, in whatever framework your work is accountable to — a professional standard, a certification blueprint, a regulatory requirement, an internal role or capability model. Tagging at that grain is what makes coverage reportable: which capabilities your people are strong in, which ones nobody has touched all year, and where the next build should go.

4

Anchor every claim to a source

Content is verified against primary sources, not against a summary of one. References sit in the build file, dated and reviewable, so material has a defensible shelf life and a scheduled review rather than an indefinite one.

5

Evaluate for outcome, not satisfaction

The instrument asks whether the outcome was met, what the learner will change, and what will get in the way. Those answers are structured data — so evaluation feeds your next needs assessment instead of producing a star rating nobody acts on.

Worked example. Our own library is tagged to a ten-domain national competency framework, down to the sub-competency, which is what lets an individual see their own coverage and a programme lead see where the holes are. The same architecture takes a different spine — a certification blueprint, an interprofessional set, or a client's own capability model — without redesigning the content underneath.
National competency frameworks Certification blueprints Regulatory requirements Internal role & capability models Quality & improvement reporting standards

Delivery

Built to land in the system you already run, not to sell you a new one.

Packaging

SCORM 1.2
The universal option. Runs in anything, tracks completion and score back to the LMS.
Common Cartridge
Full course structure — modules, pages, assignments, quizzes and rubrics — imported as real LMS objects rather than one opaque package.
Direct to Canvas
Course content authored for direct upload, so pages and assignments arrive editable by your own faculty or training team.
Hosted
We run it, you send people a link. Useful when the audience sits outside your LMS — contractors, partners, the public.

Systems we build into

We have shipped course builds into Canvas, Blackboard and commercial LMS platforms, and authored to the open standards the rest accept. We work to your naming conventions, your module structure and your accessibility requirements rather than imposing ours.

CanvasBlackboard MoodleD2L Brightspace Commercial LMS platformsHosted

Where a build has to carry continuing-education credit, we produce the documentation the accrediting body asks for as part of the build rather than reconstructing it afterwards.


How we work together

Take the whole thing, or come in at the stage where you are stuck.

Programme & curriculum architecture

Before anything gets built: the gap analysis, the outcome set, the competency map, the sequence — across a single course or an entire programme.

  • Needs assessment and gap evidence
  • Programme outcomes and course-level objectives
  • Curriculum mapping — introduced, reinforced, assessed
  • Course sequencing, prerequisites and pathways
  • Accreditation and self-study documentation

Build

Full production from outline to packaged course, media included.

  • Scripting, lessons and assessment
  • Film, synthetic video and course art
  • Workbooks, tools and worked examples
  • Packaging and LMS handoff

Rescue and rebuild

An existing course that is not landing, or a library that has gone stale.

  • Teardown against the stated outcome
  • Assessment and evaluation redesign
  • Re-cut of existing media
  • Review cycle and shelf-life plan

Delivery and measurement

Getting it in front of people, and knowing whether it worked.

  • Packaging for your LMS, or hosted by us
  • Completion and coverage reporting
  • Outcome-based evaluation instruments
  • Documentation for credit-bearing activity
Let's talk

Tell us what your people can't do yet.

That is the whole first conversation. Bring the gap — an audit finding, an incident trend, a survey result, a course that is not landing — and we will tell you honestly whether learning is the right instrument and what it would take to build it.

or write to elizabeth@hivenurse.com and ashley@hivenurse.com