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Checking the structure is one of the most valuable checks to make early. What matters is choosing an approach that fits the content and being deliberate about it. Mapping the sequence out to test the flow before drafting in full. Read our full blog post at www.spokeseducation.com/post/ten-questions-to-ask-yourself-when-writing-for-non-experts-part-one

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Translation has been part of our digital learning work for many years. Across different projects, we’ve supported courses in Arabic, French, Spanish, Polish, Ukrainian, Welsh and Chinese-language versions, covering subjects such as child protection, safeguarding, health equity, vitamin A supplementation and gender-transformative education.

This past month, we’ve been translating a course into Burmese for the first time. It is always interesting to work with a new language, but the process itself is familiar: clear source files, consistent terminology, careful review, and a layout check once the translated content is back in place.

There is a lot more to it than replacing one set of words with another. Text can expand, layouts can shift, and subject-specific terms need to stay accurate and consistent. Thinking about these points early helps the translated version feel as considered as the original course.

Whether you already have a course you’re thinking about translating, or you’re starting a new project with future translations in mind, we can help you plan for digital learning that works across languages.

For World Environment Day, we’re looking back at Our Classroom Climate: one of our first projects designed specifically for children and schools.

The project began with an existing set of climate change resources for primary schools; our role was to refresh them into something more engaging, flexible and practical for classroom use, while keeping the content accurate and age-appropriate. This meant designing for teachers as well as children: the resources needed to work on an interactive whiteboard, support discussion and activity, and give teachers the confidence to shape the learning around their own class.

We developed a story-led approach with virtual facilitator characters, bite-sized activities, animations, quizzes and practical investigations. Alongside this, we created teacher guidance with suggested lesson sequences, key questions and extension activities.

Climate education can feel huge, especially for children. This project focused on making it clearer, more hopeful and more connected to the positive actions children can take in their own communities.

If you would like to check out a free demo of Our Classroom Climate, you can find it here: https://www.our-sustainability-academy.com/climate-netzero

You can also read more about this project, and others we’ve worked on, in our portfolio at: spokeseducation.com/occ-climate

Noticing assumptions about your learners at the start saves time later, because fewer clarifications and changes are needed once the content moves into review or build. Read the full blog post at
https://www.spokeseducation.com/post/ten-questions-to-ask-yourself-when-writing-for-non-experts-part-one

Learners need clarity about what matters most before complexity is layered in. You can read our full blog post at
www.spokeseducation.com/post/ten-questions-to-ask-yourself-when-writing-for-non-experts-part-one

Anyone who has delivered a course in person will recognise how much of the work happens in the moment. You explain something, see how it lands, and adjust accordingly. In digital learning, that support isn’t there. Learners move through the content on their own, without the opportunity to pause and ask for clarification or hear something explained differently.

This is something we see often when courses are being adapted from face-to-face delivery into a self-paced format. Activities, explanations, and examples that worked well in a room don’t always translate directly to screen.

That means the design has to do more of the work. It needs to anticipate where learners might hesitate, misread a step, or lose confidence, and provide enough support to help them keep going.

We’ve shared some of the approaches we use in our latest blog. You can read it here: www.spokeseducation.com/blog[

In an asynchronous course, clarity depends on deliberate focus. Learners cannot interrupt to ask for clarification or signal confusion in the moment, so the explanation must anticipate their questions, bridge gaps in their knowledge and guide them from unfamiliar territory to confident understanding.

Over the coming weeks we will go into detail around the questions that we follow which are designed to support that process. We use them as a starting point to focus your content and shape it with your learner in mind.

If you want to jump ahead you can read about them all on blog post over at
www.spokeseducation.com/post/ten-questions-to-ask-yourself-when-writing-for-non-experts-part-one

To find out all the questions we ask ourselves when writing for non-experts and why check out our blog post at www.spokeseducation.com/post/ten-questions-to-ask-yourself-when-writing-for-non-experts-part-one

Bees and other pollinators play a vital role in maintaining healthy ecosystems and supporting biodiversity. Their wellbeing is closely connected to the wider challenges of climate change, air quality and environmental sustainability.

At Spokes Education, we believe that education plays a vital role in helping current and future generations acknowledge and respond to these challenges.

Through our work with Our Sustainability Academy, we’ve helped develop interactive digital courses and workshops that bring climate science into the classroom and workplaces in engaging and practical ways.

Their programmes support primary school learners in exploring topics such as the carbon cycle, pollution, temperature and the wider environmental systems that influence our planet.

Today we’re reminded that protecting pollinators also means strengthening climate education and environmental awareness. Helping students understand the science behind climate and biodiversity, education can inspire the curiosity, responsibility and action needed to support a thriving natural world.

To read more about our work with Our Sustainability Academy and other projects check out our portfolio at: https://www.spokeseducation.com/portfolio/