As a learning design consultant, I specialize in working with you to create
innovative learning solutions that result in real outcomes. Whether you are
developing engaging new content or impactful new products, developing or
revamping training or assessment plans, or want to establish a learning culture, I
can provide tailored strategies that deliver measurable results.
Whether you’re designing training for a global team, developing a new learning product, or looking to innovate your learning strategies, I offer a suite of services to meet your needs:
Let’s create learning experiences that engage, educate, and elevate.
Learning experiences are not one-
size-fits-all. Learning content must
serve the specific needs and
obstacles that learners face, and
be carefully designed to support
the learning outcomes desired.
Developing a successful EdTech
product goes beyond technical
development—it requires a deep
understanding of how and when
and why people learn as well as
the role technology can play in the
learners’ contexts.
Crafting valid and reliable
assessments requires articulating
clear, meaningful, and measurable
learning objectives and crafting
and testing the appropriate
instruments that will provide
evidence of learning.
Mentoring. Collaboration, Innovation. Feedback. Belonging. A healthy culture means happiness, engagement, and productivity. More than a set of principles, company and team culture are defined by values and practices
Padraig Nash has worked in the field of education for over twenty-five years, as a teacher, teaching-artist, researcher, consultant, program director, designer, and learning engineer. He has a PhD in the Learning Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he built virtual internships to teach young people how to see and solve problems in the ways that professional communities do, and developed innovative ways to understand mentoring processes and measure professional thinking. He has been working in the Ed Tech space (Amplify, Cengage, Udemy) for the last 10 years as a learning design leader, helping companies improve their products so they are better for learners (i.e. lead to learning outcomes).
While I was Head of School at St. Paul’s Prep in Oakland, Padraig field-tested Amplify Science’s Engineering Internships with our Middle School Students. The project was both rigorous and fun for our students, and I was also impressed at how careful the learning designers were at collecting data about how the programs worked. I consider Padraig an expert at Learning Design for K-12 students, and have for decades consistently leaned on him to be a thought partner about all things learning design and Ed Tech.
Padraig is both a colleague and friend, and I would strongly recommend him for a wide range of roles in learning design and development. He brings exceptional expertise in learning design, particularly in creating engaging and impactful learning experiences for youth of all ages. His work combines a deep understanding of learning objectives and assessment alignment with innovative approaches to mentoring and social learning. I consider him a leader at connecting learning theory to good design to real-world impact and I admire his ability to collaborate and enhance the work of those around him.
Padraig teaches the “Learning Analytics and Instructional Design” course in University of Wisconsin-Madison’s MS in Learning Analytics program (offered through the #1-ranked Department of Educational Psychology in the #1-ranked School of Education, per US News & World Report). He brings a valued combination of deep industry expertise in learning design and advanced understanding of learning analytics that both challenges and extends traditional instructional design practice. He encourages students to dig deeper into their work and has evolved the course based on student feedback as well as current trends in both the instructional design and learning analytics industries.
Working with Padraig at Amplify Science was a fantastic experience. Padraig had a vision for how to intertwine the Next Generation Science and Engineering Standards with digital learning in a fun and productive way, and was able to clearly direct the execution of that vision. Ten years after the release of the curriculum, it has been adopted in districts and schools across all 50 states. The Engineering Internships remain one of the most highly reviewed components of the curriculum overall by both students and teachers. As a science educator and communicator, I still think about how those internships were an innovative way to simultaneously teach and authentically assess science content while immersing students in project-based engineering activities.