iSpring webinar asks why eLearning courses lose their flavour
Learning Design Kitchen's Albert Vis and Evelien van Unen join iSpring on 3 September to explain why solid research and good tools still produce forgettable courses, and how a structured design process changes that.
A course can start with everything going for it: proper research, a subject-matter expert on tap, decent slides, a capable authoring tool. Somewhere between that starting point and the learner's screen, much of that value goes missing. The course arrives content-heavy, generic, or simply easy to forget.
That gap is the subject of iSpring's next webinar, A Recipe for Results: Adding Flavour to eLearning, hosted with Albert Vis and Evelien van Unen of Learning Design Kitchen.
Their argument is that the fix rarely sits in the tools or the volume of content. It sits earlier, in the design choices made before anyone opens an authoring tool.
Vis and van Unen have built a practice around that idea for two decades, working across education and corporate L&D. They met in 2007 at a Dutch vocational training organisation that was hiring e-learning specialists, and neither came from a classic instructional-design background — both had roots in multimedia and interaction design instead. That history still shapes how Learning Design Kitchen operates: didactic structure matters, but so does how a course actually feels to sit through.
The pair are known in Dutch and international L&D circles for translating that structure into physical, workshop-friendly tools rather than theory alone. Their "Ingredients Box" maps learning goals, content, and structure before a course gets built, and their wider method leans on a kitchen vocabulary — ingredients, techniques, recipes — to make design decisions concrete for people who aren't instructional designers by training. It's a deliberately unacademic way of getting teams, subject-matter experts and stakeholders working from the same plan.
During the session, attendees can expect to work through:
- Common design problems that quietly drain value out of a course
- Turning a vague training request into learning objectives that hold up
- Making design decisions before production starts, not during it
- Selecting the right approach for a given audience, goal, and context
- Applying Learning Design Kitchen's own tools to a real design problem
A Recipe for Results: Adding Flavour to eLearning
- Thursday, 3 September 2026
- 4:00 PM CET
- 1 hour
- Certificate of attendance and session recording provided to attendees
Register here: A Recipe for Results: Adding Flavour to eLearning