Active Learning that’s Intuitive, Immersive & Impactful For All

Seamlessly integrate customisable challenges and projects alongside your lectures to significantly improve student learning outcomes.

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What We Do

Learners address real-world collaborative challenges & projects

Curriculum Goals + Authentic Assessment = High-Impact Learning
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1. Learners address real-world collaborative challenges, projects & problems

Students engage in learning that is hands-on and minds-on. Teams solve exciting, complex industry-relevant challenges, designed by their educator for the module they’re studying. They empathise, solve problems, peer review, validate & iterate on ideas, make and test prototypes.

Curriculum Goals + Authentic Assessment = High-Impact Learning.

Students engage in active,
immersive, experiential learning

Module-Specific Real-World Challenge + Structured Framework = High-Impact Learning
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Students engage in active, immersive, experiential learning

Learners are immersed in an intuitive, structured, proven framework for real-world, hands-on collaborative problem-solving challenges and projects. Our stage-gate process, ‘pro tip’ prompts and gamification keep students engaged and motivated to learn.

Relevant Challenge + Structured Framework = High-Impact Learning.

Students foster career-ready, in-demand knowledge & skills

Career-Ready Knowledge & Skills + Learning Science = High-Impact Learning
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Students foster career-ready, in-demand knowledge & skills

Students are motivated to think creatively, make unexpected connections, and craft innovative solutions. Teams critically analyse and refine ideas, evidence, and arguments, including feedback triggers on their ideas from our custom-trained AI Idea Assistant.

Future Focused Know-How + Learning Science = High-Impact Learning

Support inclusive learning & belonging that benefits everyone

Inclusive Learning Culture + Accessible Tech = High-Impact Learning
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4. Support inclusive learning & belonging that benefits everyone

Participants experience baked-in neuro-inclusiveness that creates learning experiences designed to support different ways of focusing, different sensory needs, different pacing and different ways of processing information. It is intentionally designed to help intercultural collaborators with different first languages to work together smoothly, respectfully, and effectively.

Inclusive Learning Culture + Accessible Tech = High-Impact Learning.

Benefits

Improve Student
Learning Outcomes

Stanford d-school reports that we learn (a) when we care (b) when we engage our emotions (c) from and with others (not just from the educator) (d) by doing and trying new things (and reflecting on those experiences). 

Our active learning platform is built on these four essential pillars, ensuring learning is relevant, immersive, collaborative, and hands-on, for deep, lasting impact.

Edgar Dale’s 1946 “Learning Pyramid,” later adapted by the National Training Laboratories, concludes that learning is most effective when rooted in hands-on, active experiences—doing, iterating and feedback exchange—rather than passive listening or reading, fostering deep and broad understanding of the subject.

It’s this kind of immersive, experiential learning that drives our commitment to active learning —where lectures spark ideas, and real-world challenges bring them to life.

Our stage-gate active learning process boosts motivation by breaking projects into clear, manageable milestones, creating frequent wins that energises learners. It encourages reflection through educator, peer & expert feedback, balances structure with creative freedom, and supports high-performing teamwork —key ingredients for sustained engagement and deeper learning.

Anytime Creativity is inclusive by design with baked-in accessibility features (chunk content, multimodal resources, assistive tech, clear navigation and adjustable pacing) that support all learners. This means that neurodiverse learners, representing anywhere between 10 and 30 percent of students in higher education, feel fully supported and learners from diverse cultures and linguistic backgrounds can collaborate with ease.

Improve Student Learning Outcomes
Streamline Educator Workload

Streamline Educator Workload

Our friendly, experienced team works closely with you to shape the challenge parameters, components, and timelines that align with your curriculum goals and delivery strategy. From there, the platform gently guides students on an immersive, empowering active learning journey.

The platform’s stage-gate process and educator dashboard provide you with clear oversight of student progress in real-time, allowing you to easily monitor and intervene in the learning experience where required.

Our automated communication system takes care of all student instructions and common queries, reducing admin load so you can focus on what you do best—bringing your subject to life. Meanwhile, our step-by-step explainer videos, timely prompts, Pro Tips, and Anytime Chatroom keeps students motivated, on track, and fully engaged throughout.

Your active learning experience thoughtfully blends personal and collaborative components, helping you ensure every student is meaningfully engaged. Our educator dashboard offers rich, easy-to-use analytics that support you to understand & assess individual and collective impact.

Our friendly, experienced team works closely with you to shape the challenge parameters, components, and timelines that align with your curriculum goals and delivery strategy. From there, the platform gently guides students on an immersive, empowering active learning journey.

The platform’s stage-gate process and educator dashboard provide you with clear oversight of student progress in real-time, allowing you to easily monitor and intervene in the learning experience where required.

Our automated communication system takes care of all student instructions and common queries, reducing admin load so you can focus on what you do best—bringing your subject to life. Meanwhile, our step-by-step explainer videos, timely prompts, Pro Tips, and Anytime Chatroom keeps students motivated, on track, and fully engaged throughout.

Your active learning experience thoughtfully blends personal and collaborative components, helping you ensure every student is meaningfully engaged. Our educator dashboard offers rich, easy-to-use analytics that support you to understand & assess individual and collective impact.

Streamline Educator Workload

Streamline Educator Workload

Align with Institutional Objectives

University strategies are increasingly focused on promoting inclusion and belonging to boost student retention, mental wellbeing, and engagement, foster diversity, enhance academic success, and prepare students for collaborative, global careers in an increasingly connected world.

Our platform helps you to build these inclusive communities through real-world collaborative, creative, complex problem-solving and flexible education that benefits everyone.

The biennial World Economic Forum, Jobs of the Future Report consistently finds  critical / analytical thinking, creative thinking, complex problem-solving, flexibility & agility, empathy, curiosity, collaboration and AI as the top future skills.

Our platform is laser-focused on developing all these power skills.

A 2023 survey of Harvard faculty revealed that 47% believe AI will negatively affect higher education.

We provide educators with a way to easily and effectively introduce AI for Good into their classroom. Our AI Idea Assistant, Inspiro, has been developed in collaboration with Microsoft, The Garage, to teach students best-practices when using AI to support active learning, critical thinking and collaborative, creative complex problem-solving.

T&L teams across higher education are encouraging educators to adapt innovative pedagogies in order to boost student success, institutional reputation, and graduate employability. Approaches like active learning and design thinking support inclusivity, attract diverse learners, foster academic excellence, and future-proof universities in an evolving educational and employment landscape.

Align with Institutional Strategic Objectives

Our flexible, modular active learning framework

  • Empathy & Define

    Students choose from lecturer-identified focus areas, capture research findings on our interactive Insights Whiteboard, and frame a narrowly defined problem using our point of view statement template.

  • Ideate & Validate

    Students brainstorm solutions on our roughwork canvas and engage with Inspiro, our integrated persona-driven AI Idea Assistant, to validate their ideas. They also hone their prompt engineering & critical thinking skills.

  • Peer & Industry Feedback

    Students give & receive feedback on ideas with classmates and can also capture insights on their ideas from faculty members and/or our panel of industry subject matter experts.

  • Prototype

    Our built-in AI image generator brings student ideas to life quickly and effortlessly, while lecturers can also opt for students to design and upload more granular prototypes.

  • Discuss

    Students engage with each other’s ideas through a social media-inspired feed, where they can react, comment, and spark meaningful conversations, enabling them to understand their idea from diverse perspectives.

  • Premium Extras

    Lecturers can add additional business model canvases (classic, social, sustainability or lean). They can also introduce disruptive scenarios to encourage students to consider unexpected events. Our portfolio tool helps students visually organise their work, while allowing lecturers to add learning questions or reflective activities.

  • Digital Badges

    Students who complete each stage are rewarded with a digital badge, which they can add to LinkedIn to showcase their in-demand skills to future employers.

Clients

Empowering teaching and learning at

Adapted for & hugely valued by learners at

Empowering teaching and learning at

Adapted for & hugely valued by learners at

Case Study

UCD Innovation Academy

Dr. Thomas Macango, Education Innovation Lead & Module Coordinator for the UCD Innovation Academy Innovation for Sustainability module, wanted a way to keep his students engaged, but reduce the admin burden associated with setting up the challenge, communicating it and maintaining oversight on where students are along the way.

We collaboratively designed a customised challenge with Tom where students developed sustainable innovations for key sectors of the Irish economy. The platform seamlessly guided them through five structured stages, allowing Tom to focus on teaching whilst the platform engaged students in their challenge.

  • 20% increase in students’ confidence to solve problems.
  • Over 80% of students rated the platform as “Very useful” or “Extremely useful” in keeping them engaged throughout.
  • Approx. 50 hours saved by the educator.
  • On average, students rated the overall experience as 8.5/10

“Once we decided on the challenge topic and content, the Anytime
Creativity platform and team handled everything seamlessly, freeing me to focus on teaching while maintaining oversight on student work throughout the process. It’s a great tool for busy educators.”

Dr. Thomas Macango,
Innovation Education Lead &
Innovation for Sustainability Module Coordinator,
UCD Innovation Academy

“The platform made our sustainability challenge feel exciting and easy to dive into. The breakdown into stages and dynamic tools along the way made it a smooth experience. The engaging, interactive interface
and the creative stage launches added a fun, dynamic element to the
experience too. It almost felt like we were being taken on a magical
mystery tour!”

Anne-Marie Driver,
Student

TCD School of Biochemistry and Immunology

Dr. Jean Fletcher, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Teaching & Learning, wanted to engage her class of immunotherapeutics
students in a deeper learning experience, where they could foster
their creative problem-solving skills and challenge themselves beyond
traditional means – something that seemed quite daunting, given her
lack of the technical nature of the module and her lack of CBL
facilitation experience.

We worked closely with Jean to design a challenge that allowed
students to develop new ideas for the immunotherapeutics community. By using the platform, students were able to engage in collective
critical thinking and creative problem-solving, while staying within the scientific boundaries necessary for the subject.

  • 95% of students found the platform ‘Very Useful’ or ‘Extremely Useful’ at deepening their subject matter knowledge
  • 100% of students found the platform ‘Very Useful’ or ‘Extremely
    Useful’ at supporting effective collaboration
  • On average, students rated the overall experience as 8.5/10
  • 15% increase in students’ confidence to generate creative ideas

“We used Anytime Creativity within our immunotherapeutics class to
challenge students in a way that went beyond traditional methods,
fostering a deeper, more engaged learning experience. The platform
allowed me to seamlessly integrate challenge-based learning into the
module, encouraging collaboration, creative thinking and critical
analysis.”

Dr. Jean Fletcher
Associate Professor of Immunotherapeutics and Director of Undergraduate Teaching & Learning
Trinity School of Biochemistry & Immunology

“It was a fun challenge to do that got us thinking about drug
development in a different way.”

Student (anonymous survey response)

Experts

Our panel of volunteer industry experts help student teams with insights & idea validation

Daniel Kyne
Founder & CEO,
OpinionX
John McKeon

Founder & CEO,
Allergy Standards

Sheila Stanley

Group ESG Strategy Lead,
Dublin Airport Authority

David Quirke
Senior Consultant,
UCG Solutions (US)
Fiona Rowley

Founder & Leadership Coach,
Empowerpeople

Jack Carey
Business Ops Manager,
Toucan
Sarah Thompson
Doctor,
St. Vincents Hospital Melbourne
Cormac Kavanagh
Education Lead,
Chartered Accountants Ireland

FAQs

Anytime Creativity is designed to be used anywhere, anytime and on any device, supporting collaboration however the educator or students wish. We’ve seen it used equally as effectively within both in-person and virtual classes.

This varies greatly depending on the emphasis the educator wants to place on the challenge as part of their module.

Typically we see challenges run over 3-4 weeks within a module – approximately a week for each of the team stages to allow time for collaboration and half a week for each of the individual stages. However, if the educator would like to include additional premium components, such as scenarios, BMC or portfolio, we suggest approximately one week for each.

On the other hand, the platform also serves as an excellent tool for improving the effectiveness, output and learning experience within Hackathons. In such instances, a challenge may only last 2-4 hours, depending on the time allocated to the Hackathon.

Ultimately, it is totally the educator/facilitator’s decision on how long a challenge lasts and the weight (if any) that it carries as part of the module assessment.

Once you’ve agreed to use the platform as part of your module (or Hackathon), we estimate your time commitment to be around 3 hours pre-launch. Our goal is to handle as much as the logistics as possible and free up your time to focus on delivering academic content.

Your 3 key responsibilities are;

1. Challenge customisation – agree on the challenge parameters that best suit your class (in collaboration with one of our CBL experts)

2. Team formation.

3. In-class updates and feedback (we manage communications of the student process).

There is no limit. We’ve had classes with as few as 20 students use and hugely value the experience. On the other hand, the platform is designed to easily engage large groups so can handle hundreds, or even thousands, for any given challenge.

Simply select a topic from your module that is both important and relevant. Then chat with one of our CBL experts who can quickly brainstorm with you on how to frame an amazing challenge for your class that engages students and deepens their learning experience.

Yes. We can accommodate LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) integration, embed the challenge directly into course pages, export student progress data for educators to review or integrate with gradebooks.

Yes. We have a set challenge that is free for anyone to use, which gives you a taste of the learning journey your students would embark on. We’re also happy to arrange micro pilots for you and your faculty colleagues or a sample of students to test the platform.