It focuses on activating key elements that enhance the learning experience, encouraging deeper understanding, creativity, engagement and self-determination. The model typically integrates various educational theories and practices to foster an environment where learners are actively involved and motivated. Dimensions of Learning, Universal Design for Learning, Project-based Learning and Vivedus are all Learning Activation Models. But Vivedus is the only LAM designed to activate creative intelligence, not only with the provision of pedagogies, but also assessment tools that measure complex capabilities. Vivedus is also the only LAM built onto a digital, AI-enabled platform to make adoption by schools and educators seamless.

The Solution

The ViVEDUS Story

To solve the problem of schools killing creativity, a team of educators combined their 120+ years of experience and their respective academic research with theory from world-leading experts in creativity, possibility thinking and assessment practices, and a research partnership with the Graduate School of Education at The University of Melbourne, to create Vivedus.

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Our Values

The team at ViVEDUS live and breath our values in everything we do - it's how we measure success.

We are all born as creative beings. Creativity is, therefore, an inherent and universal human quality, a quality that contributes to the advancement of society and to the development of knowledge. To be creative is essential to human fulfilment.

Vivedus nurtures what makes a person truly human by fostering their creative, innovative, and entrepreneurial capacities. Without creativity we cannot contribute to solving the world’s problems, improving other people’s lives, or finding meaningful employment in the era of Artificial Intelligence.

Without creativity we can never really flourish. To be creative is to add vibrancy to life. We were made to be creative.

But it isn’t a matter of dichotomy, either academia OR creativity. The two ought to go together hand-in-glove, empowering people to apply learning to generate new ideas.

Vivedus is agency driven by creativity.

Vivedus places learning in the hands of the student and the teacher as collaborative partners in education. Vivedus encourages teachers and students to make links between subject areas (interdisciplinary learning) so they apply their knowledge to generate new information and ideas.

Learner agency means engagement. When students are engaged, the joy of learning is made visible; education becomes ‘living’.

Vivedus is a platform for teachers to share ideas, grow professionally, and unleash the joy of teaching and learning. Vivedus collaboration means we can realise ideas and learning beyond the curriculum, beyond our own classrooms and beyond our own imagination, while simultaneously ensuring the demands of the curriculum are met.

Collaboration means relationships (within and beyond your school), and relationships which add colour to our life by providing connection, meaning and purpose.

Vivedus is about belonging to a movement. Together, as a community of practice, we can achieve Vivedus’s vision to transform education globally.

Vivedus’s team value and employ academic research and data to ensure that what we offer is reliable, robust, compliant and therefore, trustworthy.

Over 25 years of research and development on the part of Vivedus’s Lead Educator, Gabrielle Kempton, a combined 120 years of educational experience and three research degrees (Paul Browning (2) and Gabrielle Kempton (1)), along with research partnerships with The Queensland University of Technology, Griffith University and The University of Melbourne ensure that Vivedus’s approach to learning not only fosters creativity, improves student engagement and supports the professional growth of teachers, it also enhances academic results.

While Vivedus is not curriculum dependent (it works with any curriculum) it is fully compliant with all mandated Australian and State government requirements (ACARA and NCCD). The same will be said when Vivedus is launched globally.

Vivedus’s digital platform has undergone rigorous penetration testing ensuring that all data are secure. Our SaaS platform is built using a reliable and efficient tech stack, including Golang, HTMX, Planetscale for database management, and Clerk for authentication.

From the Managing Director

Since 2014, a group of educators have had a compelling vision. That vision is to see education transformed to enable young people to thrive in the AI era.

The vision is predicated on the certain knowledge that the world has entered a period of change like none previously seen in human history. We have entered an ‘age of acceleration’. The future of “work” is being transformed by advances in artificial intelligence and robotics. New jobs are emerging, but they will be filled by people with the ability to think creatively.

Endorsements

ViVEDUS is trusted by hundreds of teachers and parents. Read what just a few of them have to say.

It blows me away

It is just crazy! It’s like my own personal mentor, but what is super exciting is that it takes away the perceived judgement that a real person can bring to a mentor situation and meets you where you are at as a teacher. Not only that, but with a [human] mentor you are only going to be as good as your mentor. With Viv-it possibilities are endless. It blows me away.

Meg Foley

Founding Principal, Omni Academies of Learning

"We feel lucky that our son was exposed to Vivedus"

“One of our main concerns as parents of a child who will graduate in 2027 is, ‘Will our child have the skills to enter the workforce and be a successful, happy and contributing member of society?’ Coupled with this concern is, ‘What jobs will even be around in a post-2027 world?’ We felt that Vivedus addressed these concerns because not only does it cover the basics of learning but it also develops other integral skills, critical to the new world economy, such as curiosity, failing forward, developing empathy and enabling and fostering creativity. We knew a lot of solid research had gone into developing Vivedus (and would continue to go into it) and this also cemented our view that it was an integral tool for our child’s current and future success as a student and person. We feel lucky that our son was exposed to Vivedus, even if only for a short time, as we know this innovative education approach has had a positive benefit for him, now and into the future.”

Cori

Lawyer, Public Servant, Author

Geoff

Small business owner

"What made Vivedus so powerful for my students was being able to identify the extent to which they had demonstrated these capacities and to set goals that went beyond the confines of that learning experience."

"Vivedus helped me understand the importance of teaching for creativity; to support students in developing capabilities that prepare them for a world full of uncertainty and rapidly-accelerating change. One of the challenges for me during the planning of a Vivedus learning sequence was to think differently by making these capabilities a key consideration, along with the subject matter and skills of the curriculum. This required me to think more deeply about the content and skills, how I wanted students to demonstrate their learning, what pedagogical strategies I could use, and to leverage the learning environment to support this. This approach allowed my students to demonstrate their understanding in creative ways, reflecting a depth of knowledge and skills that an exam or other assessment types couldn’t allow for. What made Vivedus so powerful for my students was being able to identify the extent to which they had demonstrated these capacities and to set goals that went beyond the confines of that learning experience."

Stephen

High school teacher

“As a parent committed to fostering critical thinking, I sought an innovative educational framework. Discovering Vivedus has been transformative for our child, nurturing curiosity and preparing them for an ever-changing world. This approach encourages exploration and collaboration, fostering a mindset that values ingenuity over conformity. It's reassuring to know our child is not just memorizing facts but comprehending and evaluating knowledge, enabling them to expand beyond their current understanding."

Michelle

Design Technology, Architecture

"Vivedus helped my child to think differently, for themselves, to be creative, look at alternatives and consider possibilities not to just follow procedural instruction but always look to consider alternatives and improvements in doing things and how to innovate."

Michael

Chief Engineer

“The most important role of school education is to prepare students for their futures. Faced with rapid changes in technology (including AI) and the nature of work, Vivedus equips students with the skills they will need to thrive. While many current vocations may change or disappear, innovative and adaptive thinkers will always be valued and sought after. It is a great comfort to know that Vivedus, applied across various subjects, has encouraged our children to develop traits such as creativity, empathy, entrepreneurship, adaptability, critical analysis and higher-order thinking. Like other elements of society, education must evolve and adapt – Vivedus complements more traditional education by offering students the advantage of a resilient and future-proof skill set.”

Stuart

Solicitor

“I am enormously proud to be associated with Vivedus. I believe there is a global need for a definitive teaching framework that truly responds to the needs of 21st Century learners. When a child from an early age, can explain their preferred learning styles, articulate the strengths and gifts they bring to a learning experience and creatively use knowledge to be innovative problem solvers, they will evolve from their educational experience with the tools they need to succeed. In our fast-paced world, constant change is inevitable, requiring a new approach to the facilitation of learning, where children become agents of their own learning, to shape their own futures with an agility nurtured by the Vivedus approach. Children will feel a strong sense of belonging and love coming to school, because their learning will be relevant to the world they will grow up in today and live in tomorrow. I look forward to evolving Vivedus to be the preeminent global teaching tool.”

Grant O'Hara

Director

“Vivedus is an excellent teaching tool that not only enables young people to apply the content of the Australian Curriculum in contemporary society, but also to deliver learning that equips young people to be entrepreneurial in their thinking and apply knowledge to their everyday experiences as contributing members of 21st century society.” “I am also confident that schools, outside Australia, teaching a curriculum other than the Australian Curriculum would find Vivedus to be a thoroughly rewarding teaching tool for students and staff.”