Made by a trainer who has led groups herself, in the classroom and in the training room.
LudensFlow is a small, independent platform with one founder. 43 structures with their sources, and next to each the learning strategy the class trains. Packaged for the lesson: steps, roles and timer run on the board, started in a minute. All in one place, no juggling books, sites and separate tools. Three languages, and everything that is method is free.
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I’m Oksana. I was always the most active kid in the classroom, and I can’t stand “just work in groups”. You know what happens next: one talks, two wait, one checks out. The quiet student never gets a turn; the loud one gets three.
That is not a problem with collaboration. It is a problem with the task. “Work in groups” tells students where to sit, not what to do.
What does work has existed for decades: cooperative structures, Liberating Structures, intervision methods, the rituals of agile teams. There, the steps, the roles and the minutes were thought out in advance. The problem was never a lack of methods. The problem is that they live in books and training courses, not on the board on a Tuesday morning at 8:30.
Hence LudensFlow. The steps are on the screen, the timer is running, everyone knows what to do. You watch the group instead of your notes. I build it myself, one structure at a time, and test it with teachers who run it in their classroom the next day.
Live interaction between people.
Not a screen per student, but people thinking, talking and deciding together. In a class, in a team at work, in a circle after work. Wherever a group wants to learn something or move on together.
Built on what we know about learning.
Thinking time before talking. A turn for everyone, so nobody can hide and nobody has to carry it alone. One instruction on the board at a time, so attention goes to the thinking, not the screen. We follow the research on learning and attention and change the structures when we learn something better.
Being better with each other.
This is our piece of a better world, small and concrete: people who have practised listening, taking turns and thinking together carry it out of the room. Into the next lesson, the next meeting, the next conversation.
Routine to the machine, judgement to you.
LudensFlow does the timer, the steps, the roles and a first set of statements. You choose the structure, adjust the words and read the group. That is why everything here is one clear structure: changed in a minute, used without a manual.
43
structures
Cooperative learning, intervision, Liberating Structures, energizers. Every step on the board, with a timer and roles.
3
languages
Dutch, Ukrainian and English. The same structure, the same steps, in the language of your group.
€ 0
for the method
Every structure is free and runs without an account, new ones included. You pay only for what comes on top: building lessons, insight, the school licence.
We did not invent the methods. We make them runnable, and we name the source.
Cooperative learning
The cooperative structures were developed by Spencer Kagan and colleagues. We give each structure its steps, roles and timing on the board.
All cooperative structures →Liberating Structures
Developed by Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless and shared freely under CC BY-SA. We follow the descriptions and write our own instructions.
The Liberating Structures →Intervision and agile
The incident method, the Socratic dialogue, the gossip method, and from the agile world the daily scrum. Methods for teams, not only for classes.
The intervision methods →No app for students.
The structure runs on your screen. Students need no account and no phone. They look at each other.
The method stays free.
You pay only for what comes on top: building whole lessons, insight into your own practice, a school licence. Never for access to a structure.
What is on the page is on the board.
The steps you read beforehand are the ones the class sees. Every sentence is written as an instruction a group will follow literally.
AI helps you prepare, not teach.
Generate statements and questions if you like; you edit them before you start. In the lesson, only your content is on the board.
“I like using Stand Up Sit Down myself, for instance at the start of a lesson to activate prior knowledge or to go over last lesson’s material. At the end I use it to see what the students have learned. With my newcomer students these structures bring variety and movement into the lesson and get everyone to take part.”
“Ready-made structures broken into steps. Everything goes on the screen, and every participant knows what to do. What I find closest to my heart in this idea is the role of the teacher. Here it is not ‘I talk and you listen’. The teacher or trainer is the coordinator of the process. That is exactly where modern education is heading, for adults and children alike.”
“LudensFlow is really well designed, a design you actually understand. Thank you! I’ll work my way in step by step.”
From public posts and, with permission, from private messages. Names only with permission.
Oksana Oliinyk
Trainer, facilitator and founder. Previously taught English and the 4Cs (critical thinking, creativity, communication, collaboration), and designed and ran mentor sessions with fellow mentors in which teenagers practised collaboration, independence and communication. Now builds the product and writes the structures in three languages.
A question, a pilot at your school, or just telling us how it went?
Write to hello@ludensflow.com. Oksana answers, not a helpdesk.