The best hybrid learning studio and meeting space in downtown Toronto.
Our learning studios are built with the Learner Experience in mind. Our exclusive use rental classrooms share no common amenities and are a safe, sanitary learning and meeting space. Our technology makes it easy to run effective hybrid training courses and meetings.
It’s about the Learning … and the Learner
Most corporate training spaces are designed in one of two ways: either to maximize the number of learners that can fit in a room or to keep the room as flexible as possible to handle any type of event. And although that’s great for business, neither of these approaches are focused on the most important factor – the learner experience.
Learner First™ Learning Studios are designed from the ground up with the learner in mind. Our rental classroom help keep learners focused longer, allowing them to retain more of what they are taught.
Studies show that the physical learning environment can affect an adult’s ability to learn by as much as 25%. And since improved knowledge transfer and retention lead to an improved ROI on your training expenditure, you owe it to yourself to ensure that your learners can actually retain the information they are given.
Supporting hybrid events — the right way.
Corporate learning has changed. Moving forward more learners will want to connect virtually instead of coming in person. LearnerFirst has invested in a technology infrastructure that will keep the Learner Experience front and center for both remote and live students.
Audio - We have invested in Audio technology that allows remote students to communicate with the instructor and live participants regardless of where they sit in the classroom. Instructors are no longer tethered to their desks, instead they are free to roam the room.
Video - Sure, a camera in the front of the room capturing a group of live students is nice, but what does that give remote students? A small gallery square with a bunch of tiny faces in it. With no way to truly connect with live participants. At LearnerFirst we include a camera and connectivity at EVERY workstation. That way live students can connect to remote training sessions and appear in their own gallery image. This allows remote students to see who is speaking, and enables instructors to create breakout groups with a mix of live and remote students.
Virtual Producer - LearnerFirst are supported by Learngistics team of virtual producers. Whether onsite or connected remotely, our producers will ensure a more enjoyable experience for your learners.
An Enhanced Onsite Learner Experience
Comfortable Seating and Room to Move
If you want your learners to remain focused and engaged they need to be comfortable. In our studios, learner comfort is a prime concern.
Our space includes height adjustable chairs on wheels complete with lumbar support.
We limit our learning studios to a maximum number of participants to ensure enough space for each learner to be comfortable.
Focusing on Staying Focused
There are many unseen factors that can affect an adult learner’s ability to focus:
HVAC - When you rent a classroom in an event center you don’t control the HVAC and it can be difficult to maintain a comfortable temperature in a single room.
Noise - having exclusive use of the learning studio removes any chance of sound bleed from other rooms, a common concern in multi-room training centers.
Our learning studios are self contained spaces with independent, controllable HVAC systems that allow you to maintain the temperature for your learners. With no neighbouring sessions going on, sound bleed will not be an issue either.
Lighting to Help with Staying Alert
Ideally lighting in training rooms would follow a learner’s circadian rhythm, providing comforting, warmer light in the morning and stretching out learner’s peak focus, motivation and concentration times by providing a cooler light temperature period throughout the afternoon.
Our studio features full natural daylight combined with cooler temperature indoor LED lighting to help learners remain alert the entire day through. Using cooler temperature lighting helps reproduce lighting that occurs naturally at peak focus times during the day.
An Enhanced Hybrid Learner Experience
Good audio is as important as good video. If students can’t hear or understand what the instructor is saying, or conversely if the instructor can’t hear or respond to questions from remote students, the learner experience suffers. Utilizing top quality audio helps improve the quality of the training for remote learners.
It’s important for remote learners to feel connected with the classroom. By using high quality cameras that focus on the instructor as he moves around the room we can maintain some of that in-class feeling.
Elevate the experience for your online learners by engaging our onsite producer to help manage the technology. Our producers manage breakout rooms, chats, offer support to remote learners and can even monitor and mix camera angles within our studios.
Better for Trainers
Focus on training, not technology.
Easy Connection to A/V
VGA, HDMI, Displayport - whatever your connection, we have the adapter.
Learning Support On Site
Your learning support concierge is there to help you get started in the morning and is only a call away the rest of the day.
Come Early, Leave Late
We know sometime you need a bit more time to prepare, and time to pack up at the end of a training session. We make it easy to organize an early access or late departure.
Printer on Site
Need to print something that you’ve forgotten? Simply email the document to our printer and it will print for you right in the learning studio
An In-room Producer to manage your virtual Learners.
For events that include virtual learners, our Facility Manager can act as an in-room producer, managing the technology and offer tech support for learners trying to connect. They can also help manage the chat channels and breakout rooms. All with the goal of allowing the facilitator to focus on what they do best.
A Delight for Planners
The most delightful learning space you’ll ever work with. Our learning studio includes everything you need, all in one easy price.
Included Audio Visual
Everything you need to run a training session is included:
Projectors (2 x 80”)
Whiteboards (5)
55” VIBE Collaborative Whiteboard
Flipcharts (6)
Hi-Speed Internet (1 Gig + LTE redundancy)
Computers (on request)
Monitors (on request)
In-Floor Power
Speakers (built in)
Conference Phone (on request)
Webcasting equipment with broadcast quality platforms
Refreshments have never been easier to plan for
Each standard rental comes complete with:
Unlimited Coffee / Tea / Espresso, Lattes, Hot Chocolate, Tea, Soft Drinks and Juices
Choose your room layout.
Classroom*
Perfect for computer training or testing. Maximum learner count is 24.
Group Setting*
Set your learners up in groups of 6. Maximum learner count is 30.
Boardroom*
A traditional boardroom setting for up to 26 people.
U Shape*
Perfect for groups of up to 18 learners.
TRAINING ROOM SIZE: 40ft x 20ft (800 SQFT)
(Total Learning Studio ~ 1100 sqft)
Better for the Environment
Learner First™ works hard to reduce and neutralize our carbon footprint.
Carbon Credits
Each quarter we evaluate our carbon consumption based on space energy usage and participant travel estimates and purchase credits to offset our carbon footprint.
Carbon Neutral Carpeting
When looking at carpeting for our learning studios we chose to work with Interface Carpeting. Their line of carpeting is carbon neutral.
Energy Efficient Appliances
All of our major kitchen appliances are energy star. We utilize other strategies for reducing energy consumption by other electrical appliances.
Our location
Located conveniently in the heart of the financial district in downtown Toronto, our training center is easily accessible by both municipal and regional transit. Our PATH access means you never have to walk outside in the wintertime to get to or from transit.
120 Adelaide Street West, Suite 1900, Toronto, Ontario, M5H 1T1
Is Your Learning Project a Fit
Learner First™ Learning Studio is currently accepting new clients. Contact us to see if your corporate learning program will work in our space. One of our learning advisers will discuss your project and if it makes sense we’ll provide you with pricing to use the space.
You can use the form to the right or contact Audrey @ 647-821-6451