Posts on Education & Training
Future Apprenticeships - 3 Million New Starts by 2020 is a Big Goal
How we developed a course booking system for the Education and Training Foundation
Learning Analytics - Build an FE College Business Intelligence Dashboard with Microsoft Power BI
The Education and Training Foundation’s New Course Booking System
Building a FE College Financial Benchmarking Tool with Power BI
Visualising Skills Funding Agency Learner and Qualifications Data with Microsoft Power BI
There's a lot of Skills Funding Agency data freely available of the web - much of it derived from the individualised learner record (ILR).
Microsoft Power BI is a good tool for making sense of what can be quite complex data. It's straightforward to build simple interactive visualisations that highlight patterns in the data and make it easier to spot trends. And sharing Power BI dashboards is also easy - at the moment Microsoft lets you share dashboards via a public url for free.
Bill Gates and others talking about online education
6th Davos Philanthropic Roundtable "RevolutiOnline.edu - Online Education Changing the World". A long video but worth watching if you're interested in education and new technology.
Shopping at Waitrose, schools and online games
Usually when I'm at the checkout in Waitrose in Sheffield I get one of those little green tokens that you put in one of the three charity boxes near the exit. You read the label on each box and then use the token to vote for the local charity that you think should get a donation. It's a nice idea - it's always interesting to see which box contains the most green tokens and I guess it's a very effective and very visible (and tactile) way of making the customer aware of Waitrose's support for the local community.
Why not give Google+ a try?
Online Learning in HE
More news this week from the US about free online access to university courses. This time Coursera, the online platform created by two academics from Stanford, announced that a new bunch of universities including the University of Edinburgh have signed up to make some of their courses available on the platform.
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EQUAL - Bespoke E-Learning Platform
Read about how we developed a bespoke learning management system for The Skills Network
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E-Learning Design - Social Care
Read about the work we're doing for the National Association for Providers of Activities for Older People
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Software Development - clickLearner
Read about how we developed a new video based e-learning solution for a Sheffield company.