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Duolingo’s a free app for learning languages. There are versions available for the iOS and for Android and at the time of writing you can use it to learn French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.

The FELTAG (Further Education Learning Technology Action Group) horizon scanning report looks at what the significant technology might be in the next 5 to 10 years in the vocational, education and training (VET) sector. MOOCs, social media, telepresence (remote working) and learning analytics all get a look in. It’s a good summary of the different technologies.

SkillsLogic and Musgrave Analytics have designed and developed the NHS Providers new web based data collection and analysis system. This new web based system makes it easier for NHS Providers to catalog, analyse and then report on the data they collect from their members.

Our Sheffield software development team is busy with new work and we're now recruiting again.

We have a vacancy for a PHP web application developer.

We're looking for good analyst developers who have strong PHP skills - our ideal candidate is someone who's comfortable working directly with clients and who's got a track record of web application development with PHP & MySql or PostgreSQL.

Please get in touch if you're interested. We're easy to find in the centre of town and we're always happy to meet people informally for a chat about what we do and the kinds of roles we have available.

Say hello to Matas, the latest member of our Sheffield software development team. Matas is a computer science graduate from Vilnius University in Lithuania and he’s joined us as a web application developer.

We regularly add new features to the Skills Matrix online tutor management system to make it even easier for our clients to find, recruit and manage hourly-paid staff. The latest release includes new job board features and improvements to candidate self-registration and the HR approval process.

Here's Tom McLellan from our Sheffield software development team looking very smart at his graduation yesterday. Congratulations Tom - he got a First in Interactive Media with Animation. And Tom got a prize - The Brightest Spark for Games Development & Design!

Johan Oldekop gave a good talk about visualising data with infographics at the Showroom here in Sheffield yesterday evening. Johan’s from Sheffield University’s Institute for International Development and his event was part of the 11th Annual ESRC Festival of Social Science.

1. Two million students doing vocation based learning online with ‘Alison’

2. London University signs up 200,00 students for 4 online courses

3. US plans global network of online courses

4. Spocs - Moocs on a small scale

5. XuetangX, online education in China - edX selected to be platform for China’s largest online learning initiative

In the past I’ve always planned software development projects with Microsoft Project - but only for producing nice Gantt charts to show tasks and the dependencies between them and never really for resource planning (I always found it over complicated).