3 Best Practices for Implementing an LMS

Are you thinking about taking the leap to implement a new LMS? That's good. The LMS promises to solve many of your issues, and it's a good idea to have a solution in place. But, does just buying the LMS solve the issues and bring the promised[...]

Best Practices for Implementing Mobile Learning in Your Organisation

With the increase in adoption of smartphones and penetration of mobile broadband, organisations are now focusing more on mobile learning (M-learning) than ever before. As L&D teams are prioritising learning on the go, there are several factors that[...]

ICT Curriculum Design Incorporating LMS Literacy

Literacy, beyond the ability to read and right, is defined as ‘knowledge that relates to a specified subject’ (www.Merriam-Webster.com). For example computer literacy equals the knowledge of how to use a computer or cultural literacy equals[...]

2 benefits of effectively using a Collaborative Learning/Planning Portal

On a visit to Law Ting Pong Secondary School in Hong Kong, who have been using Teamie for two years now,  I was invited to meet with Eduardo, Spanish Teacher and an avid Teamie user.  Before getting into his innovative usage of the learning[...]

4 Practices to keep Students Engaged on your VLE

 Video of The Handshake Teacher went viral last month. The inspiring video of Barry White Jr., a Teacher at Ashley Park PreK-8 School in North Carolina, shows his ritual of performing an elaborate individualised secret handshake with each pupil[...]

10 things to know before you initiate that software development project

You can best support collaborative learning by using the right technical tools in your learning environment. Good tools can help you reach your goal easily while average or bad ones can hamper your objective. We sometimes run into education[...]

Best practices in formative assessment to support reading and writing development

“…attention to minute-by-minute and day-to-day formative assessment is likely to have the biggest impact on student outcomes.” - Dylan Wiliam

Looking at the materials section of Paul Turner’s English classes you see multiple assignments and[...]

Showcasing Student Learning through ePortfolios

Most schools have the practice of organizing exhibitions with the students presenting various models or displays of projects and the accompanying learning. The students present them to peers, parents and faculty.  It is important for the school[...]

Build a Learning Community instead of e-Learning

Education Technology has been around for decades, and has gone through various iterations in its form and function. Depending on how you define it and what you include; the market size for education technology is in billions or tens of billions of[...]

Supporting Unit of Inquiry through Collaborative Learning - Teamie in the PYP Classroom

I had the pleasure of visiting Nexus International School (Singapore) in the last week of November and seeing how they are putting the Teamie learning platform to good use in their teaching and learning in the International Baccalaureate (IB)[...]