Improving Performance Improvement: Why it’s tough going
Insights 2By Mirjam Neelen
This blog is the first in a series on improving performance improvement. The idea is to explore various components, such as metrics or employee engagement that come into play when trying to achieve this. In this blog, I discuss…
The Role of Empathy in Designing for Education
Insights 2Evangelos Kapros
The design of educational user interfaces and experiences (UI/UX) has existed as long as educational technology itself. However, it has not been until recently that awareness around and appreciation of educational UX has…
5 alternative ways to measure the impact of EdTech innovation?
Insights 2Many education systems around the world (Ireland included) continue to be enthralled to high stakes exams as a means of assessing students. We still tend to value what we measure, rather than measuring what we really value. As a result,…
Game-based Learning for Early Childhood (Part 2)
Insights 2by Neil Peirce PhD
In the first part of this 2-part blog post I highlighted the growing market for early childhood games and some of the emerging best-practices for designing such games. In this post I continue by looking at the evidence…
Game-based Learning for Early Childhood (Part 1)
Insights 2by Neil Peirce PhD
The increasing pervasiveness of computers and mobile digital devices within homes, has opened a new market for game-based learning, that of educational games for early childhood. A survey of the Apple App Store conducted…
