July 31, 2009

Summer Projects

Summer is a busy period for e-learning; your learners may be off on holiday but it is a great time to perform techinal overhauls and consider how your e-learning implementation is going.

Give yourself an appraisal and see how it is going. Is it being used? Do staff know how to use the system and provide useful resources to users? Do learners see it is a useful resource in their education or another technically complicatedat o hurdle? Do you have a learning environment you spend thousands on but it lies empty?

For clients in the education sector NetCarrel are busy collating data and writing reports on how their VLEs have performed, calculating the uptake and the overall impact they have had on learning. We are also preparing for the onslaught of new students, new staff, new government directives and new curriculums. It’s a busy time of year, especially as more and more users will rely on their VLE as their bridge of learning over the summer.

In the corporate sector we’ve recently launched a Moodle installation for delivering training to the diverse multi-language workforce of a global catering and hospitality giant. It’s a challenging project to produce a system that is at once intuitive but also able to get users through to complex learning materials and make it sink in. We’re currently gaining feedback from the pilot group and hoping to roll the system out to several thousand users in the coming months, we’ll have more details on this exciting project soon.

Also very soon we’ll have an update from our MD Haydn Jones who will be producing a guest blog post for Ian Usher’s great blog Changing the Game?. Ian is the Buckinghamshire County Council e-Learning Coordinator and an Adobe Education Leader. Haydn will document the work NetCarrel has completed for one of our long term clients, Great Marlow School - it will document the process of creating and maintaining a Moodle installation as a robust VLE but also as a regularly updated and attractive public school website.

If you think NetCarrel could help your organisation, big or small, in revamping its e-learning programme this summer just get in touch.

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July 22, 2009

our latest corporate client’s e-learning environment just went live. See how NetCarrel can help your business - http://bit.ly/3xIT0c

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June 18, 2009

finishing off one project as another begins, exploring some great looking e- and m-learning tools to create a lively corporate VLE.

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May 18, 2009

completing work for one of our client schools in Buckinghamshire and producing a report for a company that needs a learning environment ASAP

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May 12, 2009
Learning Today In NetCarrel’s work in the education sector we’ve come to realise that the bond that exists between students and their teachers, parents and carers is the most important element in their education; it goes beyond the classroom and it directly relates to the choices they make in their lives and how they interact with future educators, employers, friends and colleagues. NetCarrel are a technology company and we know that tools and the web can help, but beyond and above this our aim is to support these learning relationships and not cloud them with abbreviations, immeasurable targets or technical terminology. The header of this post comes from a BECTA report which can be read here. It highlights an alienation in both student and parents/carers in arguably the most important juncture of their lives: the awakening of a learner’s mind and the valediction of parenthood. NetCarrel has worked with global corporations, transatlantic organisations, local councils, world class universities and village schools but some of our most effective work has been on a one to one basis - helping educators, parents and carers, tutors, individuals, charities and trainers in providing the best possible education to their charges. We do this by respecting the privacy and development of the learners whilst offering them the opportunity to engage, through a genuine alternative to traditional media of putting your hand up or asking your parents. Some students don’t have the fortitude for the former or the luxury of the latter - we are dedicated to resolving this. It’s quite old but worth watching in this context - A Vision of Students Today

Learning Today

In NetCarrel’s work in the education sector we’ve come to realise that the bond that exists between students and their teachers, parents and carers is the most important element in their education; it goes beyond the classroom and it directly relates to the choices they make in their lives and how they interact with future educators, employers, friends and colleagues. NetCarrel are a technology company and we know that tools and the web can help, but beyond and above this our aim is to support these learning relationships and not cloud them with abbreviations, immeasurable targets or technical terminology.

The header of this post comes from a BECTA report which can be read here. It highlights an alienation in both student and parents/carers in arguably the most important juncture of their lives: the awakening of a learner’s mind and the valediction of parenthood.

NetCarrel has worked with global corporations, transatlantic organisations, local councils, world class universities and village schools but some of our most effective work has been on a one to one basis - helping educators, parents and carers, tutors, individuals, charities and trainers in providing the best possible education to their charges. We do this by respecting the privacy and development of the learners whilst offering them the opportunity to engage, through a genuine alternative to traditional media of putting your hand up or asking your parents. Some students don’t have the fortitude for the former or the luxury of the latter - we are dedicated to resolving this.

It’s quite old but worth watching in this context - A Vision of Students Today

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May 10, 2009
Screen capture of the new NetCarrel website It’s long overdue and still needs some tweaking of content and design but the new site is online. We use our own theme on a ModX install hosted by the excellent Kohera Limited.

Screen capture of the new NetCarrel website

It’s long overdue and still needs some tweaking of content and design but the new site is online. We use our own theme on a ModX install hosted by the excellent Kohera Limited.

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Our new website is live

We’ve just relaunched our website where you can find out about the company, who we are and what we do.

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