Recent Media Releases for UniServity
UniServity to provide new learning support tools for parents
A dynamic online ‘window' into student's attendance, attainment, behaviour and progression at school provides parents and carers with access to actively engage with their child's learning and create a dialogue with teachers, other parents and the whole school community.
UniServity, the market-leading Learning Platform provider, announces the imminent release of an exciting new product for Parents which will transform how they access, engage and support their child's learning journey. UniServity's Parental Engagement and Reporting Product will empower parents by dynamically engaging them in their child's progression at school, whilst creating new opportunities to communicate with teachers, other parents and the whole school learning community beyond the traditional constraints of the school day.
A personalised and familiar ‘social networking' style experience will provide parents with safe, anytime anyplace access to valuable information about their child including attendance, attainment, behaviour and progression data. Parents will benefit from being able to take a more proactive role in supporting their child's learning, and will have the ability to easily access and comment on examples of their child's school work and ‘ePortfolio' learning journal.
Schools will benefit from a comprehensive suite of fully customisable tools and features to support teaching, streamlined reporting and administration, with the ability to create an online dialogue with parents and other key stakeholders.
UniServity has developed its new Parent Product primarily to enable schools to meet and exceed the U.K. Government's Parental Engagement guidelines for providing online reporting from Secondary Schools by September 2010 and Primary Schools by September 2012. The Parent Product is fully integrated with the UniServity cLc (connected Learning communities) Learning Platform to further provide schools with a comprehensive 21st Century Teaching and Learning toolkit.
Wirral Local Authority (LA) has become the first Local Authority to announce they will be providing the Parent Product for their schools. Angela Allen, ICT Advisor, Wirral LA, stated "Our aim is to fully support our schools in meeting their requirements for parental reporting. Our commitment to the cLc Learning Platform for Wirral's schools and our relationship with UniServity has made the choice obvious."
Alan Wood, CEO, UniServity, added "We're delighted that Wirral Local Authority has chosen the new UniServity Parent Product for their schools. We see this new product as a natural but powerful extension to our core cLc Learning Platform solution. The role of the parent is critical in a child or young person's development and UniServity's Parent Product will empower parents like never before, to engage in and support their child's learning."
Full specifications, product literature and demonstration version will be available in September 2009. The Parent Product will be available from October 2009, with a premium version scheduled for launch at the BETT Show in London (UniServity Stand E125) in January 2010.
The announcement of the new Parent Product builds on UniServity's recent strategic partnership announcement with the Microsoft Live@edu educational service.
UniServity, the market-leading Learning Platform provider, announces the imminent release of an exciting new product for Parents which will transform how they access, engage and support their child's learning journey. UniServity's Parental Engagement and Reporting Product will empower parents by dynamically engaging them in their child's progression at school, whilst creating new opportunities to communicate with teachers, other parents and the whole school learning community beyond the traditional constraints of the school day.
A personalised and familiar ‘social networking' style experience will provide parents with safe, anytime anyplace access to valuable information about their child including attendance, attainment, behaviour and progression data. Parents will benefit from being able to take a more proactive role in supporting their child's learning, and will have the ability to easily access and comment on examples of their child's school work and ‘ePortfolio' learning journal.
Schools will benefit from a comprehensive suite of fully customisable tools and features to support teaching, streamlined reporting and administration, with the ability to create an online dialogue with parents and other key stakeholders.
UniServity has developed its new Parent Product primarily to enable schools to meet and exceed the U.K. Government's Parental Engagement guidelines for providing online reporting from Secondary Schools by September 2010 and Primary Schools by September 2012. The Parent Product is fully integrated with the UniServity cLc (connected Learning communities) Learning Platform to further provide schools with a comprehensive 21st Century Teaching and Learning toolkit.
Wirral Local Authority (LA) has become the first Local Authority to announce they will be providing the Parent Product for their schools. Angela Allen, ICT Advisor, Wirral LA, stated "Our aim is to fully support our schools in meeting their requirements for parental reporting. Our commitment to the cLc Learning Platform for Wirral's schools and our relationship with UniServity has made the choice obvious."
Alan Wood, CEO, UniServity, added "We're delighted that Wirral Local Authority has chosen the new UniServity Parent Product for their schools. We see this new product as a natural but powerful extension to our core cLc Learning Platform solution. The role of the parent is critical in a child or young person's development and UniServity's Parent Product will empower parents like never before, to engage in and support their child's learning."
Full specifications, product literature and demonstration version will be available in September 2009. The Parent Product will be available from October 2009, with a premium version scheduled for launch at the BETT Show in London (UniServity Stand E125) in January 2010.
The announcement of the new Parent Product builds on UniServity's recent strategic partnership announcement with the Microsoft Live@edu educational service.
UniServity cLc empowers Schools to be the first to respond to Obama's Global Learning Vision
The UniServity cLc Learning Platform empowers School Leaders in Harrisburg, the State Capitol of Pennsylvania, USA, to become the first School District in the USA to respond to President Obama’s 21st Century learning challenge by developing an online web 2.0 collaborative learning partnership with students in Egypt.
Harrisburg School District (HSD), is at the forefront of using technology to innovate and enrich the learning experience by providing learners with new 21st Century global collaborative learning opportunities. Harrisburg Mayor Stephen R. Reed has announced the new initiative connecting Harrisburg students with students in Cairo, Egypt, using the powerful social learning tools of the UniServity cLc (connected Learning communities) Learning Platform. Mayor Reed shared his announcement and educational vision to an audience of leading international educationalists and thought-leaders at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Washington D.C.; the largest Educational Event in the USA. Mayor Reed’s announcement is a dynamic response to U.S. President Barack Obama’s recent address at the UniServity of Cairo, when President Obama articulated his vision to connect American learners with foreign learners, stating, “I want students in Kansas working with students in Cairo.”
“Students today must be prepared to become part of a global community,” said Reed. “As Thomas Friedman has written, ‘the world is flat.’ It is no longer enough for our students to learn basic skills such as reading and writing. They also need to be able to apply them in new ways through new technological options, and more importantly, they need to be able to use 21st Century higher learning skills to work with others worldwide.”
“Harrisburg is the first city in the United States to implement the UniServity cLc city-wide,” said Reed. “Through the support of private and corporate donors and philanthropic foundations working with the Harrisburg Public School Foundation (HPSF), the implementation of this 21st Century learning platform has become possible, and will radically alter the way many of our City’s youth are learning.”
The first phase of the partnership will involve Harrisburg Schools developing an online arts, cultural, and social learning project facilitated by UniServity and Dr. Gerald W. Kohn, Superintendent of Harrisburg Schools, who commented, “This is only the beginning of the phenomenal learning opportunities that will be made available to our students through the implementation of the outcome-proven cLc.”
Dr. Lisa Paige, Executive Director of the HPSF added, “When we became aware of President Obama’s call to action, UniServity moved quickly to connect us with educational leaders in Cairo.” In just a couple of weeks the initial ideas for collaboration between US and Egyptian Schools have become a reality. Dr. Nermien Ismail, Administrator, The American International American School in Cairo has confirmed the School’s participation in the partnership and has flown to Washington DC to meet Harrisburg School leaders and members of the UniServity Educational team during the NECC event.
Alan Wood, CEO, UniServity, added, “UniServity is very proud to welcome both Harrisburg and Cairo schools into the growing cLc social learning community of circa. 1.5 million learners and teachers in 21 countries around the world. Harrisburg and Cairo School Leaders share our vision of transforming the learning experience and extending learning opportunities for all learners. In addition, I’d like to pay tribute to the Harrisburg Public Schools Foundation and the generosity and support of their donors and philanthropic foundations who have given learners in their community a new world of authentic and enriching learning opportunities beyond the traditional walls of the classroom.”
About UniServity:
Founded in the U.K. in 1999, UniServity is the global leader in next generation Web 2.0 learning. UniServity cLc (connected Learning communities) Learning Platform provides a secure social learning environment and tools to enhance learning, collaboration, communication and administration.
The cLc serves as a container for favourite Web 2.0 applications, creating safe spaces to empower students and teachers; enabling co-construction; local and global collaboration; authentic learning and formative assessment. The cLc serves circa. 2 million learners and teachers across 21 countries. The cLc places schools in a secure, contained, systemised, pedagogically-sound, sustainable 21st century learning framework. UniServity has offices in the UK, USA, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Harrisburg School District (HSD), is at the forefront of using technology to innovate and enrich the learning experience by providing learners with new 21st Century global collaborative learning opportunities. Harrisburg Mayor Stephen R. Reed has announced the new initiative connecting Harrisburg students with students in Cairo, Egypt, using the powerful social learning tools of the UniServity cLc (connected Learning communities) Learning Platform. Mayor Reed shared his announcement and educational vision to an audience of leading international educationalists and thought-leaders at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Washington D.C.; the largest Educational Event in the USA. Mayor Reed’s announcement is a dynamic response to U.S. President Barack Obama’s recent address at the UniServity of Cairo, when President Obama articulated his vision to connect American learners with foreign learners, stating, “I want students in Kansas working with students in Cairo.”
“Students today must be prepared to become part of a global community,” said Reed. “As Thomas Friedman has written, ‘the world is flat.’ It is no longer enough for our students to learn basic skills such as reading and writing. They also need to be able to apply them in new ways through new technological options, and more importantly, they need to be able to use 21st Century higher learning skills to work with others worldwide.”
“Harrisburg is the first city in the United States to implement the UniServity cLc city-wide,” said Reed. “Through the support of private and corporate donors and philanthropic foundations working with the Harrisburg Public School Foundation (HPSF), the implementation of this 21st Century learning platform has become possible, and will radically alter the way many of our City’s youth are learning.”
The first phase of the partnership will involve Harrisburg Schools developing an online arts, cultural, and social learning project facilitated by UniServity and Dr. Gerald W. Kohn, Superintendent of Harrisburg Schools, who commented, “This is only the beginning of the phenomenal learning opportunities that will be made available to our students through the implementation of the outcome-proven cLc.”
Dr. Lisa Paige, Executive Director of the HPSF added, “When we became aware of President Obama’s call to action, UniServity moved quickly to connect us with educational leaders in Cairo.” In just a couple of weeks the initial ideas for collaboration between US and Egyptian Schools have become a reality. Dr. Nermien Ismail, Administrator, The American International American School in Cairo has confirmed the School’s participation in the partnership and has flown to Washington DC to meet Harrisburg School leaders and members of the UniServity Educational team during the NECC event.
Alan Wood, CEO, UniServity, added, “UniServity is very proud to welcome both Harrisburg and Cairo schools into the growing cLc social learning community of circa. 1.5 million learners and teachers in 21 countries around the world. Harrisburg and Cairo School Leaders share our vision of transforming the learning experience and extending learning opportunities for all learners. In addition, I’d like to pay tribute to the Harrisburg Public Schools Foundation and the generosity and support of their donors and philanthropic foundations who have given learners in their community a new world of authentic and enriching learning opportunities beyond the traditional walls of the classroom.”
About UniServity:
Founded in the U.K. in 1999, UniServity is the global leader in next generation Web 2.0 learning. UniServity cLc (connected Learning communities) Learning Platform provides a secure social learning environment and tools to enhance learning, collaboration, communication and administration.
The cLc serves as a container for favourite Web 2.0 applications, creating safe spaces to empower students and teachers; enabling co-construction; local and global collaboration; authentic learning and formative assessment. The cLc serves circa. 2 million learners and teachers across 21 countries. The cLc places schools in a secure, contained, systemised, pedagogically-sound, sustainable 21st century learning framework. UniServity has offices in the UK, USA, Hong Kong and Singapore.
UniServity Announces Strategic Partnership with Microsoft
Dynamic Educational Partnership delivers a new world of collaborative learning opportunities with an integrated 21st Century learning solution for c.1.5 million learners and teachers in 21 countries
UniServity, the leading global Learning Platform provider, announces a strategic partnership with Microsoft. The integration with Microsoft Live@edu, will provide c. 1.5 million learners and their teachers globally with a dynamic and integrated e-Learning solution to support their learning and collaboration within the secure 21st Century learning environment of the UniServity cLc (connected Learning communities) Learning Platform.
The new partnership combines the educational expertise and learning vision of UniServity and its award-winning online social learning platform, the UniServity cLc, with the technical expertise and scale of Microsoft and its Live@edu service to create a powerful learning environment and toolkit for learners and teachers to co-construct, collaborate, communicate and develop their skills and improve educational outcomes.
Steve Beswick, Head of Education, Microsoft UK commented “Microsoft is very excited to be working with UniServity to bring the most powerful and appropriate social media learning tools to a worldwide educational audience. UniServity has rapidly built a very large, secure, global community of students, teachers and increasingly, parents that is unrivalled in the global education sector. Microsoft is keen to help this community continue to utilise powerful collaborative tools to achieve important educational outcomes. Microsoft wants to help people around the world realise their full potential; and UniServity’s global educational community is a great fit.”
Alan Wood, CEO, UniServity, added “UniServity’s unique approach to supporting the improvement of learning and teaching focuses on giving learners and teachers the best, most appropriate and easy-to-use tools to co-construct their own learning and collaborate with a diverse range of people who can support their learning – hence a ‘social learning’ platform. Our partnership with Microsoft will enable us to take this offering to a new level of value for our customers offering even greater opportunity to blur the boundaries between formal and informal learning.”
The first phase of the partnership will integrate the powerful social learning tools within the cLc Learning Platform with Microsoft’s Windows Live infrastructure and Live@edu service. The cLc learning community will benefit from Microsoft’s advanced suite of online communication and collaboration tools including Outlook Live hosted email and calendaring, SkyDrive online storage, Office Live Workspace document sharing and collaboration plus mobile alerts, instant messaging, videoconferencing, mobile access and address books, all accessible on a range of devices.
The second phase of the partnership will look to combine UniServity’s expertise in connected learning communities with Microsoft technical capabilities and scale to provide a connected 21st century educational ecosystem that will encompass every aspect of learning both in the classroom and at home.
For UniServity, the partnership supports the company’s vision of creating the world’s largest connected learning community and builds on global educational partnerships with Singtel in Singapore, The Chinese Government’s Anhui Publishing Group (APG) in China and Capita SIMS in the UK. In the past year the cLc Learning Platform has become the global leader in 21st Century Learning Platforms with thousands of learners from the USA, Germany, Singapore, China and Australia joining the cLc learning community and creating new and innovative learning experiences.
In the UK, UniServity is established as the market leader on the BECTA Learning Platform Framework, having been awarded over 40% of all Local Authority Learning Platform contracts since the Framework was launched in 2007. www.uniservity.com
About UniServity:
Founded in the U.K. in 1999, UniServity is the global leader in next generation Web 2.0 learning. UniServity cLc (connected Learning communities) Learning Platform provides a secure social learning environment and tools to enhance learning, collaboration, communication, administration and support parental engagement. The cLc serves as a container for favourite Web 2.0 applications, creating safe spaces to empower students and teachers; enabling co-construction; local and global collaboration; authentic learning and formative assessment. The cLc serves circa. 1.5 million learners and teachers across 21 countries The cLc places schools in a secure, contained, systemised, pedagogically-sound, sustainable 21st century learning framework. UniServity has offices in the UK, USA, Hong Kong and Singapore.
UniServity, the leading global Learning Platform provider, announces a strategic partnership with Microsoft. The integration with Microsoft Live@edu, will provide c. 1.5 million learners and their teachers globally with a dynamic and integrated e-Learning solution to support their learning and collaboration within the secure 21st Century learning environment of the UniServity cLc (connected Learning communities) Learning Platform.
The new partnership combines the educational expertise and learning vision of UniServity and its award-winning online social learning platform, the UniServity cLc, with the technical expertise and scale of Microsoft and its Live@edu service to create a powerful learning environment and toolkit for learners and teachers to co-construct, collaborate, communicate and develop their skills and improve educational outcomes.
Steve Beswick, Head of Education, Microsoft UK commented “Microsoft is very excited to be working with UniServity to bring the most powerful and appropriate social media learning tools to a worldwide educational audience. UniServity has rapidly built a very large, secure, global community of students, teachers and increasingly, parents that is unrivalled in the global education sector. Microsoft is keen to help this community continue to utilise powerful collaborative tools to achieve important educational outcomes. Microsoft wants to help people around the world realise their full potential; and UniServity’s global educational community is a great fit.”
Alan Wood, CEO, UniServity, added “UniServity’s unique approach to supporting the improvement of learning and teaching focuses on giving learners and teachers the best, most appropriate and easy-to-use tools to co-construct their own learning and collaborate with a diverse range of people who can support their learning – hence a ‘social learning’ platform. Our partnership with Microsoft will enable us to take this offering to a new level of value for our customers offering even greater opportunity to blur the boundaries between formal and informal learning.”
The first phase of the partnership will integrate the powerful social learning tools within the cLc Learning Platform with Microsoft’s Windows Live infrastructure and Live@edu service. The cLc learning community will benefit from Microsoft’s advanced suite of online communication and collaboration tools including Outlook Live hosted email and calendaring, SkyDrive online storage, Office Live Workspace document sharing and collaboration plus mobile alerts, instant messaging, videoconferencing, mobile access and address books, all accessible on a range of devices.
The second phase of the partnership will look to combine UniServity’s expertise in connected learning communities with Microsoft technical capabilities and scale to provide a connected 21st century educational ecosystem that will encompass every aspect of learning both in the classroom and at home.
For UniServity, the partnership supports the company’s vision of creating the world’s largest connected learning community and builds on global educational partnerships with Singtel in Singapore, The Chinese Government’s Anhui Publishing Group (APG) in China and Capita SIMS in the UK. In the past year the cLc Learning Platform has become the global leader in 21st Century Learning Platforms with thousands of learners from the USA, Germany, Singapore, China and Australia joining the cLc learning community and creating new and innovative learning experiences.
In the UK, UniServity is established as the market leader on the BECTA Learning Platform Framework, having been awarded over 40% of all Local Authority Learning Platform contracts since the Framework was launched in 2007. www.uniservity.com
About UniServity:
Founded in the U.K. in 1999, UniServity is the global leader in next generation Web 2.0 learning. UniServity cLc (connected Learning communities) Learning Platform provides a secure social learning environment and tools to enhance learning, collaboration, communication, administration and support parental engagement. The cLc serves as a container for favourite Web 2.0 applications, creating safe spaces to empower students and teachers; enabling co-construction; local and global collaboration; authentic learning and formative assessment. The cLc serves circa. 1.5 million learners and teachers across 21 countries The cLc places schools in a secure, contained, systemised, pedagogically-sound, sustainable 21st century learning framework. UniServity has offices in the UK, USA, Hong Kong and Singapore.