Case Studies

We have worked with multiple partners on a national scale for various learning system implementations. The case studies below show some of the advanced learning implementations we've completed.

Mobile Learning in Universities

Client: Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings (ALPS).

Challenge: To create a service platform allowing tutors to send assessments and supporting materials to the mobile devices of Health and Social Care students on work-based practice. The ALPS partners are the Health and Social Care faculties of Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Leeds Metropolitan and York St John Universities, as well as the NHS Yorkshire and the Humber. The other bodies involved are T-Mobile, ecommnet and MyKnowledgeMap.

The five universities involved in the ALPS project were using different VLEs, but they all required access to the same template assessment package. ALPS asked MyKnowledgeMap to provide a tool which would allow the tutors to create and package the assessments for delivery to the devices.

Solution: The service platform created for the ALPS project, based on our Multi-Port system, allowed tutors to send assessments and supporting materials to mobile devices which the students used while on work-based practice. Tutors across all five institutions could create tailor-made assessments using a wide range of question types including multiple choice, fill in the gaps, and free text questions.

The assessments could then be uploaded to Compendle and packaged with supporting materials such as additional instructions or extra reading. The students could then complete the assessments whilst at work and submit their answers for marking and feedback.

Award-winning: The ALPS project won the Innovation Award in the Tertiary, FE & HE category at the 2009 Handheld Learning Awards. The event has become the largest of its kind. It brings together thought leaders, innovators, practitioners, developers, policy and decision makers from the education, technology and entertainment sectors. The ALPS project also won the Techworld Mobility Project of the Year 2008.

Mobile Learning in FE Colleges

Client: MoLeNET (The Mobile Learning Network), the UK's largest and most diverse implementation of mobile learning.

Challenge: To introduce mobile learning into all FE colleges in the UK.

Solution: The MoLeNET system, built with Multi-Port providing the core architecture, is designed to facilitate the gathering of evidence and learning experience in the college environment. The system incorporates an assessment creation tool, a blogging system for learners and tutors, the competency framework mapper, and the platform for setting assessment packages which students can complete using their mobile devices.

It allows tutors to create assessments based around core competencies and send them to groups of students or individuals. They can set the assessment and send it either immediately or at a designated time.

The system is designed to offer the learner flexibility in how they access MoLeNET so this can be done either through a PC or any kind of mobile device: smartphones, PDAs, iPods handheld gaming devices (e.g. Sony PSP, Nintendo DS), or netbooks.

All colleges on the system can share information with each other. For example, one course tutor on the system may want to share their competency framework with the same course at another college.

MoLeNET are currently piloting the system in preparation for rolling it out to a variety of courses.

Mobile-friendly Learning for Doctors

Client: NICE (the National Institute for Health and clinical Excellence) and the BMJ (British Medical Journal).

Challenge: To transform existing learning materials into a format that doctors can use on the move.

Solution: With a team from the University of Leeds, MyKnowledgeMap helped NICE and the BMJ to transform their existing learning materials into a mobile-friendly web format.

The learning uses e-learning standards in an innovative way, moving the learning player that normally sits in a user's browser back onto our web server, to ensure that they can be accessed easily by all kinds of small-screened devices.