About AmplifyFE

AmplifyFE launched in October 2020 and already connects over 1300 professionals in Further Education and Vocational Education, amplifying communities of practice for digital learning, teaching and assessment. The AmplifyFE Community Space works across the whole Further Education and Training sector in its widest terms engaging with vocational educators and those who support them, providing a strong networking community for them to share, collaborate and learn.

Website: amplifyfe.alt.ac.uk

Twitter: @AmplifyFE

Association for Learning Technology

The Association for Learning Technology is the leading professional body for Learning Technology in the UK. Supporting a collaborative community for individuals and organisations from all sectors including Further and Higher Education and industry and provide professional recognition and development. Membership is open to all with a professional interest in using digital technologies for learning, teaching and assessment.

Our overall charitable objective is “to advance education through increasing, exploring and disseminating knowledge in the field of Learning Technology for the benefit of the general public”. Our core activities are focused on membership services that help us achieve our strategic aims and generate the majority of ALT’s income as an independent charity.

Website: www.alt.ac.uk/

Twitter: @A_L_T

Auga Technologies T/A Vevox

Vevox, the number one rated polling and Q&A platform for student engagement. With over 1500 reviews across Trustpilot, G2, and Capterra, Vevox helps educators gain instant student feedback, test knowledge, increase participation and above all, give every student a voice.

Vevox is used in 150+ countries by over 1500 businesses and educational institutions, winner of the 2018 Bett Award for higher education and is the highest independently rated SRS system on the market.

Easily integrable with your classroom tech, including Microsoft Teams, Zoom, PowerPoint and other technologies, Vevox offers a complete solution to running unmissable online, in-person and hybrid classes.

Website: www.vevox.com/

Twitter: @vevoxapp

Better Examinations

BetterExaminations is a modern end-to-end exam management and eAssessment platform designed for the unique needs of Higher Education.

Through an extremely easy to use cloud-based platform, you can deliver exams and assessments to students anywhere in the world. With over 50 question types, a comprehensive range of subjects can be examined using a wide range of devices. For the institution, the platform provides comprehensive exam management, marking and reporting features including support for exam workflow, external examiner support, feedback / marking and features to help you manage traditional paper based exams.

Website: www.betterexaminations.com

Twitter: @BetterExams_

CANVAS LMS by Instructure

The Canvas Learning Management Platform is developed and fully supported by Instructure, a software as a service (SaaS) technology company dedicated to education and learning.Canvas delivers an open, extensible learning ecosystem that allows institutions to build a digital learning environment that meets the unique challenges they face. Today we’re the #1 used LMS. Voted #1 by both students and educators. With the highest retention rate, and top-ranked implementation services and Support.The Canvas LMS is open, customisable, reliable, mobile, time-saving and born in the cloud. This is why it continues to be the fastest-growing LMS in the world.

Website: www.instructure.com/

Twitter: @Canvas_by_Inst

Crowdmark

Crowdmark is a grading and assessment solution that enables educators to grade paper-based and digital exams and assignments 3× faster than traditional workflows while leaving richer feedback for students.

Website: crowdmark.com/

Twitter: @Crowdmark

Edina – Developing Digital Fluency

There has been a big shift in the digital skills and capabilities that we need to develop and recognise in both students and staff: from digital citizenship to critical data literacy and ethical considerations, what does it mean to develop digital fluency?

About Edina

EDINA are specialists in developing and delivering digital products including large-scale online services, mobile apps, and digital tools for education. Our expertise includes geospatial and satellite data, computational learning, text, and data mining, e-preservation, and machine learning.We have over twenty years of experience and a proven track record of collaborating on innovative projects and service delivery across the full digital lifecycle; employing an agile, customer-centric approach, to design, develop, test and deploy scalable digital solutions.

Website: edina.ac.uk/

Twitter: @EDINA_Noteable

Jisc

Jisc is the UK digital, data and technology agency focused on tertiary education and research and innovation. We are a not-for-profit organisation and believe education and research improves lives and that technology improves education and research. We provide managed and brokered products and services, enhanced with expertise and intelligence to inspire and enable digital transformation. Our vision is for the UK to be world leaders in technology for education and research.

Website: www.jisc.ac.uk/

Twitter: @Jisc

Kaltura

Kaltura powers real-time, live and on-demand video for virtual and in-person learning. Founded in 2006 and serving more than 700 educational institutions globally, including KCL, Edinburgh, Durham, Nottingham, and Sheffield, its products include virtual classroom, LMS video, video portal, lecture capture, video messaging, virtual event platform, and more.

Universities choose Kaltura’s technology to create engaging, personalised, and accessible experiences inside and outside the classroom. This helps them drive interaction, build community, boost creativity, extend reach, and improve learning outcomes.

Website: kaltura.com

Twitter: @Kaltura

McGraw Hill

McGraw Hill is a global pioneer in educational content, assessment, training, and platform innovation; and is one of the world’s largest educational companies, with products and services in more than 60 languages and 130 countries.

Website: www.mheducation.co.uk/

Twitter: @mhe_emea

Open LMS

Open LMS leverages open-source software to deliver an effective and engaging online learning experience. As the largest commercial provider of hosting and support services for the open-source Moodle™ learning platform, we help organizations and institutions deliver the best learning experiences without complexities.

Website: www.openlms.net/

Twitter: @openLMSteam

Proprep – Boost

Proprep’s mission is to boost students’ success by improving learning outcomes and confidence in foundational STEM topics. With award winning technology and over a decade of experience, Proprep is committed to making STEM inclusive, accessible, and enjoyable for all learners. Boost by Proprep allows faculty to create course materials and study aids from curated STEM tutorials and practice problems, and to produce their own customised video-based course materials. Boost supports blended learning across the university by providing quality content and flexible customization features. The platform’s library consists of more than 12,000 video tutorials and practice exercises.

Website: boost.proprep.com/

Rapidmooc

Rapidmooc designs and markets all-in-one video studios. All the models of the range are compact, offer the same features, and are devices combining both the video recording hardware and the capture processing software. The Rapidmooc solution provides the possibility to create as many professional quality videos as you want, independently, in minutes, at cost, and within everyone’s reach. More than 400 universities, companies, and institutions use these studios, which can be fully customized with the organization’s colors. Whether they are installed in a dedicated recording room, or made available in different environments thanks to the mobile format, Rapidmooc studios meet multiple needs.

Website: rapidmooc.com/

Twitter: @rapidmooc

Talis

Talis Elevate builds collaborative conversation directly into resources used in teaching, be it documents, media, images, or copyright cleared content. Underpinning all of this, Talis Elevate provides new levels of analytical insight for academics, helping them make informed decisions around their teaching practice Visit https://talis.com/talis-elevate/ to find out more.

Website: Talis.com

Twitter: @talis

Turnitin

Turnitin is a global company dedicated to ensuring the integrity of education and meaningfully improving learning outcomes. For more than 20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Turnitin products are used by educational institutions and certification and licensing programs to uphold integrity and increase learning performance, and by students and professionals to do their best, original work.

Website: www.turnitin.com/

Twitter: @Turnitin

ThingLink

ThingLink provides an easy-to-use image and video augmentation and in-image data-collection solution for business and education. Over 8 million content creators including eLearning professionals, editorial teams, educators, and students use ThingLink to create interactive visuals such as infographics, maps, campus tours, brochures, and presentations for online communication and learning. Interactive elements on images and virtual tours improve engagement, time spent and learning results.ThingLink interactive media can be viewed on desktop, mobile, VR headsets and shared immersive learning spaces.

Website: thinglink.com

Twitter: @thinglink_edu

UNIwise

UNIwise supports educational institutions to take advantage of the power of digital assessment. WISEflow, our digital assessment platform, manages the complete assessment and feedback lifecycle across a wide range of assessment types and formats. While working in HE, our founders identified the need for digital assessment, using their experience in research & management to develop WISEflow as a platform that meets both teaching & learning and administrative needs. As a result, WISEflow helps universities to streamline the assessment process, ensure consistency, improve feedback and raise student satisfaction. Our expertise is now trusted by more than 100 institutions across Europe to improve their students’ learning and transform education.

Website: www.uniwise.co.uk/

Twitter: @UNIwiseDK

FeedbackFruits 

FeedbackFruits is an edtech company based in Amsterdam, whose mission is to help foster a generation of critical and empathic thinkers through pedagogical innovation. Working together with over100 leading universities, such as Imperial College London, Cornell University, and Deakin University,FeedbackFruits co-creates pedagogical tooling so teachers can implement world-class learning experiences with 1% of the original workload. This VLE-integrated tool suite encompasses a wide range of learning activities from self & peer assessment to team-based learning. From its partnership with Microsoft to becoming a winner at the Reimagine Education Awards, FeedbackFruits has been fulfilling its mission to drive pedagogical innovation.

Website: feedbackfruits.com

Twitter: @FeedbackFruits

Anthology

Anthology offers the largest EdTech ecosystem on a global scale, supporting over 150 million users in 80 countries. The company’s mission is to provide dynamic, data-informed experiences to the global education community so that learners and educators can achieve their goals.

Website: www.anthology.com/en-emea

Twitter: @AnthologyEMEA

Class Technologies Inc.

The best-in-class digital live learning experience

Founded by education software pioneer Michael Chasen, Class makes online learning feel as natural as face-to-face lessons. Our secure platform gives educators all the tools they need to manage their classroom, run immersive lessons and help every learner feel included and inspired. Arrange a demo at class.com

Website: class.com

Twitter: @WeAreClassTech

Brickfield Education Labs

Brickfield Education Labs offers a comprehensive Accessibility Toolkit for Moodle to improve the accessibility of your Moodle course content. The Toolkit finds, fixes and futureproofs client content on Moodle courses, through automating the process of accessibility auditing and remediation of course content. It provides a deep integration for the creation of accessible file formats.

Website: www.brickfield.ie

Twitter: @brickfieldlabs