Woodwing, a Dutch multinational software company, has acquired a minority share in SOWISO. Needless to say, we are very happy with this investment. Not only do we now have the resources to accelerate, both technically and commercially, WoodWing is also …
Last saturday the leading Dutch Financial Newspaper (Het Financieel Dagblad) published a featured article on SOWISO. The main theme was innovation, which of course suits a company like SOWISO. The complete article can be read here and here (Dutch only. 2 pdf documents)
A lot is going on in the Netherlands when it comes to arithmetic education. From next year on it will be a new compulsory subject on the national exams in high schools and vocational training. The Dutch government pointed out …
On numerous accounts we’ve been asked how our platform can be integrated in existing learning environments, like Blackboard and Moodle. This is a very relevant question, because most of our clients already use an LMS of some kind and they are …
I’m actually not a big fan of terms like ‘2.0’ or ‘3.0’ that are used to label internet and related products. Not only haven’t we ever see a ‘web 2.1’, these terms are used and misused in marketing or placement …
SOWISO was present at the famous internet conference LeWeb Paris this week. Together with our friends of ICT Labs we shared a stand in one of the exhibition halls. Being part of this experience was interesting, although I think I will not find …
Last week we were at Slush in Helsinki. Slush is a two day start-up conference aimed at the best tech talent from Northern Europe and Russia. An event SOWISO could not miss. The conference consisted of parallel programs. There was a …
Learning analytics is a hot issue in education these days. You can educate all you want, in any way you want, but if you cannot measure the corresponding output (change) you have no idea if the process is effective and …
Last week I had the honor of joining the EIT (see blog post from October 31st) stakeholders conference in Larnaca, Cyprus. The main theme of the conference was: “addressing societal challenges through the EIT”. The current EIT infrastructure consists of three KIC’s (Knowledge and Innovation Communities, pronounced as ‘kick’, …
Some great news: the Amsterdam university of Applied sciences (Hogeschool van Amsterdam –HvA-) will be using our e-learning platform for one of their courses in the very near future. This is good news for our company as we have a …
