After a successful first year, SOWISO and De Boeck signed a contract for the minimum period of 4 years! De Boeck is one of the main educational publishers in Belgium. Based on the SOWISO e-learning platform, they developed a completely …
Last October SOWISO was on its first roadshow in South-East Asia. Apart from Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Jakarta, the focus of this trip was Singapore, for a variety of reasons. The most obvious oneis that Singapore is very developed and Western, …
In the past years, we were frequently confronted with the question whether our tools are QTI (Question & Test Interoperability) compliant. The short and simple answer is ”no!” and let me tell you why. QTI is a standard from the IMS that tries …
As of yesterday we moved to an office with double the office space of our old one! We’re still located in the Matrix II building of the Science Park 400 Amsterdam; we went from the 3rd floor to the ground …
Today the kick-off meeting of the Learning Analytics project COACH took place at the Science Park in Amsterdam. The goal of the project, co-funded by SURF in their Learning Analytics program, is to find out how student results can be positively influenced by …
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 …
