SOWISO Blog

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 …

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 …