Assessment & Evidence Gathering
GLOW
GLOW - Co-Create
Co-Create is a pioneering new initiative to bring arts education resources online for schools across Scotland through Glow. The project has been set up to explore Glow’s potential to support innovative approaches to learning and teaching through the arts.
Through Co-Create, selected Scottish Arts Council funded arts organisations will be supported to deliver a number of ambitious demonstration projects which will trial new ways of learning and teaching.
Click on Video above or link below to find out more:
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/glowscotland/sharingpractice/cocreate.asp
How to use the NHS
How to use the NHS - Patient Experiences
Having embarked on a new phase of patient centred care the NHS increasingly requires technology and facilities to accommodate all of its patients across the UK. VOXUR’s non-discriminatory multi-lingual capabilities allow patients of 17 different languages and varying levels of literacy to share their NHS experience.
Acknowledging that Britain’s health service aims to give citizens a sense of security so that they “feel more valued and better treated” it is imperative that service users are not disadvantaged nor their health compromised due to issues with communication.
Patients can confide in VOXUR from the comfort of their own surroundings, thus cataloguing their genuine journey of care, free from external influence.
A target driven NHS cannot function effectively without the capacity to chart patient progress. Showcasing “evidence based care that is equitable across the world” physiotherapists, speech and language therapists and a host of other professionals have audio and visual proof of patient journeys on the road to recovery.
Take a look at the site here: http://www.howtousethenhs.com/
JISC CETIS
JISC CETIS
Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards, provides advice to the UK Higher and Post-16 Education sectors on educational technology and standards. Their website brings together educational technology news, comment and analysis, as well as information on community events. VOXUR helps JISC capture contributions to current debates and future thinking in this rapidly growing and changing field.
Mearns Community School Network - Aberdeenshire Council
Mearns Community School Network - Aberdeenshire Council - Community Regeneration
Mearns Community School Network used VOXUR to interview 263 pupils to understand what young people thought about their local community, more specifically about the different aspects of life in the Mearns: leisure & transport facilities, youth information & work and safety in their area.
The result was a 123 page pdf document and a 9 minute video which provided the human factor and evidence of work undertaken to all of the statistics listed.
Recruitment
Recruitment
Recruitment is a key part of any organisation. With the current economic climate the number of applicants has risen significantly, with a wealth of paper based CV’s coming through the door for available vacancies.
55 Degrees & VOXUR continue to expand their team due to significant growth. Within the VOXUR team we have recently recruited 2 new Account Managers and personality is key within this role: skills can be taught, personality is your own.
The amount of time, effort, resource and organisation to sift through a wealth of paper based CV’s and meet selected candidates was something the existing VOXUR team had to spend time on, but simply could not afford… in stepped VOXUR!
Within this application process we were able to invite a wealth of applicants for initial interviews, briefly meet with them, allow VOXUR to carry out the initial interview and capture their personality to allow internal work to continue.
With a normal interview process how do you remember who you have met and in what order? Who’s personality really stood out? How do you now get line managers and company directors whose time is precious to buy into the candidate and show they are a fit within the organisation without calling all candidates back…….visual CV profiles using VOXUR. Upon second interview Directors had an idea of who this individual was, reducing their time spent interviewing and allowing the selection process to be well resourced and effective.
VOXUR had simplified the whole recruitment process, take at a look at the case study to find out what the candidates thought…
Routes to Success
Routes to Success
Trying to navigate your way through the different qualifications you can study at school, college and university can sometimes be a confusing and daunting undertaking. School and Beyond shows the different routes people can take through education and how they link together.
VOXUR was used to outline each opportunity for studying at school, college and university. An interactive path was laid out for each qualification and where it could lead to. For each qualification a VOXUR video illustrates what each of the courses are, what qualities you need to study them, the fun parts of the course and what this could lead to for further study.
Follow the journeys of 10 people who have chosen very different routes and get an insight from the Tutors teaching the courses by clicking on: http://www.routes2success.org.uk/school_and_beyond
Scotland’s Learning Partnership
Scotland’s Learning Partnership
LIFELONG LEARNING: A GLOBAL COMMUNITY
From Canada to the Philippines to citizens of Scottish heritage VOXUR recorded the personal narratives of attendants at an Adult Learning Conference entitled “A Time for Learning: Paving the Way to CONFINTEA VI”. The event brought together a ‘global community’ of mature learners to discuss the future of adult learning.
VOXUR upends erstwhile barriers caused by language, literacy levels. Addressing dyslexia and other obstacles to learning VOXUR poses questions to candidates in a lively visual format or even in their native tongue.
United in their conviction that “Everybody has the right to an education” a nascent hope resurfaces in many responses that “Comment and opinion be expressed more by the adult learning community”.
The technology trialled at this conference points to the future of lifelong learning- personalised, egalitarian and accessible technology. VOXUR; a voice for all gives people the dignity of a private recording scenario free from public scrutiny.
Scottish Government - Equally Well
Scottish Government - Equally Well Initiative
The Scottish Government’s Equally Well project is tasked with tackling the inequalities in health that will otherwise prevent Scotland from achieving the Government’s overall purpose of sustainable economic growth, supported by increased healthy life expectancy.
A key part of this is engaging with and listening to people from the poorest & most excluded sections of society. Equally Well are using VOXUR as their engagement tool. VOXUR uses video to ask people questions and allows them to easily answer in their own words, regardless of literacy or language. VOXUR’s powerful video management then allows the Project’s Test Sites to easily order testimony & feedback and to publish edits to web and rich media reports.
In this way, VOXUR is not only affording Equally Well insight into the barriers to change, it begins the process of empowerment for the individuals consulted.
Just last week VOXUR was used to report back to the Ministerial Task Force a 12 month review of the Equally Well implementation to date. Please click on the link below to view:
Scottish Qualification Authorities
Scottish Qualification Authorities
Microsoft and the Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) required a methodology to deliver an innovative teacher project though Partners in Leaning (PIL).
We used EMIT, the precursor of VOXUR, to capture teacher and pupils experiences throughout 10 Education Authorities, in an engaging manner with rich media output.
