Motivating students to engage in their individual education journey
12th August 2020 -A recent TeacherTapp survey of teachers has suggested that engagement and motivation in general have perhaps been our greatest challenge through the recent period of remote learning. The evidence from the survey? Teachers estimated that students were spending on average two hours per day on learning. There are of course many reasons that contributed to this - an obvious lack of structure, a lack of peer support, encouragement or challenge, a lack of parental support, plus the radical change in lifestyle that lock down brought us all. But while some students have struggled with engagement and motivation, others have thrived with new found independence and autonomy by having the flexibility in what and how they learn and the ability to focus on their own motivations.
Continue ReadingHow can technology support personalized learning?
12th August 2020 -Originally published on besa, August 2020.
As thousands of learners get ready to return to their schools and colleges, now is a good time for educational institutions to pause and reflect on the successes associated with online learning. As students and educators rapidly took to remote learning over the past few months, it has enabled many to gain a valuable insight into the benefits of online platforms and digital learning tools. And whilst remote learning environments don’t come without challenges, appreciation in the value of online learning has led to many questioning ‘what does the future of education look like?’
Continue ReadingHow to onboard remote employees
12th August 2020 -We’ve recently had eight new people join the Texthelp team whilst we’ve been working from home, and we’ve another three on the way over the coming weeks. As our HR team works hard to onboard our new colleagues remotely, we thought we would share their experiences with you, to bring you some useful insight. So, we grabbed a virtual chat over some coffee with one of our HR Officers, Andrew McDermott...
Continue Reading7 remote employee engagement ideas
12th August 2020 -As the Texthelp offices sit empty and quiet, missing the warmth and friendliness of our Texthelpers, the virtual world has gained 180 glowing smiles, determined to keep our happy harmony in tune.
Since working from home, we’ve felt encouragement from one another to stay in touch and engaged. Initiatives set up by our leaders work alongside those set up by our thoughtful colleagues. Very naturally, within a very short space of time, we saw our calendars filling up with small pockets of normality, that would help us to stay calm and connected over the course of time to come.
To help remote teams around the world, we thought we would share with you what we’re doing at Texthelp, to spark some ideas for employee engagement in your own organisation...
Continue ReadingMaking essential digital communications inclusive & accessible
12th August 2020 -Did you know that the average reading age of someone in the UK is just 9 years old? That 67 million people in America speak English as a second language? That across the world, 285 million people are living with sight loss and visual impairments? And that 1 in 7 people are neurodiverse?
Continue ReadingBeyond the website: creating accessible experiences
11th August 2020 -In this guest blog, Jean Downey, Head of Digital and Creative Services at Ofcom, shares some insight into how to create accessible experiences, with the entire customer journey in mind.
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