On May 25th 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation will come into full swing in the European Union as law, focused on individual privacy and access/use of personal information of European Union citizens. International schools across the globe will be affected by the new regulations in various ways. Here, John Mikton offers a review of the...

Many of us experience the occasional wi-fi outage or find our internet connection has slowed to a crawl, and usually it’s a minor and temporary inconvenience. However, if your school is dependent on a reliable connection for your e-learning platform to function it’s an altogether more serious issue. For many international schools there are factors...

The British International School Awards are to be held next January at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London’s Covent Garden. The awards celebrate innovation in strategic, financial and educational projects within British international schools. Organised by British International Schools magazine with the support of ISC Research, they celebrate the groundbreaking work which is being done by schools...

The most amazing – and challenging – thing about the human brain is that every single one is different. No two brains are exactly the same. Why challenging? Well, from a teacher’s point of view, you have one, two, possibly three dozen brains all taking in the information you provide in every class. And the...

During October and November this year we spent a month travelling around East Asia to meet with clients and attend a variety of e-learning events in the region, returning to the UK at the end of November. It would be impossible to mention everything in a single blog post, but we thought we’d share some...

A recent global study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has suggested that schools’ investment in classroom technology may not have the positive effect on results that many institutions had hoped for. The report concluded that education systems which had invested in technology in the classroom on a large scale had not seen...

Over the past 15 or 20 years, we’ve watched as the Internet has made the world a smaller place. There’s no reason to have to wait days or weeks for information or correspondence. In fact – there’s no reason to have to wait minutes any longer. The world wide web has provided us with the...

Over the coming weeks and months we’re fortunate enough to be publishing a series of guest blog posts by a number of industry experts. Our first post in the series is written by Brad Philpot, founder and owner of Philpot Education, a licensed provider of worldwide IB teacher training.  I was introduced to Moodle in 2005, when I...

On 9th April we headed to Brussels for the 2015 ECIS Leadership Conference, coinciding with ECIS’ Golden Jubilee year. We were pleased to find a good deal of interest in Titus Learning Platform and ideas on bespoke development. One area we spoke about with several groups of visitors was the concept of dynamically linking content...

At the end of March we travelled to the 2015 ECIS conference hosted by the Bavarian International School in Munich. We were delighted to be asked to give two presentations, on boosting participation in e-learning, and on getting the best value out of Moodle. It was great to meet up with so many e-learning enthusiasts,...