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After Christmas’s over-indulgence, self-improvement is most definitely at the top of everyone’s agenda come the New Year. In that spirit, we’ve compiled a list of our favourite learning apps. There’s no excuse not to get learning when these resources are at your fingertips (plus, they’re less taxing than joining a gym)!
Creating a sequel is easier said than done. We’ve seen some software, games and movies losing the plot completely. But, with Storyline 2, Articulate have excelled themselves. Storyline 2 includes new and enhanced features, giving us multiple ways to bring our content to life with more control over how it looks and behaves. The new […]
This Thursday 11 December at 3pm GMT, MEDEAnet will host a free webinar to showcase the winners of this year’s MEDEA Awards and interview the successful entrants. AVA (Against Violence and Abuse) and Saffron Interactive will be participating as winners of the MEDEA Professional Production Award.
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The 360 assessment tool began life in the Second World War as the German military sought to appraise one another’s performance. Nowadays, it’s not (always) a case of life or death, but the idea of personalising a method of assessment to achieve an impact has remained an important one when it comes to performance management.
The MEDEA Award for Professionally Produced Educational Media 2014 is European-wide and is awarded to the best educational media produced by a professional company or semi-professional production unit. The accolade was handed to Saffron and AVA at a ceremony which took place during the Media & Learning Conference in Brussels on 21 November.
With a new office and new website, the past few months have been a busy time for Saffron! To top it all off, we’ve also introduced new brand guidelines. Two of our team members, Sonja Gebetshammer and Carina Weingast, have been charged with updating Saffron’s branding, and they’re here to share their insider knowledge about […]
Saffron and Against Violence and Abuse (AVA) have been selected as a Finalist at the European MEDEA Awards and shortlisted by judges at the Learning Awards for both External Learning Solution and Social & Collaborative Learning Solution of the Year. The triple nomination recognises the impact of a Comic Relief funded project to help practitioners […]
A pictogram, also called pictograph, picto or simply icon, is the most simple and efficient way to convey a message or an idea and has been used throughout civilization – from the prehistoric age, to ancient Egypt, until today. Pictograms have constantly evolved over the centuries. Often they’ve been associated with magic powers, used to […]
Saffron Interactive, recently named on Training Industry’s Top 20 Learning Portals Watch List, has been selected by International Business College (IBC) to realise its vision for a learning experience network. The Open IBC project will use open source technology and the Tin-Can API to act as a force-multiplier for IBC’s digital presence for a new […]
When it comes to iconic figures in pedagogy, you can’t deny that Mary Poppins’ learning approaches were well ahead of the curve. Whilst watching Saving Mr Banks last weekend (if you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it), I realised that there’s plenty we can learn from Mary P’s approach. She knew about everything: from […]
TrainingIndustry.com has selected Saffron Interactive as a part of its first-ever “Top 20 Gamification Companies” list, published this week. Saffron Interactive’s inclusion recognises its history in the area of gamification and its commitment to pushing the boundaries of learning technologies.
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