Learn-Now Open For Business

Now that schools are back for the new NZ academic year, Learn-Now re-opens for business, inviting new enrolments. Having had some hugely exciting leads from last year, along with many who expressed interest in returning, Learn-Now could potentially face its bounciest year to date.

Parents & schools are welcome to enrol students. Parents have the means to use Learn-Now as an online tutoring service this year (depending on the types of staff we have to cater for requests) and as an After School and Holiday Programme.

Schools have a variety of opportunities available to them. They can enrol a single student for extension & enrichment, a group of students as a team, or take up the whole class single-login membership. The whole focus lies in an elearning one, perfect for ICT cluster groups and anyone wanting to enrich learning with a serious 21st century style.

There are two key factors to consider when enroling a student in Learn-Now. Computer access time granted is crucial. At least an hour a week is needed, plus an hour offline. Secondly, when considering the fees involved, it has to be understood that this is what covers teacher salaries and if in keeping with the 1:1 time given, should just about be double! Staff deal not only with tuition and a huge amount of monitoring and facilitation, but behind-the-scenes development of a students' programme as well.

Check out the site! On offer, are customised projects, but our greatest offer is the invite that's extended to students to come with their own topic (maybe a class one) and develop that with an elearning angle with us. It'll reach students in other schools - and this includes international based students we have waiting in the wings right now. http://www.learn-now.school.nz

Interact: Online Learning Environment

Learn-Now's designed and developed in the open source software Interact. It's an Online Learning Environment which 'let's you take control'.

The beauty of this, is that the students too can be granted a huge amount of control as well and Learn-Now does dare to take what some have called an extreme step - letting the students have adminstration rights as well, for even greater control of their design and their work.

While Moodle and other software could have been an option, the most stunning difference between others and Interact, lies in the technical support. The Interact team are based in Christchurch, NZ and are such an easy email away. An incredible level of thanks goes to Glen & Bruce in particular, for their prompt responses - often within the hour! Interact suits students & its pedantic staff users perfectly. We can add what we like, when we like, how we like and for whomever we like.

Thanks to Derek Wenmoth...

Learn-Now began and continues today with thanks to Derek Wenmoth. We fondly call him our elearning guru and through his blog, we're kept up with his 'musings on the use and impact of technology in education, and of the future of education in general'.

There's little Derek doesn't know when it comes to elearning, not just within New Zealand, but also globally. It's thanks to him that Learn-Now maintains the drive to take another step beyond what was word-of-mouth enrolments only - not just in NZ but further afield even more so. To get your head, into his head - check out Derek's Blog!