Spongelab Interactive are the designers of STITCH a data-driven gamified platform designed for Educa
Spongelab Interactive are developers of STITCH, a way for associations, non-profits, educational and other organisations to manage learning, content, and people in a game based environment. Spongelab Interactive is a group of scientists, teachers, animators, artists, and programmers passionate about education, development and training. We know that teaching and training are exceptionally hard job
s and that often educators and trainers are stretched beyond their limits. The STITCH platform brings everything you need in one convenient location through partnerships, collaboration and detailed data analysis. . Spongelab strives to make education and training accessible and fun for everyone! Some of our findings:
- Continual education and training are necessary for all communities and organisations to thrive.
- Success in teaching, training, and self-development is hard to accomplish.
- Good education and training can be really expensive.
- There is vast variance in the accessibility and quality of educational resources online. So being game makers, we set up game-like challenges for our team and the organizations we work with. Can we...
- Create stunning content and tools to engage learners,
- Bring communities spread out around the world closer together’
- Manage all of your content and people, in a web-based tool that allows you to,
- Find resources, games, animations and learning modules relevant to your needs,
- Organize them,
- Share them,
- Analyse data on those viewing your content and how they are engaging with it,
- Evaluate and communicate with learners and trainees in the system,
- Organize your managers, administrators, volunteers and communications,
- Keep track of your members’, clients’, vendors’, and users’ information,
- Make it fun and engaging? Our solution was the STITCH platform on which Spongelab.com and other communities reside. A gamified learning management system that extends accessibility, increases engagement and builds compliance. Customized beyond basic branding with features you will use, engaging content that works, and the data required to develop even better features and content
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08/15/2017
Via INVIVO Communications Inc. Serious Games: Improving Medical Education - Whitepaper.
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Using games as teaching tools with healthcare professionals might seem like an unusual combination. However, part of game success lies in its competitive nature which appeals to the motivated healthcare professional." Read more...
Serious Games: Improving Medical Education
Using games as teaching tools with healthcare professionals might seem like an unusual combination. However, part of game success lies in its competitive nature which appeals to the motivated healthcare professional. Studies show that serious games can lead to a 29% improvement in mean clinical know...
07/27/2017
Read up on how the Internet of Things may affect associations, and many other organisations via CSAE - Canadian Society of Association Executives
What is the Internet of Things? (And Why You Should Care)
Michael Mackay discusses how the Internet of Things is already affecting associations and how it may continue to do so in the future while questioning if your organization is prepared
07/13/2017
We're looking forward to an exciting day of fun and learning at this year's CSAE Trillium Summer Summit. http://bit.ly/2tNtTZ1
Don't forget to catch Jeremy Friedberg's chat after lunch about elearning in associations. It should be a blast.
2017 Summer Summit Conference
The Trillium Chapter of the CSAE presents the 12th Annual Summer Summit at the Nottawasaga Inn Resort in Alliston, Ontario on July 12-14, 2017. Join your peers for two days of intensive professional d
07/07/2017
CSAE members! Make sure to catch Jeremy Friedberg at the upcoming Summer Summit, Wednesday July 12th-14th. Come out for his featured talk, eLearning for Associations: Boring People Since 1992 at 1:30pm .
2017 Summer Summit Conference
The Trillium Chapter of the CSAE presents the 12th Annual Summer Summit at the Nottawasaga Inn Resort in Alliston, Ontario on July 12-14, 2017. Join your peers for two days of intensive professional d
06/30/2017
A quick mention in via Flarrio amongst many other experts on the future of technology in education.
We had a great time with INVIVO Communications Inc. the past two days visiting VRTO - Virtual Reality, Toronto. Seeing all the great and tech, creative software and hardware and student projects, and talking all about VR in health and education. Looking forward to next year! https://lnkd.in/ep7W6HV
Don't forget to catch us and the good folks from INVIVO Communications Inc. Monday at VRTO. We'll be guiding you through 's impact in health technologies, and how to structure VR experiences to teach. https://conference.virtualreality.to/schedule2017/ -events
Talks will be lead by Spongelab Co-Founder Jeremy Friedberg, Director of Business development Joseph Wilson as well as Invivo Creative Director James Hackett and VP of Creative Kevin Millar
5 Ways to simplify your Association's Training
Two goals that exist in all associations and nonprofits are: 1. the education of members; and 2. the training of volunteers. The problems in achieving
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