Educdesign

Despite huge progresses in the web technologies, the integration of technology into the everyday school life often represents a major challenge for educational communities. Local conditions must be taken into consideration and technical, infrastructural, pedagogical, political, financial and formative aspects have to come together to be synchronized and concerted in order to trigger a successful assimilation of ICT in a school. A sustainable and broad base of a new practice needs a sound conceptual basis and systematic professional support and training, regardless of the existing educational and technological maturity of an organization. EducDesign helps organizations to integrate technologies in their learning and teaching processes.

Acquiring, deploying and maintaining IT-equipments, administrating servers and network-components and providing tools is simply not enough to ensure that technologies are efficiently an effectively used in schools. Teachers and school-communities need techno-pedagogical assistance in order to learn to naturally integrate technologies in teaching- and learning concepts and eventually in their day-to-day teaching-practices. EducDesign offers pedagogical support, training and project-assistance to schools and local communities.

Websites are effective and efficient tools in communicating and coordinating with the members of the school community and the outer-world about what's going on.
EducDesign develops visually attractive and device-responsive internet-portals aligned with the corporate identity of the educational or cultural organization, which can easily be maintained and updated by the school-community.

The deeper technologies support organisational, learning and teaching processes, the more dependent an organisation becomes regarding to the availability of the technical solutions and components (Hardware and Software). EducDesign is aware of this challenge and of the complex and systemic interdependency of all the technological layers. In order to help schools to cope with technical problems in daily business or to manage ICT-projects, EducDesign offers the service-pack TechCare, allowing schools to concentrate on their pedagogical missions

Based on the powerful OLEFA-Database-Engine, EducDesign provides professional and state-of-the art solutions to organizations, wich need to manage their media.
The integrated Media Management system embedded in the OLEFA-Platform allows organizations to manage their digital and material assets in a professional way and has been conceived to respond to the requirements of organizations of all types and sizes.

EducDesign has gained a lot of experience in designing and organizing libraries and bringing them online. So far we have supported more than 100 public and educational libraries, and libraries from administrations and non-profit organizations.

Based on the generic database-engine integrated in OLEFA, EducDesign can develop complex but easy-to-use solutions, allowing organizations to collect, store, structure and make available data in a meaningful way for themselves and/or their customers.
All kind of media, artefacts and file-types (pictures, video, office-documents, historical archives, physical stock and objects) can be managed within a database.
The solutions allow to classify, categorize media according to internal and/or international bibliographic standards and to apply intelligent meta- and social tagging to the data.

OLEFA-ILMS (Integrated Learning Management System) is developed and maintained by EducDesign. It is a highly integrated platform of tools which can be used in educational and scholarly contexts. All Tools support meaningful, productive, autonomous and collaborative learning and teaching. Every application can be used by Kindergarten, K12 and secondary education institutions as well as by adult education institutions. All tools have a strong oral communication focus. The platform easily adapts itself to any curriculum, pedagogical culture, instructional design or linguistic context.

Over the last decade EducDesign has implemented media-management in more than 100 libraries in schools and cultural institutions.

OLEFA-IMMS (Integrated Media Management System) allows schools, associations, public institutions and private companies to manage their digital and material assets in a professional way and has been conceived to respond to the requirements of organisations of all types and sizes.

OLEFA CMS (Content Management System) was developed by EducDesign with the idea that even persons without special IT-skills should be able to maintain most of the content of a website themselves. Powerful, yet easy-to-use, functions and database-mechanisms allow users to update the contents on the pages. Integrated HTML5-functions give maximum comfort to administrators to load up multimedia files, such as pictures, video- and audio-files.

We are aware of the potential risks and opportunities of the Internet, especially in educational and scholarly contexts. In order to protect at the same time pupils from inadequate content and to give teachers the possibility to unblock specific pages or computers for a limited timeframe for their courses, EducDesign has developed a specific filter-management-solution which allows to safely do this.