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Workseed wins EDUFI tender

Finnish National Agency of Education (EDUFI) has chosen Workseed as its learning management system for distributing learning materials. This decision is the culmination of several years of product development.

Workseed’s first steps were taken in the field of VET, where vocational institutions were concerned about the challenges posed by VET reform that their purely knowledge-based learning management systems could not meet.

We initially developed tools on our platform to support workplace learning and hands-on training. In addition, we provided integration with the customers’ online learning environments, which made it possible to monitor the students’ progress in one platform. Workseed constituted a valuable tool for a traditionally under-serviced demographic within technical vocational education and training (TVET). 

More comprehensive tools for knowledge-based training


After experiencing Workseed as easy to use for practical skills training, our customers gradually began to hope for a more comprehensive set of tools for theory and knowledge-based skills as well. Through a dialogue with customers, we were able to specify the customers’ demands for the new capabilities and launched a development project aimed at solving them. We knew that diversifying our platform to a comprehensive learning environment would bring challenges, for example in terms of usability.

As a result of our development project, we launched support for H5P content on our platform in early 2021. H5P enables the implementation of highly diverse content, from interactive slideshows to virtual tours based on 360 images.

H5P and other new versatile features for theory-based studies have now made it possible to implement completely different study modules on a single online platform. This development has been received well by our clients. The new interactive contents are now used in online course packages, smaller homework assignments and other short-term courses in both practical and theory based courses.

EDUFI tender validates current strategy


We reached a significant milestone recently after participating in the Finnish National Agency of Education EDUFI’s s tender for a SaaS based learning environment. EDUFI was procuring a platform for the production and publication of digital learning materials. In the future, EDUFI’s publishing department will increasingly produce digital learning materials as well as complementary exercises and teacher materials.

All the key suppliers of the Finnish e-learning market took part in the tender process. In the qualitative evaluation, Workseed was the only product collecting full points in software capabilities and ease of use and our platform was selected as the EDUFIs content production platform.

We will update you more about the progress of the project later, but we are already excited about the cooperation and the strategic plan created two years ago.

If you want to know more about the Workseed LMS’s potential to develop training and content production in your organization, or about the EDUFI reference case, feel free to get in touch to book a product demonstration with out experts. 

Authors:

Markus Weiland, CEO
markus.weiland@workseed.fi

Teemu Tiainen, solution expert
teemu.tiainen@workseed.fi

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