Training

Soffed Education offers a range of courses that are immediately, perceptively, and tangibly relevant to the use of technology in learning and teaching.

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Software Development

With Soffed Development, we can customise existing software packages or provide new solutions to meet the needs of your organisation.

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Consultancy

We understand the issues that are most important to you and to go with the grain in achieving change both in the speed and scope of implementation.

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About

Soffed – the people – count between them more than 40 years’ experience in Further and Higher Education.

Soffed – the company – emerged from the ashes of the old JISC Regional Support Centre Scotland North & East (which lost its funding in July 2011), and positions itself at the place where education and good technology meet.

Gone are the days where technology is seen as a means ‘only’ to improve learner choice and experience. Though this aim is still top priority, all colleges, universities, and schools now expect technology to be able to deliver tangible cost-savings as well as convenience and choice. In the current economic climate, ‘invest to save’ is the most frequently heard mantra.

With a solid track record of helping institutions save money (through initiatives that include the popular EduApps collections of freeware and open source software), ‘taking the Soffed option’ can mean achieving your e-learning ambitions in an effective but affordable way.

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Tablets – an inclusive learning tool?

This post is in part a follow-on to Kenji’s excellent ‘Best vs Good Enough’ article where he discusses whether you should be considering iPads over any other make of tablet for education. This post argues that for many learners, particularly those with additional support needs, tablets, especially iPads and the range of Apps can really [...]

Best vs. Good Enough

I was just considering which side I came down on in the iPad vs. Everying Else argument (in the context of Educational usage). I would have to agree that the iPad (especially the latest 3rd generation version) is the best tablet on the market today. However, I’m not sure that equates to it being the [...]