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Let’s get to know Australia and do EdTech business!

16 February 2018

Last week the Australian Embassy together with the EdTech collective The Dutch School, organised an interactive roundtable discussion about opportunities in the field of educational technology in Australia.

Together with ambassador Mason, his team and 24 other Dutch EdTech start-ups, Revisely joined the table and shared views, experiences and strategies to explore the market opportunities and undertake a potential business scoping mission to Australia! The Australian EdTech sector forecast is to grow rapidly and provides a great example for the Dutch sector.

A big thank you to Australian ambassador Mason and his team for hosting a great meeting. We are very excited about the possibilities of doing business in Australia!

 

Revisely now available at Utrecht University!

3 November 2017

License agreement
Revisely, the online tool for teachers to give fast, more and better feedback to texts, started a new partnership with one of the biggest universities of the Netherlands, Utrecht University (UU). Since September 2016, UU used Revisely to correct and provide their students’ essays and papers of feedback. After one year of testing and intensive cooperation, UU and Revisely concluded a license agreement for four years.  Teachers at UU can now correct assignments efficiently so students are easily provided with extensive feedback at their work. 

New project to improve students’ writing skills
UU and Revisely also started a new collaboration on a new innovation project on students’ writing skills. The aim of the university is to improve the level of writing skills of graduating students from all different fields of study with a better level of writing skills. Together, the UU and Revisely, will look for ways how the online application tool can contribute to this. This project is expected to roll out later this year.

 

And… we also have something else to celebrate..

Revisely now counts 185.000 users!

Yay!

New learning times interview on Jeroen Fransen, Revisely

Interview in the New Learning Times!

22 September 2017

Recently, an article was published about our CEO and founder of Revisely: Jeroen Fransen!

The New Learning Times (NLT) is produced at the EdLab at Teachers College, Columbia University. The website provides daily coverage of the transformation of learning opportunities in the information age for those shaping the future of education.

Read the article about Jeroen here!

Jeroen Fransen, CEO Revisely,

Social innovation

Back to school! Learning about social innovation

5 July 2017

Revisely’s goal is to improve the quality of education for everyone. We aim to do this by offering solutions that support teachers at their job, giving students a higher chance to improve themselves and by giving the school board more information on the level of progress. While Revisely is growing rapidly, we do think it is important to maintain and further develop the social character of the company. In order to stay focused on social innovation and to explore further possibilities, Revisely participated at the EU-funded Social Innovation Community Summer School (SUMSIC 2017) in Bologna.

The Summer School was held at the University of Bologna from June 26th to June 30th. Social innovations are new strategies, concepts, organisations or ideas that meet the social needs of different elements which extend and strengthen civil society.  During SUMSIC 2017 opportunities were presented for a lively discussion about the role of regions as possible ecosystems for social innovation. A special emphasis was devoted to the importance of history and culture of a region for the development of such an ecosystem, as well as the role of institutions, private and public, to support and facilitate such development.

The school provided presentations of cases and experiences of social innovation in regions in and outside the EU, as well as general lectures and talks. SUMSIC 2017 was a wonderful opportunity to learn more about social innovation ecosystems. Working at multiple challenges during the workshops gained new insight into social innovation possibilities. To be continued!

 

sumsic2017 social innovation community

social innovation community

Revisely release notes 2.7.0

14 December 2016

We released a new version of Revisely today with some big updates. Check your mail for more details.

Added:

  • Team hand-in: allowing students to hand in documents together as a team. Teacher’s feedback on one text will reflect back on all team members.
  • Peer grading: students are now able to give feedback on each other’s essays, papers and other texts

Improved:

  • User interface: the assignment list has been revamped completely to offer a better overview and more functionalities where they’re needed; we added a separate list where you see all students connected to one assignment; this is where you can now monitor and manage hand-ins, plagiarism checking and results.
  • Translations: completed translations to Dutch and Spanish
  • Lots of server-side improvements: you will only notice the improved speed

Revisely and Ingegno team up to introduce Revisely’s online correction tool in India

17 November 2016

Ingegno and Revisely announced a partnership to introduce schools in India to online text correction where students receive better feedback without extra work for the teacher.

Ingegno has shown a lot of experience in, amongst others, the content domain of learning technologies. They developed India’s first educational portal  and Identity Access Management System (IAM) named “India Grid for Learning” (IGfL). The IGfL allows educational institutions to access the appropriate high-qualitative educational technology providers through one simple application. At the same time the IGfL application provides Revisely the opportunity to come on board and access the education market in India.

Moving to India is an important step for Revisely. India has a big population of students for what we think this number is only set to grow. The Indian government are therefore embracing technological learning as a way to face the challenge of rapidly educating the working-class populations as they move from industrial towards a skill-based economy. Therefore, the idea that the Indian government, Ingegno and Revisely all embrace is that technology will change education for better.

Revisely meets Tim Cook UPDATE

22 May 2016

As you may know, on Tuesday 24th May 2016 the Startup Fest Europe starts in Amsterdam. Speakers include Mark Rutte, Neelie Kroes, Eric Schmidt (Alphabet/Google), Travis Kalanick (Uber) and Tim Cook of Apple. Our co-founder Jeroen Fransen (linkedin/twitter) will not only be attending this unique event but has also been selected to ask a question directly to Tim Cook. We won’t tell you the actual question now, but it will be education related. So tune in at RTL Z on Tuesday or come back here to see if we got the clip.

UPDATE: You can find the livestream here

Revisely co-founder Jo Ritzen gives talk in Shanghai

17 May 2016

Jo Ritzen gave the following talk on “Equity and Excellence in Basic Education: Challenges in the Netherlands” at the Global Conference on Equity and Excellence in Basic Education” in Shanghai, China from May 17-19, 2016

Jo Ritzen (wikipedia), co-founder of Revisely, is the former Minister of Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands and Honorary Member Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

 

Revisely is selected for xEdu’s Spring Program 2016

2 February 2016

We’re happy to announce that Revisely will take part in Spring Program of Finnish educational accelerator xEdu. Finland is of course quite a reference in education, so their interest for our text correction application is humbling. We hope to learn a lot from Finnish teachers and students. Also, we look forward to get in contact with other players in the educational ecosystem to see if we can add value to each other.

Anyway, Helsinki here we come!

Source: Warm welcome to the startups in xEdu Accelerator Program Spring ’16! | xEdu

The New Digital Stars Of Higher Education | TechCrunch

7 December 2015

This article on TechCrunch reviews why e-portfolios are such a big thing and how they can bridge the gap between education and jobs. Revisely, of course, functions as an e-portfolio itself.

Higher education is going through a well-documented digital revolution. Colleges and universities are awash in data. Accelerated learning “bootcamps” challenge the supremacy of the…

Source: The New Digital Stars Of Higher Education | TechCrunch

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