LEGO Education

LEGO Education | August 25, 2020

The LEGO Group today announced the appointment of Fiona Dawson, the Global President of Mars Food, Multisales and Global Customers, to its Board of Directors with immediate effect. Fiona Dawson has worked for family-owned Mars, Incorporated for over thirty years. In her current role she sits on the Mars, Incorporated Leadership team and is responsible for Mars Foods’ portfolio of household brands, the various Multi-Segment markets in Mars, Incorporated, and the Global Customers. Mar...

LEGO Education | August 24, 2020

The LEGO Group and content creation platform Tongal announced today the launch of LEGO® World Builder, a first-of-its-kind story development platform that gives the LEGO fan community and creative talent all over the world direct access to the LEGO creative team to develop stories, shows, and more. LEGO World Builder, designed in partnership with Tongal and powered by Tongal’s technology, connects a worldwide creator community to the LEGO Group, who can incubate ideas, collabora...

Study International | January 14, 2020

Digital portfolios is the latest edtech to gain growing popularity in schools. Presenting teachers with evidence of academic progress and personal growth, they help to open up new ways of learning in the classroom. By storing a collection of successful and shareable projects, students can also showcase their favourite work to parents, peers and teachers online. And with the ability to share these documents with educators, it can facilitate sessions of constructive feedback on their creations. An...

Times Higher Education | January 13, 2020

From in-class polling tools to university-wide learning management systems, software applications – apps – are ubiquitous on campuses nowadays. By collecting and crunching data from staff and students, these programs play a key role in supporting students and helping the modern university run smoothly. These data, however, can be highly sensitive – and very valuable. Add the fact that many of these apps are created by third-party companies and you have, some believe, a ticking ...