EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
Optii Solutions | October 27, 2022
Optii Solutions, the leading cloud-based hotel operations software, announced today that it has launched a learning center with enhanced usability, improved search, and content designed for on-the-job learning. Almost every department and member of the operations team comes in contact with some aspect of Optii’s hotel operations platform. It was therefore important to ensure that educational content and accessibility works for a range of roles, cultures, and working environments. Optii’s Learning Center puts search at the forefront to allow users to access information quickly and on any device. Browsable content is organized to be user-centric and mirror common tasks and functions of any given role within a hotel operations team. Optii prioritizes recruitment from hospitality, and specifically housekeeping and operations. This ensures that the company maintains a close connection and understanding of all levels of hotel operations. While this knowledge is critical to creating a user-centric technology experience, it also serves to ensure that educational information is developed and presented in a quick and effective manner. Shelley Snyman, Director of Operations, Optii Solutions,“In developing learning content for our customers, I always start from a point of putting myself in their shoes. Many of the questions or challenges that operations and housekeeping professionals have, I have experienced at some point during my time in housekeeping. This knowledge helps me develop and structure training material in a way that will help team members get their answers, get back to their task, and be successful.”
“Customer success has always been a top priority for Optii. While critical, the impact of our solution goes beyond productivity gains, guest experience, and cost savings. Optii has become an indispensable tool for housekeeping and maintenance staff in their daily operation, and we are focused on ensuring their success. A lot of the value of Optii is downstream to that.”
Katherine Grass, CEO, Optii Solutions
About Optii Solutions
Optii Solutions is a hotel operations solution that leverages smarter technologies such as artificial intelligence, analytics, messaging and mobility to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of housekeeping and service delivery departments.
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EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
YuJa | November 28, 2022
Franciscan University is enhancing teaching and learning and boosting the digital accessibility of its content through its agreement with YuJa, Inc., a leader in ed-tech solutions. The Steubenville, Ohio, university has implemented both YuJa Enterprise Video Platform and YuJa Panorama to complement Canvas, its learning management system (LMS). Initially, the institution was seeking a replacement video recording and editing, media management, and quizzing solution for Vidgrid, which is phasing out its education offerings. It was through a pilot program that Franciscan University recognized that YuJa Enterprise Video Platform and YuJa Panorama would seamlessly integrate with its LMS, improving accessibility across the Canvas platform and amplifying recordings, media management and quizzing to provide the tools for every student to succeed.
“The Video Platform’s built-in accessibility features are enhanced by YuJa Panorama, Each product works as a standalone offering or combines to help deliver engaging video and media content. We’re excited for the Franciscan University community to leverage the capabilities to create an even more powerful teaching and learning experience.”
Nathan Arora, Chief Business Office at YuJa Inc.
ABOUT FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY
Founded in 1946, Franciscan University of Steubenville is no ordinary university, and a Franciscan education is no ordinary education. It is an education as rigorous and demanding as it is faithful-an education that challenges its students intellectually, forms them professionally, and feeds them spiritually. The university has more than 3,000 students in 40 undergraduate and eight graduate degree programs. The student body is 97 percent Catholic, and the university has the largest number of students majoring in theology, catechetics, and philosophy of any Catholic university in the United States.
ABOUT YUJA, INC.
YuJa is a leader in ed-tech solutions. Our platforms provide organizations of all sizes with the tools to educate, engage, inspire and collaborate. We serve learning enterprises within all sectors, including higher-ed, K-12, government, healthcare, non-profit and corporate. We have legal headquarters in Delaware with primary U.S. offices in Silicon Valley, California, and Canadian offices in Toronto.
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EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
Magic EdTech | November 30, 2022
Digilangua, a New York-based provider of a digital library of comprehensible novels, has partnered with Magic EdTech to offer an added solution for language teachers. The solution will empower educators with digital access to their publications and enable continued contact with languages being acquired. It will be available to teachers and students worldwide. Digilangua's digital initiatives for teachers and students will be powered by Magic EdTech's flagship technology solution, MagicBox™, an award-winning SaaS digital learning platform, accessed by over 6 million users globally.
Easing Education Delivery and Access
With close to a decade of success in publishing comprehensible novels, Digilangua seeks to broaden its scope by providing access to its learning materials via a digital platform. The company is an established leader in the publication of compelling, comprehensible novels. To date, their offerings include stories in Spanish, French, German, Italian, and English. The transition to MagicBox™ will allow the company to offer its libraries in a format compatible with multiple devices and operating systems. Digilangua will also continue to provide traditional physical textbooks for those who prefer them.
"We are very excited to be leveling up our business to provide a stable, workable platform for students and teachers,Magic Box is going to allow readers to better interact with the stories in our library."
Jennifer Degenhardt, co-owner at Digilangua.
MagicBox's eReader will allow interactive and personalized learning in addition to online/offline capabilities for a smooth learning experience. We are excited to partner with Digilangua and help them share their digital learning content globally," said Dipesh Jain, VP of Sales & Marketing at Magic Edtech.
About Magic Edtech
Magic EdTech is a New York-based technology company with over 30 years of Education experience. Its flagship platform, MagicBox™, is focused on creating and conceptualizing digital learning solutions for K-12 and higher education. The platform is being used by over 6 million students worldwide.
About Digilangua
Digilangua is an online platform offering comprehensible novels with accompanying audio geared towards readers learning second languages. Novels are written with level-appropriate language and grammar, focusing on the repetition of both to aid in learning. An up-and-coming company, Digilangua has readership all over the world.
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