Innofactor Wins International Quality Innovation of the Year Award for Innofactor Skilli - Learning Analysis Tool for Schools
28.01.2016 00:00
Innofactor Skilli learning analysis tool won the International Quality Innovation of the Year competition. The winners were announced in connection with the quality seminar in Tallinn, Estonia on January 27, 2016.
Espoo, Finland, January 28, 2016
Innofactor Plc (Nasdaq OMX IFA1V) today announced that its learning analysis tool has won the 2015 international Quality Innovation of the Year Award for its Innofactor Skilli, a cloud-enabled, analytics-driven education platform consolidating latest pedagogical data and advanced analytics tools. The competition and award ceremony are organized by several European quality organizations, including Laatukeskus Excellence Finland.
“Innofactor Skilli is a tool for analyzing learning. Our innovation is strongly based on pedagogical research data. The starting point was to research how to collect data about learning situations and development of future skills. Moreover, we studied how the collected information can be used further in building individual learning paths and in improving quality of teaching and learning,” says Janne Heikkinen, CTO of Innofactor. “We were determined to see how analytics data could help, for example, in recognizing in advance the students who are at the risk of dropping out. We used the help of pedagogical experts and pilot project schools, top specialists in Business Intelligence, user interface designers specialized in modern learning, and highly skilled software developers,” Janne Heikkinen continues.
“Once again we are very pleased to see Innofactor showing their leading edge innovation using Microsoft cloud platform. This new product will definitely make an impact to improve education, an area where Finland has been a world leader. By capitalizing on these strong points, Microsoft will continue to work with Innofactor to make this a successful business and help other countries with their education systems,” says José Fernandes, Technology Evangelism Director, Microsoft.
Innofactor Skilli learning analysis tool has strong position in Finland and growing number of pilot schools in the US, the UK, Sweden and Spain. In June 2015, Innofactor Skilli was selected as a finalist in the Microsoft’s international category Education Partner of the Year and in November won a Quality Innovation of the Year Award in Finland. Innofactor’s goal is to make Skilli an internationally successful product and to utilize Finland’s reputation as a world’s top country in teaching.
Background information
Innofactor Skilli
Innofactor Skilli is a tool for analysing learning. The product development is strongly based on pedagogical research data. Innofactor Skilli application operates directly in the school’s own Microsoft Office 365 environment with students’ and teachers’ own user accounts.
Innofactor Skilli in Brief video
Innofactor Skilli demo video
Innofactor Skilli theme site
International Quality Innovation of the Year
The international winners of the Quality Innovation of the Year Competition are announced annually in an international award ceremony. The winners of the 2015 competition were announced in Tallinn, Estonia 27th of January 2016.
The Quality Innovation of the Year Competition has been arranged in Finland since 2007. Its purpose is to increase the amount and level of innovations. The competition started as a national competition of Finland but has since then been expanded to include 10 countries. Today the Quality Innovation of the Year Competition is truly an international event with many more countries looking to participate in the near future. The competition is arranged by Laatukeskus Excellence Finland, a national non-profit organisation dedicated to performance improvement.
Hundreds of innovators from various countries have applied into this international competition for neutral evaluation and recognition of their innovation. More information about the competition can be found on the international site: http://www.qualityinnovation.org.
Additional information:
Janne Heikkinen, CTO
+358 40 768 4980
janne.heikkinen@innofactor.com
Leila Heijola, Senior Marketing and Communications Manager
+358 50 561 4451
leila.heijola@innofactor.com
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Innofactor
Innofactor is one of the leading Nordic IT solution providers focused on Microsoft platforms. Innofactor delivers business critical solutions and maintenance services as a system integrator and develops its own software products and services. The focus area in Innofactor’s own product development is Microsoft-based cloud solutions. Innofactor's customers include over 1,000 private and public sector organizations in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and elsewhere in Europe. The company has over 500 motivated and skilled employees in a number of locations in Finland, Sweden and Denmark. In 2010-2014, the annual growth of Innofactor’s net sales has been approximately 45%. Microsoft named Innofactor Plc as the Finnish Partner of the Year in 2015. Innofactor was also selected into the Microsoft’s international finals in two categories. The Innofactor Plc share is listed in the technology section of the main list of NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Oy. www.innofactor.com