Join GoForth’s President & CEO Dr Leslie McGeough and Rocky View Schools’ Murray Arnold at the blendED 2016 Symposium October 23-25. There, you will learn more about gamified mobile learning, and engaging students in our changing educational environment. Dr McGeough and others will discuss ways to implement flexible learning strategies in your blended and online practice.
October 23-25, 2016
Radisson Hotel Edmonton South
Edmonton, Alberta
Dr. Leslie Roberts is honoured to be a speaker at the Higher Education Enterprise Mobile App Conference, March 3 – 5 at the University of South Florida. HEEMAC is the premier American conference for higher education mobile apps, and is attended by IT directors, managers, and communicators, as well as marketing professionals and educators interested in new developments in the mobile app world.
Speakers from several American universities and tech companies will be in attendance.
Visit HEEMAC’s page for more information about the conference.
Calgary held a unique event this week: Super Mobile Con – an afternoon of best practices, stories from the field, and a look at some of the most innovative new mobile applications and mobile strategies from leading Canadian companies like Shaw, Trans Canada, Deco Windshields, Oilfield Exchange, GoForth Institute and more.
The event was the brainchild of the team of app geniuses at Robots and Pencils Inc, whose clients are all thought-leaders in the mobile space. “Why not share what we’ve learned?” was the prevailing attitude during the successful half-day conference.
The room was packed with IT people, business-types and programming geeks and was standing room only. The main feeling in the room was not whether or not companies should go mobile, but how. If you’re not part of the mobile revolution, you will be run over by it.
GoForth Institute presented on the panel about gamification and why we built the world’s first fully-accredited high school course in entrepreneurship into a mobile app.
It was fun to be surrounded by thought leaders in many different industries who were doing some amazing things in the app space. Thanks to Robots and Pencils for inviting us to be there for the inaugural conference! We’re really proud of all you’re doing to bring mobile apps to so many industries, and we’re really proud of our partnership with you in education.
This week was an exciting one at GoForth. The mobile educational app we developed for Alberta Distance Learning Centre, in partnership with Robots and Pencils, received coverage on CBC Edmonton.
In the app, students demonstrate key concepts, work through a gamified business simulation and take quizzes, all in an entertaining, interactive, mobile environment. The CBC featured students from Leduc Composite High School, who are testing the app before its release across Alberta.
You can read the CBC article here and view the accompanying video here.