Speak UP!
From the outcome, understanding the potential and need in the market, we conducted test of functionality of the Speak UP app and registered necessary changes that we needed to do in order to create an increased user experience. These changed include both technical as well as content related enhancements. We also researched customer preferences in term of how they perceive today's challenges, facing increased bullying and cyberbullying, sexual harassment, racism, etc. all in all this exercise resulted in some 20 improvements that we are planning to implement.
We have also found that there are different needs how each school and/or school district want to manage the system. We have created a structure that makes it possible to have an assigned single responsible individual all the way to multi responsibilities as well as aggregated information from a number of schools so the school authorities can get an overview of the health situation in their school district.
The issue of security and how to handle personal data will be changed mid 2018, based on the new GDPR regulations. We have involved the right expertise to guide us on these issues and we will be well prepared once the new regulations will be implemented.
Learn UP!
We will start to include the basic education offer, proven to work through years of analogue implementation by the work of the Non-Violence Project. Schools for Peace, Level 1-3 as well as Sports for Peace, Level 1-3 are programs that schools and the sport infrastructure need to start implementing, to establish a consistent violence prevention education program in their school or sport environment. In addition through the research we have done, and witnessing the dramatic increase in bullying and cyberbullying, it is also necessary to add a specific bully and cyberbullying program from the start, that can both support the school, its management, teachers, and parents as well as sport coaches, and youth leaders within sports. In our research over 90% of the respondents stated that they needed a comprehensive content to fight bullying on all levels. Further more we will also develop a promo-program “10 ways to avoid being bullied”, which we will make available as a comic strip type of “tip-program” for students and athletes to download.
Through Q&A with teachers we have found that they expect an easy, step by step solution that all teachers can handle, meaning that both teachers that have less tech experience as well as teachers that are familiar with a digital learning environment can use the system. In discussions with teachers, we have also found that some teachers would prefer to be able to take part of the introduction of the education content in an electronic book format. Consequently we will start adding Beta versions of the Peace Programs in an e-book format, to understand if this is a good additional way to service schools and the sport infrastructure with relevant program content.
For students we have found that to get across with a strong message in a digital format, the content has to be entertaining, proactive and include a story/characters or similar, something that our main target audience easily can relate to.
Learn Up! will also feature a monitoring system how well and in what way users complete courses. The majority of programs we offer are built on interactive exercises that the students do in their classroom.
In the learning process for teachers, sport coaches, volunteers, etc, to be able to deliver an inspiring and motivating lecture to youth, they will after each exercise they complete, have to answer a quiz, which indicates if they have understood the essence of that specific exercise. If they do not complete the quiz, they will not get access to the next exercise. And if they quit in the middle of the e-learning session, the system will remind and inspire the user to continue. By the end of the course, once you completed all exercises for a specific course, you will be awarded with a Certificate, stating that you can now implement this specific program in the classroom.
Stand UP! is a new feature that we have developed, based on the fact that young people want to be involved and make the voice heard. They are extremely familiar with the social media landscape and understand how to utilize the techniques. Most importantly if you want to get young people attention, involve them in the process and who else form the youth would know best how to cope with these difficult issues.
