MagicBox and Folens Bag a Silver at Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Awards
MagicBox, the leading digital learning platform by Magic EdTech, in partnership with educational content and resources provider, Folens, recently announced that they won the Silver award at the Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Awards 2021 for the Best Advance in Mobile Learning Technology.
Research and analyst firm, Brandon Hall, holds the Excellence in Technology Awards annually to recognize organizations that have most successfully designed and deployed innovative education solutions and achieved measurable results. The selection process is stringent, conducted by a panel of industry-leading judges across criteria such as value proposition, innovation, unique differentiators, and measurable results. The Best Advance in Mobile Learning Technology category recognizes pioneering mobile technology solutions that ease education delivery and learning.
“It is a great honor for us to receive the silver for Best Advance in Mobile Learning Technology. It reaffirms our commitment to bringing the latest technology solutions to ensure the best possible learning outcomes while making education delivery seamless,” said Annu Singh, the Chief Product Officer at Magic EdTech.
MagicBox partnered with Folens to create Homework Space, a unique app that offers teachers and students robust tools for assigning, completing, and scoring digital homework assignments. Folens is now able to allow teachers and students to benefit from readymade, curriculum-aligned assignments and help teachers save time and effort on grading and focus more on creating personalized learning paths for students.
“At Folens, we are committed to offering outstanding educational tools and the best teaching and learning materials to enhance learning outcomes and make learning easy. The recognition received at the prestigious Brandon Hall Awards validates our commitment to bringing innovation to the education space,” said Andrew Miller, the CEO at Folens.
MagicBox™ Eases Digital Content Distribution for Plural Publishing
MagicBox™ is excited to announce a new partnership with Plural Publishing in the United States. The company offers a wide range of content across multiple disciplines associated with communication sciences and disorders.
Plural Publishing is known for its leading scientific, academic, and clinical publications in speech-language pathology, special education, audiology, singing, and otolaryngology.
MagicBox Named “Best Student Personalization Solution” by EdTech Breakthrough Awards
MagicBox™ has been recognized as the Best Student Personalization Solution by the EdTech Breakthrough Awards 2021. This is another validation of the hard work and dedication of the Magic team in continuously innovating on the digital learning platform and arming it with cutting edge tools to ease education.
We have always been committed to providing all participants in the education sector, including publishers, educators, educational institutions and students, with just the right tools to optimize education delivery and learning.
Our commitment was put to the test with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, when schools across the world moved online en-masse. The team at MagicBox was able to move with agility to ensure scalable and flexible educational solutions that could enable schools and educators to ensure seamless remote learning.
With GG4L, MagicBox™ Adds Robust Rostering and User Identity Management Tools
Award-winning digital learning platform, MagicBox™, has partnered with Global Grid for Learning (GG4L), a public benefit corporation, to bring improved rostering and user identity management tools to the platform. With these tools, educational institutions and educational service providers can manage all their rostering and student information from a single dashboard, rather than having to resort to multiple apps.
GG4L, which is committed to open data interoperability standards, secure data exchange and stringent compliance of student data privacy regulations, offers a rostering tool that provides multiple benefits beyond those offered by the usual industry standard app today.
“We are very excited to partner with a company that shares our values and commitment to making education delivery simpler and easier for everyone concerned. We believe that the integration of GG4L’s features with MagicBox will truly simplify our rostering process.” said Harish Agrawal, Senior Vice President at Magic EdTech.
MagicBox™ Builds the Foundation for Growth for PebbleU by Technics Publications
PebbleU chose MagicBox™ for its subscription-based business-to-business platform focusing on data-related books and videos. Using MagicBox’s functionality, the material is grouped into “pebbles” that support both micro-learning and traditional skillset pathways. Learning is reinforced using certifications, quizzes, highlights, notes, and social media. Access is through the Web or via the PebbleU Apple and Android apps, online or offline
Using MagicBox’s filtering and category functionality, content is organized into the Four D’s of Data: Discipline (Data Governance, Data Strategy, Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Architecture, Data Quality, Data Literacy, Databases, and Semantics), Discovery (Analytics, Statistics, AI, Robotics, Data Science, Machine Learning, BI, Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Visualization, and Storytelling), Development (Agile, UI Design, Distributed Ledger, Integration, Networking, Operations, Programming Languages and Tools, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing), and Direction (Business Analysis, Culture, Communication, Enterprise Architecture, BPM, Leadership, Management, Privacy, and Security).
PebbleU is owned by Technics Publications, which has published more than 150 data-related titles, including best-sellers like DAMA’s DMBOK, Data Lake Architecture by Bill Inmon, and Telling Your Data Story by Scott Taylor.
MagicBox™ Shortlisted as a Finalist for The EdTech Awards 2021
MagicBox™, has added another achievement to its ever-growing list by being chosen as a finalist for The EdTech Awards 2021, organized by EdTech Digest. This year, the prestigious award celebrated its 11th year as the largest recognition program for educational technology. Prior to this, MagicBox™ won the Gold at the Learning Impact Awards in 2020 and then went on to secure the Bronze at the Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Award.
The Magic team worked with laser-sharp focus in 2020, to ensure continuity of education through robust EdTech tools. The aim was to ease education delivery and learning worldwide during the unprecedented pandemic and school closures.