Dual Membership
Members can choose to be both Educators and Suppliers, some individuals may be Educators that create their own products and want to have a market place where they can monetize their hard work. Others may be Suppliers who have a background in Education and are Registered Teachers or their business is based in the Education Industry.
Supplier Dashboard
Suppliers are showcasing products to the target audience, which will be of high interest to them, a virtual roadshow. Suppliers endeavour to provide Educators with a “bargain”, only available to members of the site and attainable via vouchers and special offers.
Suppliers have a dashboard, that give them statistics about shoppers interested in their product. If a Customer puts the item on their wish list, a supplier is notified so they might communicate with the buyer.
Products can be uploaded and Discounts created.
The Settings enable the supplier to identify specific countries that are being marketed to.
Educator / Student
The targeted learners in this Ecosystem are
- Educators
- Education Students
The information, resources and courses have been curated and offered specifically for this audience.
The aim of the Ecosystem is to cultivate a co-operative environment where users work with each other to achieve their professional goals.
Ultimately Education professionals will be able to demonstrate their knowledge and skills in a documented flow, learning from each other and strengthening professional bonds.
Feedback
When there is a question that this Guide has not answered and you want an explanation, have a problem/bug, have seen something that you believe is inappropriate and wish to report, have a suggestion – we are customer (learner) focused and want you to have the best experience possible, so that you have great things to tell your colleagues & friends. Please give us feedback.
WOT’s What
The Reference Centre for all things Educational. Apply to be the Feature Site, top right. You can claim a date to be featured.
Be the Guest blogger of the day. Guest Blog articles are added to the calendar and can be also be shared to “Time’s On”. All of the links are direct connections to educationally significant sites – identifying sources of current information of quality relevant to blogs, chats, tools, predictions, apps, product choices, league tables.
Work-Life Balance
This section can be customized in the Profile. You are able to create a direct link to significant Work aspects: My Employer; My Curriculum; My Registration; My Union and My LSM/CMS.
On the Life side are connections to places that educators might go to find the balance: Teachers Thriving; Facebook; Teacher Coach (Psychologists) and Bucketlist.org.
Relaxation / Holidays are in greyscale as this section is not operational as yet. Follow the pathways to connect to your life story and wellbeing.
Time's On
This is the source of information brought to the site from Education Specific RSS Feeds, Google News and EduCorp members, who believe the community would benefit from reading selected items and “share an article”.
The concept of “Time’s on” is to personalize your feed according to your interests. It is intended that this element of the site provides users with choices relevant to, adding to, an individual’s learning log. It is possible to customize and add RSS feeds for the benefit of the EduCorp co-operative.
By selecting the cog, the choices of feeds “drop down” and it is possible to manually customize your personal feed.
Each article is a direct link to its source. By following the link and selecting the EduBrowse a log entry can be made for any article of interest.
Resource Store
The EduCorp resource store is full of resources and services offered to the Education Community. These products are offered by suppliers on the site at “Best Price” to community members, in a co-operative style.
Just as our Courseware House highlights Free & Open Source Courses we also have identified a range of Free & Open Source Resources.
Please note, Tendering is in greyscale which indicates it is planned for the future.
An example of a section of the store is Professional Learning. There are relevant products to suit the needs of all educators. An example is Talent Dynamics, which is expanded, showing: Title, rating, relevant Global Goals, tag/s, description of product, price point, options for next action, Reviews and the ability to add a review.
Shoppers deal directly with the Supplier. Each item displayed can be uploaded on the Supplier Dashboard.
Noticeboard
The functions of the notice board cover a range of notice types.
Mentors - advertise a learning pod.
News is only available to Site Administrators.
To create a notice, simply select “Create a Notice”. The sample notice, left, is an event. The noticeboard can be filtered to be country/ies specific or global. The back end of the Noticeboard is a standard form to be completed.
Above left is “View my Notices”. This is a collection of any notices that you have placed on the system. Please note that notices are set to be taken down from the site after 1 month unless otherwise specified – expiry date. They go to greyscale if inactive. Notices can be reported to site admin.
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