Synergy Learning
Synergy Learning is an offshoot of the University of Ulster (Northern Ireland), which grew out of the university’s inability to find talented software designers in the local community. The university subsequently decided to develop their own workforce by offering a range of courses and online tools to support skills acquisition in multimedia platforms such as Macromedia Flash.
We felt that Synergy’s excellent tuition tools could be used to support teachers from all subject areas who want to use multimedia software in their own work. We have therefore agreed to run a series of trials which will investigate what further support (beyond Synergy’s online tutorials) will be required to enable teachers to use programs such as Flash and Adobe Photoshop in their classrooms. We think that this project will help move schools towards a greater use of visual literacy approaches and enrich the learning experience of the future.
