SKILLOON

Entrepreneurial Skills for Students! 

SKILLOON is an on-line personal trainer for students. SKILLOON helps to become successful, not only during studies, but it guides students toward future working life and they will be able to cope in the chancing societies.

SKILLOON gives concrete support for teachers realizing entrepreneurial learning and the needed 21stcentury skills in practice. Teachers gain skills how to guide students towards the future. 

There are many outstanding digital platforms and material supporting students´ learning process. However, there is no other learning environment stressing students entrepreneurial learning which has readymade research based content: 1) empowering assessment tools, 2) hundreds of activities and exercises and 3) student individual mentoring system. SKILLOON involves also gaming elements. There is also a teachers` learning center. 

The system as a whole is scalable for different situations according to teachers` preferences, regarding the needs of students and for different cultural settings. The system as a whole supports students´ self-guidance towards the needed 21stcentury skills. 

SKILLOON has its own technology, and research based design, by using Microsoft Azure. User interface is designed to be simple but efficient for both students and teachers. 

SKILLOON is cloud based and created for use from table computers to tablets and mobile devices. It can also hold many different attachments to inspire creativity (videos, sound, picture, text etc.) 3D and VR possibilities are coming fall 2018. 

Teachers are offered various statistical data, group and individual, in order to guide and follow learning paths of students. There is a training module for teachers to design teacher training courses and share tips. 

To have the system in usage in teachers´ basic and in-service training and having more student users for SKILLOON. 

Integrate student activities like using new EdTech solutions, such as VR, 3D, and creating an open forum for knowledge sharing and designing new innovations. 

Develop the international use of SKILLOON in countries where education staff suffers from the lack of training and affordable solutions for implementing education.

Research development

Develop SKILLOON content in Persian language (Farsi) and Swedish. 

Influence on strategies like the OECD, the United Nations and the European Commission promoting SKILLOON usage in the world.

300 educators are currently using SKILLOON: teachers, student teachers and counselors and other representatives of education. Having future teachers trained with the system we also have the real effect on change. In SKILLOON teacher trainers work as catalysts for education reform, in which entrepreneurial learning enhances societies' to become more entrepreneurial and individuals have capabilities to control and guide themselves, and in interaction with others. In total, there will be at least 10 000 teachers and student teachers, and 200 000 students using SKILLOON by year 2023. 

Direct contacts for schools and education providers.

Joint projects in European level and globally: like we are part of Entrecomp network in Europe. And we will continue developing joint projects through OECD and UN. 

Co-operation with policy makers to reach local schools and educators

Over 1000 educators, students and pupils are using SKILLOON in high schools and universities. Teachers implement SKILLOON courses. Students are educated and guided through the system. Students may also focus on their personal development. They develop their personal learning portfolio which is motivating for all pupils and students. In general pupils/students are over 14 years old. 

12 months: 500 educators, 10 000 students 

3 years: 4000 educators, 120 000 students 

Teachers gain skills for students' personal support. They understand how they can realize entrepreneurial learning in practice and how to implement the 21st century skills. The assessment tools of SKILLOON empower students' personal support. Students get inspired of their personal growth. They understand how they can make difference. In the future, by 2027, we have a generation that is able to cope in our changing society, and they can develop new innovations for social and economic well being. 

Our knowledge and understanding of education development is excellent in terms of new pedagogy design and teacher education. Our network consists almost all universities in Finland offering teacher education. 

We are a large group of teachers, teacher educators, researchers and digital cloud architects who know what works in practice! 

WHY FINNISH EDUCATION? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17ajgUNvUrg&feature=youtu.be

We also have a talented group education experts from international settings taking SKILLOON in pilot use, joining common knowledge creation and taking part of SKILLOON further development. 

National and international project funds

Licenses and training for private sector

We feel Solve helps us to distribute SKILLOON and create partnerships between schools and organizations supporting education. 

We have definitely a new model for affordable training to increase both the quality and quantity of teachers and other educators since we also have experience of SKILLOON usage in disadvantaged communities and in low-income settings, like in schools and communities having over 80 % refugees and immigrants. In all settings SKILLOON empowers self-trust and entrepreneurial mindset of all students. 

We can make a difference for developing education! SOLVE competition is a great tool for that! 

Some disadvantaged communities in undeveloped countries may not have ICT technology in the use for education. Although, in this kind of setting we can still offer some printed material of SKILLOON content to help teachers and educate them.  Some schools are still tied up with the traditional academic education focusing only on learning of subjects and academic contents.