Netmedia Education designed and managed the UK NetYear education portal in 1997. This was one of the very first UK education portals and the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, personally endorsed UK NetYear.
Netmedia Education built the Birmingham Grid for Learning as one of the DfES’ National Grid for Learning Pathfinder projects. The Public Private Partnership with Birmingham City Council - the bedrock of this development project - is now in its seventh year.
Netmedia Education became part of the Espresso Broadband Group in 2006 and is now working on combining content with Platform.
Netmedia’s MyVotes software recorded 206,000 votes in 24 hours as part of the Birmingham Rock Idol contest.
Together with Espresso Education, Netmedia has a client base of over 10,000 schools in the UK – over 1/ 3 of the market.
In early 2006, Netmedia became the first UK company to join SIFa (the Schools Interoperability Framework Association) and is the leading Learning Platform company in this area.
Together with myinternet Ltd, our Australian partner, Netmedia Education serves the needs of 4 million users on 4 continents every day.
Netmedia serves five of the UK’s ten Regional Broadband Consortia – E2BN, Northern Grid, South East Grid, WMnet and Yorks & Humberside.
Netmedia recently won a five-year contract to supply E2BN and will deliver interoperability with Digitalbrain. This is a UK ‘first’.
E2BN will receive 50,000 teacher Desktops across 2,850 schools as part of the contract, making it the largest single deployment of its kind in the UK.
Netmedia Education, working in partnership with its clients, has won more awards for its software than any of its competitors.
These include:
 MirandaRose Award
BECTa Award BETT
ippr/Guardian Award
New Statesman New Media Award
Becta Innovation Award
Netmedia Education has some of the strongest partnerships within UK Education. Leading partners include: 4Learning, Learnthings, Equiinet, Chalkface, Gigajam, SAM Learning Collins, Big Bus, XMA, N2H2, Sophos and Spark Island.
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In a report commissioned by the German Government, Birmingham, with its learning grid and VLE technology from Netmedia, was listed as one of the world’s top two e-Learning cities. The other was Victoria in Australia, which uses the same technology supplied by Netmedia partner, myinternet.
Netmedia Education’s Learning Grid technology serves the needs of learners from the age of 3 to 93. Look at the Luton Learning Grid at www.learning.luton.gov.uk, which covers the Foundation Stage right through to the University of the Third Age.
In 2001, Birmingham LEA received an outstanding Ofsted report. As a direct result, Netmedia Education was interviewed by HMI to determine the part that the Public Private Partnership between BCC and Netmedia Education, and the creation of the Birmingham Grid for Learning, had played in achieving such excellent results.
Bringing history to life, Estelle Morris, then Secretary of State for Education, launched ‘Warwick Castle’, interactive content developed by Netmedia Education, at the Warwickshire Primary Conference in October 2002.
Netmedia Education helped the Birmingham Royal Ballet to dance online when they created the ‘Still Life at the Penguin Café’ site, a set work for the GCSE dance syllabus. The dancers come alive through streaming media, and the site features shots of animals from Africa via Africam.
At her first visit to BETT as Minister of State for Education in 2002, Estelle Morris visited the Netmedia Education stand where she discussed online learning across the West Midlands with David Wimpress, Netmedia Education’s CEO and Chris Price, Head of Learning & Culture IT at Birmingham City Council.
At BETT 2004, Secretary of State for Education, the Rt Hon Charles Clarke visited the Netmedia stand to talk to David Wimpress and myinternet’s Mark Lamont about international collaboration and exchange.
EMA, the Ethnic Minority Attainment portal developed for Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester LAs, with support from the DfES, helps enable all pupils to fulfil their potential.
Netmedia is the fastest growing UK Learning Environment provider with growth in excess of 40% per annum.
Netmedia’s CEO, David Wimpress is Chair of the Birmingham e-Learning Foundation. |