"We need to get online now and find our students!" a local Northern California school site administrator implored us two days after the fires decimated the town of Paradise CA just miles from our offices. Last Thursday - November 8th, members of the Navigation North team in Northern California woke up to head into the office and quickly noted an [...]
This piece was based on a presentation we delivered at the 2017 Ed-Fi Data Summit in Austin TX. It is a summary of our work with Learning Tapestry in New Mexico to build and deploy the Canvas Open Source Learning Management System and then move two education agencies, their users and their courses from Blackboard and D2L Brightspace to their [...]
Navigation North partnered with Teach to Lead to launch a new website with improved user experience and a featured profiles tool. Visual Facelift During initial meetings with the Teach to Lead team, it was determined they wanted a more modern look and feel. They provided a few examples of nonprofit and education websites they liked, and we crafted a design [...]
Today our team launched WP OER - a free plugin which turns any WordPress education website into an open educational resource (OER) repository, available on the WordPress plugin directory. Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes. [irp posts="7638" name="Prepare Your Students For [...]
The Smithsonian Learning Lab was launched last year as a result of the partnership between The Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access in Washington, D.C. and educational technology agency Navigation North. Last week, the project was awarded a 2017 Gold MUSE Award for Education & Outreach from the American Alliance of Museums. [...]
We did it! Navigation North is turning 12 years old! In the spring of 2005, following a string of life choices which just weren’t working out as expected, Joe Hobson found he'd had enough with stifling his entrepreneurial spirit at a government job. So, he set out to try something new, on his own. After just a few [...]
Washington, D.C. based research firm Clutch rates Navigation North as a leading service provider in Minneapolis for 2017! The company evaluates digital agencies to identify the best of the best on services provided, companies served, and independently conducted client reviews. Navigation North has been partnering with educational agencies since 2005 to provide learning solutions and informational websites. Our clients include [...]
For over five years the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access (SCLDA) has been researching, building, and improving the Smithsonian Learning Lab for educators. But now it is time to hear from the students! We at Navigation North are proud to be a partner in this exciting venture which brings digitized collections from Smithsonian's 19 museums, 9 research centers, and the [...]
Navigation North had a blast at CUE 2017! Our team demonstrated some of the platforms we helped develop, including CTE Online, The Smithsonian Learning Lab, and Open ED Community. It was wonderful to meet so many different, creative, and excited teachers. We were asked time and time again, "How is all this stuff free?!?" Thank you to all the teachers who [...]
Greetings, citizens! Some of the Navigation North team will be showcasing our projects and demonstrating how to best use the educational tools we've developed over the years in partnership with organizations such as the Smithsonian Institution, along with state and federal agencies, at the CUE 2017 National Conference. Navigation North VP and Director of Education, Brian Ausland, was asked by the US Department [...]
