User stories - Higher Education

IHM Business School

IHM Business School is one of the top educators in Sweden when it comes to HVE (Higher Vocational Education) for people who are following a new path in their line of work. IHM educates within sought after areas in, for example, leadership, e-commerce, digital marketing, business economics and sales. 

Peter Haaland Svensson, development manager for distance education at IHM:

“The last couple of years we have been looking for digital tools that can assist us in our ambition to deliver HVE in the best possible way, whether it is in the classroom or digitally. Loops is a tool that is very well suited for this purpose. 

It is a manageable, professional and intuitive way for our teachers to deliver as well as for our students to acquire education. It triggers each individual to keep up with a set study pace and at the same time it gives the group the possibility to deepen their knowledge together in different loops.

Loops is there for us when we take our delivery of HVE to the next level.”

IHM conducted a survey with 57 participants after having completed their first education using Loops. Through their answers, we can see that a majority of the participants thought that it was very easy to get started in Loops. A majority of them also expressed that the outline in Loops had increased their motivation for their work and made it easier for them to keep up with the set study pace. 50 of 57 participants give their first experience with Loops a very good grade.

Student quotes:

“ Super clear. Good to get an overview. Appreciate the teacher’s clarity in descriptions and videos.”

“Since I am used to working with different education platforms it wasn’t really a challenge. It was very good when Loops was integrated with Teams.”

“Good pedagogic tool. Gives you a good overview. Good that you can choose to release things week by week to reduce stress. Thumbs up, like it 👍”

Karisma utbildning

Karisma utbildning

Karisma utbildning offers vocational education to people who want to work professionally in the dog sector. Now that our students work in Loops, we can offer courses both as distance education with digital meetings and semi distance education – a mix of digital meetings and meetings IRL. Some of the courses Karisma offers are:

• Dogwalking
• Dog daycare manager
• Dog instructor
• Dog psychologist/specialized Cynologist

Sara Viforr at Karisma utbildning:

We were in need of a teaching system that suits all kinds of students. We wanted to be able to mix text with other types of content and offer our students the same opportunity to submit their work to their teachers. After looking for a very long time, we found Loops and got in touch with them. 

We have now got about 10 test students and we experience Loops as simple, effective and clear, for both students and teachers. The fact that you pay a license fee per student also makes it much easier for us, as a small company, to budget for the cost of our students. 

In the MR-piloterna we are human rights experts and we work to spread knowledge about human rights, not least the Convention on the Rights of the Child. We have used Loops since 2017 and, in collaboration with Loops Education, the University of Gothenburg and teachers and students at several schools, we have created two experience based teaching aids about the Convention on the Rights of the Child – The Rights Reporters (for 11-19-year-olds) and the Children’s Rights Detectives (for 6-10-year-olds). Both these loops, that are free for anyone to use, have been produced within the framework of the Swedish Inheritance Fund Project.

We can see many advantages when using Loops to spread knowledge about the Convention on the Rights of the Child in an engaging way and with student participation at its core. Our loops come in the shape of stories. Playing the role of rights reporters and children’s rights detectives, students follow a path where they acquire knowledge about the Convention on the Rights of the Child through films and different activities in Loops. They then examine how their school works to fulfil these rights.

Loops offers the opportunity to create interactivity in an exciting way, and features such as the possibility to listen to the text are important from a children’s rights perspective. We are very content and happy about our collaboration with Loops Education!