Shift Learning

Over the last 9 years we have worked on a great variety of successful projects, some of which we have presented here as case studies. Many of the projects we work on are confidential, so only a small selection of projects are mentioned here.

Examples of our research work

The Learning Trust, Hackney - Schools Research project in multiple languages  

The College of Continuing Education, Walsall - Further education institution research project  

Wiley-Blackwell - Higher Education textbook development case study 

Examples of our usability and accessibility work

Palgrave Macmillan - usability testing of their website

Letts and Lonsdale - usability testing of their new website

Collins Education - usability testing of an electronic product for schools  

Routledge - Colloquial Italian - overhaul of the companion site for accessibility   

Examples of our website work

For examples of our work, please link through to the following sites:

CASE STUDY

Q&A Support, accompanying the Q & A Law Series for Taylor and Francis (part of the informa group).

This subject specific site employs a newsletter style of navigation. Supporting a series of 15 different books on law, the site includes a members forum where users can discuss their exams and share revision tips. Other interesting features included Flash animation, podcasts, and a password protection system that allowed the publisher to maintain an email database with which to contact users with new product updates and information.
We also advised the client on useful software and techniques to enable the site to be routinely updated internally. Visit the Q&A Support website

Blanchard, Macroeconomics 3e for Pearson Education France
A site which we edited and populated in French using Pearson’s own content management system.
Visit the Macroeconomics website

Field Statistics website for Sage
A site which Shift Media developed using an existing template. Shift developed a site specification, commissioning, editing and building. The site is hosted by Sage.
Visit the Field Statistics website  

McQuail’s Mass Communications Theory for Sage
Another site for Sage. Note the way in which we have used Sage’s own intellectual property (i.e. chapters from their books and articles from their journals) to give the site real competitive edge.

Begg, Economics 9e for McGraw-Hill l
We commissioned vast amounts of material for this site, which is in a market where supplements are extremely important to adoption decisions. We also repurposed material originally commissioned by the US company in order to make this site extra-rich without incurring US style development costs. We also commissioned the online interactive graphing tool which allows students to draw graphs in a variety of formats. We build the sites ourselves using their content management system.
Visit the Begg Economics website