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 (opens in a new window)

The College of Continuuing Education, Walsall - Further education institution research project (opens in a new window)

Wiley-Blackwell - Higher Education textbook development case study (opens in a new window)

Examples of our usability and accessibility work

Collins Education - usability testing of an electronic product for schools (opens in a new window)

Routledge - Colloquial Italian - overhaul of the companion site for accessibility (opens in a new window) 

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 (opens in new window)

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 (opens in new window)

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 (opens in new window)

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.
Visit the McQuail website (opens in new window)

Begg, Economics 9e for McGraw-Hill
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 (opens in new window)