The messaging service Wilma will be abandoned in Espoo and Vantaa. The goal is a new platform for learning.
Espoo and Vantaa give up Wilma ‘s school messaging service. Wilma will be replaced with a new program.
The digital wave of the second wave of schools in seven cities is beginning to approach the daily lives of students.
In a year, a new learning service platform called Digione will be tested in Vantaa, Espoo, Jyväskylä, Lahti, Oulu, Tampere and Turku.
The reform will change the habits and practices familiar to schools and colleges. It will replace the Wilman messaging service in seven developer cities, among others.
Wilma has shared users ’feelings, especially in homes. Through Wilma, it is possible to assess a student’s performance and behavior at school using simple color marking. However, there is a lot of variation among teachers about how easily the events of the school day end up being color-coded in the messaging service.
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In the new service, all communication and transactions between home and school will be brought together in one place. Hailer, a communications technology company, has been chosen to develop home-school collaboration services.
Decision making services are developed by Fujitsu Finland, reading and work schedule by the Austrian Untis and teaching planning by the Finnish Beanbakers. The value of the purchases is EUR 7–10 million.
Software work has been done for more than a year before the announced acquisitions.
Project Manager Kirsi Lehto compare the Digione reform with the kanta.fi service for healthcare.
Like kanta.fi also combines numerous different services with the needs of a very diverse group of users. The reform will bring together the various programs, services and learning materials for teachers, students, carers and administration.
In the pilot schools, the experiment will start gradually from March next year.
“There will be several schools in each municipality next year where the digital platform will be piloted,” says Lehto.
Other the schools and educational institutions of the participating municipalities will introduce the services in 2024.
There have been more than 500 experts in the development work, most of whom are education professionals.
The starting point for the reform was in 2019, when Vantaa received more than five million euros from the innovation financier Business Finland for this project.
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Underlying this was the observation that digital learning services are highly fragmented. You must log in to each service separately. It takes time to start programs, and the surface is tightened by varying usernames and passwords.
A one-stop shop for learning is now emerging.
Helsinki has also planned to abandon Wilma. The matter was reported in 2019.
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