Products and Services Overview

CURVESHIFT has developed a suite of tools and an approach for technology enhanced education that bring e-learning resources to learners, focuses on the development of individuals, documents learning over time, collects and analyzes data at a variety of levels, organizes information and delivers it to audiences "on demand." The tools are offered as hosted solutions and interoperable open source code with high level services in strategy and partnership formation, research and development, professional staff development, and technical support.

• eFolio
  A personal and professional electronic portfolio "performance assessment" system that is used for mentoring, monitoring, and accountability in all levels of education and training.
• Construction Kit
  A collaboration toolset for building knowledge networks, communities of practice and resource collections aimed for organizations, state departments, districts and schools seeking gateways to information keyed to their improvement priorities.
• Online Cases and Simulations
  Aimed for teachers and individual learners, and for preservice teachers and teacher education faculty. See www.etips.org for an example of a case-based project and www.simschool.org for a game that helps improve teaching.
• Online Surveys, Analysis, Reporting
  A full featured web-based contact database tool set aimed to serve organizational leaders and individuals who have data gathering and reporting needs.
• Online Campuses
  Flexible, full-featured work spaces for group and individual learning configured from open source e-learning platforms, 3D massively multi-user learning spaces and traditional telecommunications tools; aimed at all organizational and project levels from small discussion groups to international educational projects.
• GIS Mapping Technology
  To discover knowledge in complex data.