Jana Vyrastekova

Review of SOWISO

SOWISO is a flexible learning and teaching platfor...

SOWISO is a flexible learning and teaching platform. Teachers and students can benefit from an existing material (course), but - and this is what fascinates me most - teachers can create or integrate own teaching material, program own questions, and customize the teaching experience for the students. We have just started with using the platform, and see a lot of potential. Of course, custom made teaching also means - a lot of preparation (for the first time) and time to learn how everything works. Importantly, SOWISO offers the flexibility we were searching for (allows to include own applications, slideshows, movies, texts...). The navigation through the system takes time to learn, but the support of SOWISO is excellent; with timely responses and a lot of attention for individual questions. Overall, I think it would be unfair to judge SOWISO by a content of a single course offered on the platform - because it is much more that a course; it is a place to organize teaching and learning with links across courses.