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A task based learning system that combines systematic instruction with location based technology.
For people with learning difficulties and their work coaches in work environments in colleges and businesses.
Developed by National Star in partnership with Hatch
What is the need?
• Support for trainees with memory and sequencing difficulties
• Enabling greater autonomy in the workplace
• Enabling work to be completed consistently and accurately
• Building confidence and self esteem
What does it do?
• Delivers sequential instructions to a tablet when near a task beacon
• Allows tasks to be created and edited on location
• Provides instructions as speech enabled text, pictures or video
How does it work?
• Tasks are created and stored via a web-based dashboard
• Tasks are paired with beacons located in task areas
• As a user nears a beacon the task is downloaded to the tablet
• Tasks can be allocated per trainee or per task area
How does it work in pictures?
Enabling trainees to complete routine
job tasks independently
Tasks are sequenced as pictures, text or video
and access settings such as voice or background
colour can be individualised
Tasks are designed using an intuitive content
delivery platform and paired with beacons
How does this content delivery platform work?
Assign the task to a beacon
Name the beacon
Select a beacon
Select a location
Microlink supports EMBER as the UK’s leading Assistive
Technology provider to anyone with a disability or health condition.
Microlink enables people to thrive in education and
transition into employment using the latest technology
and know-how on the market today.
Dr Nasser Siabi OBE, Microlink’s CEO has a vision of an
inclusive society, where disabilities and health conditions are
not seen as barriers but as untapped assets to advance
humanity through access to the right tools and technology.
www.microlinkpc.com
Currently under development and testing with Microlink
Contact : Barry Croniken - Head of Research & Developmentbarry.croniken@microlinkpc.comTel : 02380 240317
An original idea from National Star
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