Timeline

iConnect established to support better training in corporate and healthcare.

1/3rd of all teacher trainees in Denmark using IRIS Connect.

Start of project with ITELab Knowledge Alliance, co-funded by the EU’s Erasmus Plus Programme.

Platform update: First free groups made by teachers available in the IRIS Connect Group Store

60,000+ educators using IRIS Connect worldwide

Film club launches

The ready-made professional learning programme

Platform update:

Discussions boards added to groups to enable community forums

Platform update:

Flipped learning possible with new student groups

Platform update:

Ability to add comments to a video, whilst teaching

Hardware update:

Release of Discovery Kit 6 Pro – simplified system for easier set-up and improved audio with two iPod Touch devices as microphones

British Council South Africa and the Department for Basic Education SA

Start using IRIS Connect to deliver teacher training over distance

Hardware update:

LiveView 5 – HD enabled camera with updated pan tilt zoom, wider camera view and restyled casing

Platform update:

Improved forms tool for deeper lesson analysis

Over 4,000 videos a week being securely uploaded to IRIS Connect

IRIS Connect office set up in Seattle, USA

SSAT

Become first IRIS Connect content partner and launch their Effective Learner Behaviours Group

Platform update:

Release of groups feature for high impact, low cost collaboration

Platform update:

Improved in-platform training resources

Start of Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)

Video observation and coaching project in collaboration with IRIS Connect and Whole Education

Platform update:

Video editing enabled

First ‘Shaping the Future of CPD’ conference held in London

Launch of more intuitive and technically advanced V2 of the platform.

IRIS Connect community all migrated free of charge

Start of strategic partnerships

Between IRIS Connect and VIA UC, Denmark and Saxion UAS, The Netherlands

Hardware update:

LiveView 4 – updated pan tilt zoom

Hardware update:

Discovery Kit 5 – use of iPads for larger screen, longer battery life and better WiFi connectivity

Hardware update:

LiveView 3 – improved audio with two wireless microphones

1000th school welcomed to the IRIS Connect community

20,000+ teachers using IRIS Connect

Start of the pan-European Creative Classrooms Lab project

Using IRIS Connect to improve teacher collaboration across 5 countries

Hardware update:

Discovery Kit 4 – introduction of dual view feature

Hardware update:

Discovery Kit 3 – improved data security with automatic uploads using iPods and the custom built IRIS Connect app

Hardware update:

Discovery Kit 2 – first touch screen Discovery Kit camera

VIA University College

Start a four year research and development study using IRIS Connect to support the learning of student teachers

Release of IRIS Connect Discovery Kit camera

First portable camera

Hardware update:

LiveView 2 – improved audio and wireless microphone

First IRIS Connect school welcomed

IRIS Connect is the first video professional learning platform with mobile camera systems that is:

Fully secure and cloud-based

Teacher centric and built around giving permission

Equipped to provide in-ear coaching, time-linked notes and observation forms

Launch of LiveView camera

First in-ear coaching camera with coach controlled pan tilt zoom

IRIS Connect born out of a research project at the University of Sussex

Coming soon:

New induction experience

to improve IRIS Connect’s free ongoing implementation support programme

Platform update:

ability to mention individual people in a discussion board to increase involvement (they will receive a notification)

Hardware update:

DiscoveryKit Live – first portable camera with in-ear coaching facility