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CertifiedEducation quality
01/2018
Explain Everything

Explain Everything

Explain Everything Inc.
Working abilities
A cloud collaboration platform for meeting, learning and sharing experiences.

Explain Everything is a cloud collaboration platform for meeting, learning and sharing experiences. Explain Everything includes a browser tool and a tablet app, where the users can create presentations and videos and collaborate online.

Groups of any size can work together in real time and use integrations with Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and more.

Age groups 
Preschool
Elementary
Middle school
High School
Tertiary Education
Price 
Subscription
Languages 
Spanish
Chinese
Portuguese
Japanese
Italian
German
French
Finnish
Arabic
English
Platform 
Desktop Windows
Mobile Android
Mobile iOS
Registration 
Not required
Offline play 
Internet required
Pictures
Videos
Pedagogy
Educational Quality
Learning Goals

The pedagogical analysis covers how the product supports learning of the identified skills. The student’s role is assessed by four contrary pair parameters, which are selected to cover the most essential aspects on the use of the product.

Passive
Active
Students are active creators when working with Explain Everything. Students can create content with the product.
Rehearse
Construct
Students are rehearsing working abilities when using Explain Everything. The product allows endless possibilities so it can be used with any kind of content.
Linear
Non-linear/Creative
Explain Everything is an open tool which can be used in any way the user likes.
Individual
Collaborative
Explain Everything has great tools for constructive collaboration.

The following are the high educational quality aspects in this product.

Explain Everything is an easy-to-use tool for creative storytelling and making presentations.
The product has many constructive collaboration possibilities. Sharing is a crucial key part of the creative process in Explain Everything.
The Explain Everything app is well optimized for mobile touchscreen use.
The features and functions are easy to understand, but advanced options allow versatile use. Explain Everything also offers a library of aesthetic assets to be used in presentations.

The supported learning goals are identified by matching the product with several relevant curricula descriptions on this subject area. The soft skills are definitions of learning goals most relevant for the 21st century. They are formed by taking a reference from different definitions of 21st century skills and Finnish curriculum.

Subject based learning goals

Practicing versatile ways of working.
Practicing to work independently.
Practicing to work as a part of a group.
Practicing to plan and organize learning processes.
Practicing to observe and evaluate own learning processes.
Practicing to give and get constructive feedback.
Learning to present own work to others.

Soft skills learning goals

Learning decision-making, influencing and accountability
Practicing creative thinking
Encouraging students to be innovative and express new ideas
Practicing to argument clearly own opinions and reasonings
Practicing to work with others
Practicing to give, get and reflect feedback
Developing problem solving skills
Learning to acquire, modify and produce information in different forms
Practicing to use information independently and interactively
Practicing to find, evaluate and share information
Using technology for interaction and collaboration
Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
Practicing communication through different channels

The Finnish Educational Quality Certificate

Our Quality Evaluation Method is an academically sound approach to evaluating a product’s pedagogical design from the viewpoint of educational psychology.

The method has been developed with university researchers and all evaluators are carefully selected Finnish teachers with a master's degree in education.

More about the evaluation