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[newestcoder]

3D printer in action at Nulogy HQ. It is printing a piece for the Raspberry Pi rack being discussed in the background.

[knwong-blog]

Back to school at Nulogy

Back To School Season has taken on a new meaning at Nulogy!

Previously it meant:

A busy time of the year for our customers

A busy time of the year for the parents in the company

The start of a new batch of coops at Nulogy

However, over the past couple of months we are experimenting with a new process at Nulogy as part of on-going efforts to increase the speed with which we can teach people how to become experts with our industry and the software solutions we make.

As part of this we introduced a quiz which tests employee knowledge of our customers and software system. It's two-hours and 100 points, so not a trivial exercise. Unlike other businesses and software Nulogy's success is underpinned by our special domain knowledge, and also an extremely flexible and powerful product. Both are things which take a while to become expert in, which motivated the introduction of this new concept.

This weekend and last I did some marking of the quiz and it has yielded some intriguing results. For all its academic nature, one thing which it has been excellent at so far is identifying is how people who have had very similar learning opportunities differ widely in the type of concepts they retain. This is a much an indication of the teaching methods we use as the "students" themselves. I employed a couple different strategies for having the students learn, both more classroom oriented, and more independent.

This looks like this will be valuable input to the work we are doing to develop more formal educational tools, for both internal and external use. I hope to report back more here once we have more experience with our next school year!