Slice is awarded a Platinum medal in the 1EdTech 2022 Learning Impact Awards

The Challenge

In the early 2000s, the teaching of microscopy-based disciplines was revolutionized with the digitization of glass slide sets. Disseminating these large, specialized images (1-20GB) to students was challenging. It previously required purpose-built servers and software leading to costly duplication of resources and technology across the higher education sector and each institution's resources were siloed.

The Solution

2022 marks the ten-year anniversary of the BEST Network which brought together academics from leading medical schools to establish Slice in response to this problem. Cloud infrastructure provided by Amazon AWS enables our image-based learning and teaching platform to be shared cost effectively by an unlimited number of students and their teachers. Slice hosts over 22,000 images, including virtual slides, from institutional collections which allows academics to choose any image that meets their needs for use in classroom activities worldwide. The Slice tools are designed specifically for education and include LMS integration, image annotation and image organization.

Recognition

We are honored to have our work recognized and it’s thanks to the vision of our founders that we've been able to reimagine collaboration in education. Thank you to all of our member institutions for their continued support. We are grateful for the hard work and dedication of our technology partner, OpenLearning. Thank you to 1EdTech for the time and effort that has gone into putting on the awards and congratulations to all of the winners and honorable mentions in the 2022 Learning Impact Awards.

Contact

To learn more and discuss using Slice, contact s.dowdell@best.edu.au.