Transform-ED Educational Consultancy Ltd

Transform-ED was created to provide an all-in-one solution for colleges and universities requiring consultancy related to educational development, project delivery & management, training & enhancement and digital learning. Amongst our team we have two Principal Fellows of Advance HE (PFHEA) and two team members have been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship (NTFs). We have  been leaders, managers, heads of teams and have significant (decades of) experience of working with others to support and enhance impact, practice, and outcomes. 


As a company we are committed to social justice, inclusion, sustainability, and representation - these inform everything we do. We work in partnership with our clients - all underpinned by data and project management techniques, as part of our strategy to deliver sustainable impact.


Sometimes, a project just needs a bit more staff capacity, and we can help to meet this demand. Or we can deliver a project whereby we work as part of your institution. Our team spans multiple subjects, disciplines, experiences and areas, and we can help with currently running projects and activities to support your work. Think of us as your own  virtual educational development unit.

Delivering Projects

We can work with you to support you with your projects and activities. This can be a short -term project or a longer engagement. Every client is different and through our approach of partnership and project management, we help to ensure the success of the work. Projects may include staff development, evaluation, and digital transformation. Find out more [about us].

e-Portfolio

We have a partnered with Drieam who created Portflow - an e-Portfolio tool which deeply integrates into your VLE/LMS and puts student agency at the heart of the curriculum. We can work with you to explore, integrate and support Portflow to transform your student  experience related to impactful assessment and student/graduate success.

News & thoughts

Image of Michael Holt - Transform-ED's new director of operations and client engagement.

Introducing our new director

December 22, 2024
We are excited to announce that Michael Holt will be stepping up as Director of Operations and Client Engagement. Following a successful 2024, we have been working to develop our growth plan for 2025, and Michael will be leading key areas including new product development as well as business operations.
Image of a robot on a yellow background for the blog post designing impactful learning.

We really like Moodle

December 8, 2024
We spend a lot of time working with different learning management systems (LMS) and there are some great products out there that do amazing things. An LMS we really like is Moodle and we thought we would share a few things we think are great.
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We have recently partnered with Drieam

November 17, 2024
We have recently partnered with a Dutch company called Drieam who have created a new e-Portfolio tool and we are helping to bring this to the UK market. The tool is great - over the years we have used numerous e-Portfolio solutions and struggled with their integration, usability or impact. We think this tool, called Portflow, is a game-changer and it works perfectly with Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard and D2L.
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A conference presentation by one of our directors

April 3, 2024
On Wednesday 17th April 2024, Mark will be talking at the Cambridge Assessment Network at their event: Assessment Horizons and Assessment Principles: navigating the future together. Mark will explore the role and potential of assessment design as a process for developing graduates of the future. In particular it will look at ePortfolios as a vehicle for delivering this design, and how we can create an agile system to help prepare students for an unknown future. In this talk, Mark will take an exploratory look at a degree education and explore the role of assessment as the ‘glue’ which, if designed correctly, can help bring a degree back together. Specifically, he will explore a structured approach to the design, delivery and assessment of the co-curriculum to support graduate development.
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Soft Systems Methodology in Education

March 29, 2024
A book by Jenny Gilbert and Simon Pratt-Adams (2022) Soft Systems Methodology in Education - Applying a Critical Realist Approach to Research on Teacher Education. Published by Springer. This book presents a unique contribution by adopting systems thinking principles, and combines soft systems methodology with critical realism as a qualitative research method to investigate teacher education. The innovative research strategy focuses on the creation of illustrations that vividly depict the perspectives of different stakeholders.
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New Virtual EDU service launched

By LN071476 • February 18, 2024
This February sees the launch of our new Virtual EDU service and we are very excited. A virtual EDU is: ' where a institution outsources its educational development to a third party and that third party works in partnership to deliver a shared service.'
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