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The emergence of India as a global centre of an educated and skilled workforce has driven the need to provide quality education for all, irrespective of social and economic disparities and geographical limitations.
The Government is focusing on expanding the existing system to include the marginalised sections, provide equal learning opportunities, and drive excellence and enhancement in the quality of teaching and learning in schools. Which is why, in the 2014-15 budget, the Government has allocated 500 crore to introduce new training tools to motivate and train teachers.
Technology, especially e-learning, is helping the Indian Government bridge the digital divide between students in rural and urban areas. In fact, the Government—through schemes such as the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology, the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning and ICT@Schools—is leveraging technology for distributing video and web-based course content as well as offline multimedia educational content. The Government has allocated 100 crore for setting up virtual classrooms as Communication Linked Interface for Cultivating Knowledge and online courses in the 2014-15 budget.
The Indian education sector is estimated to reach 6,02,410 crore by FY15 on
the back of what is expected to be a strong demand for quality in education,
according to India Ratings, a Fitch Group company.
School in the cloud
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School Management System Virtual Learning Platform Collaborative Learning Tablets,Smartphonesand
Chromebooks Flipped Classroom Connectivity Curated Content 2014 2015 2013 2012 • offer inclusive education to bridge the rural-urban divide
and enhance the quality of education, especially in rural India, where there is an urgent need to create a platform for facilitating easy access to high quality educational content to students.
Xchanging’s education platform solution, school in the cloud, integrates infrastructure, software applications and educational content with full maintenance support; offering anytime, anywhere learning. From the demands of cloud-based software supporting online and distance learning, to the individual network connections of students on-campus, we deliver software and network services with high resilience and unlimited capacity.
We leverage ourinteractive Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) to aggregate, curate, publish and maintain educational content. In addition, we can also help foster collaboration between teachers from rural and urban India for educational content creation. This fosters collaborative learning and bridges the digital divide between rural and urban India. Furthermore, we also create an online education community to increase interaction between students, irrespective of location. This enables students to widen their breadth of knowledge and equips them with the skills required to thrive in the 21st century.
Edu store, Xchanging’s online store (integrated with VLE), provides quality educational content for students, teachers
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and parents through curated crowdsourcing. In addition to saving time, it also provides centralised and controlled content distribution.
Through Edu Store, we provide the students access to a wide range of rich, informative educational content including e-books, articles, worksheets and online tests. For this, we have partnered with leading content providers such as British Council, TED-Ed, Khan Academy, National Geographic, NASA and many more.
To provide error-free content, we ensure that the
country-specific teacher community verifies and validates the crowd sourced content. This is then published to allow teachers to create and share learning programmes within a controlled environment.
• address the shortage of trained teachers, especially in schools in rural India. Most of these schools are challenged with one teacher addressing learning requirements of multiple grades. According to a survey conducted by the Central Board
of Secondary Education, there is a shortage of 1.2 million teachers in schools across India.
our award winningschool in the cloud, is a comprehensive technology enabled solution including vLE, cloud Hosting, connectivity, chrome Books, curated content and school management information system. Our solutions help create cloud based virtual classrooms in remote areas to connect students to physical classrooms in real-time. This addresses the shortage of trained teachers. Offered as an
Education-as-a-Service, the Government can select an individual service module addressing their particular educational environment requirements, or build a complimentary end-to-end services solution.
• Promote device independence, especially in a high-growth economy such as India where various types of devices are used for accessing content. By partnering with manufacturers, we enable device independent content accessibility, thus allowing students to consume content at their convenience. We make sure they never stop learning!
Governments and educational institutions have trusted Xchanging, globally,
to transform their education systems and revolutionise the quality of
education to the generation of tomorrow. At Xchanging, we recognise and
support the complexities of teaching and learning environments, especially
in a growing economy like India. With our education platform, School in
the Cloud, India can leverage a next-generation comprehensive school and
learning management system to help:
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YOUR ADVANTAGE
our Education Platform solution, school in the cloud (a comprehensive school and learning management system), provides learning beyond boundaries, enabling students, empowering teachers and engaging parents.
In addition to our industry-leading education solution which provides 24/7 learning, we also manage and maintain a central data repository of students, teachers and administrative staff. We offer School Management System and capabilities around cloud hosting and network solutions (including design, installation, implementation and maintenance).
We provide scalable learning solutions at every level, including managed campus network services to leading universities and colleges in the UK. We are trusted to run the largest education account in the world-1Bestarinet, a virtual Learning Environment (vLE) initiative, rolled out by the Ministry of Education Malaysia in partnership with Xchanging Malaysia.
The initiative is delivering technology services to 10,000 schools, 5.5 million students, over 500,000 teachers and 4.5 million parents. This has made Malaysia the first country in the world to deliver a single, nationwide cloud-based learning platform via high-speed 4G Internet connectivity.
At Xchanging, we want to assist the Ministry of Human Resource and Development and the State Governments in India transform the Indian education sector through a centralised cloud-based platform and creating a collaborated education community. We aim to improve the overall teaching and learning experience for all students in India, by leveraging our proven and scalable expertise in cloud-based education transformation. Our aim is to help the Indian Government make the shift from industrialised teaching to ability-based learning.
Our extensive experience and capabilities in the education sector helps us
understand the requirements of all stakeholders, thus enabling us to apply
our end-to-end technology solutions. At Xchanging, we use open-source
learning platform for developing low cost licensing solutions for maturing
economies.
School in the cloud: chAnGinG the educAtion ecoSYSteM
• Offering a platform for parent-teacher interactions • Informing the parent of their
child’s progress by sending regular updates
• Allowing the parent better visibility on their child’s learning potential • Providing easy-to-use tools
and interfaces for parents to access school curriculum and results
• Faciliating online collaboration and knowledge sharing with other teachers (through teaching platforms)
• Delivering effective teaching methodology
• Providing 24/7 support for educators to resolve students queries
• Offering a platform that helps in providing assessment results (by sourcing data from multiple channels)
• Providing access to formal and informal learning resources • Ensuring collaboration and
knowledge sharing
• Shifting focus to Ability-Based Learning
• Offering standardised learning platform
• Providing interactive and engaging content, anytime anywhere
centrAliSed cloud-BASed PlAtforM
• offering a centralised School Management System
• facilitatingthe Government to effectively monitor and manage schools
• developing a framework for collaboration
• Providing a platform to centralise
learner-generated content
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• offering VLE
• Providing a standardised learning platform thereby improving quality of education delivery
• enabling education community to leverage and share best practices
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• enabling inter-school collaboration
• using curated content and same learning platform to share the best resources
Self-SuStAininG ecoSYSteM • collaborating to form a
community with students, teachers and parents
• engaging parents in the child’s educational journey
• Allowing teachers to collaborate and exchange ideas
• empowering students to target limitless boundaries of knowledge
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The world’s first nationwide cloud-based virtual learning platform over 4G, created
through our partnership with YTL and hosting a range of educational software.
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a comPlEtE End-to-End solutionOur partnership with YTL allowed us to deliver the world’s first cloud-based virtual learning platform over 4G. Competitors in this space principally offer point solutions. By contrast, our customer was able to source network content, capacity, connectivity and security from a single vendor: Xchanging.
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The majority of solutions in the education market are proprietary, high cost options. Ours is based on open-source software and free, crowdsourced content. This differentiates us and offers increased value for the customer.
thE larGEst ProJEct of its kind in thE World
Our technology and innovation is the power underpinning 1BestariNet, the nationwide project undertaken by the Malaysian Government and YTL, offering every parent, student and teacher an ID allowing them access to a variety of tools to make learning a more exciting and interesting experience.
Xchanging was able to prove its ability to deliver large-scale
transformation strategies of national importance through existing
customer and partner relations. We needed a partner that would
bring together five key elements to make this work–connectivity,
VLE, platform, devices and content. This is normally a challenge for
service providers, but Xchanging offered us end-to-end integration.
Yang Berhormat tuan P Kamalanathan s/o P. Panchanathan, deputy Minister of Education, Malaysia
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