Use AGE alongside other platforms
Powerpoint :
You can use Powerpoint for your
regular contents with rich contents etc. Use AGE to provide interactive
questionnaires. This way contents can be kept to reasonable sizes and
ability to be used offline. Otherwise using PHP or Flash online systems
means those without broadband Internet may find using your contents
problematic.
Many teachers in schools are familiar with using powerpoints to create
contents to show to students. These are good and can accommodate rich
contents and set with videos etc.
CDs - these
are good and essential to all. However the problem comes about when one
cannot possibly send CD rom sized contents easily over the Internet
with broadband or dial ups. The files are just too big. Even in
schools, a teacher has only one copy.
So for those companies
which rely on CD/DVDs as their only way to deliver contents they can
consider having certain part of their contents to be in AGE formats.
This way, they can send their huge CD sized contents by the normal post
and having their daily real time contents be delivered through the
Internet whether dial ups, Satellites or broadband. This way the
courseware or lessons can proceed without incurring huge costs.
Html
Users and make
use of HTML authoring tools to create html contents. To provide
interactive contents/questionnaires AGE can be very useful. AGE is
currently using html to arrange and link to AGE contents right now.
Online Flash/Java contents.
Contents based on these
platforms generally require broadband to deliver multimedia contents.
Many users do not have such broadband connections and even more cannot
afford to have broadband connections in areas where broadband are
available.
The situation is worse in many African developing countries where
broadband, where available, are relatively expensive or non existent.
So using AGE to complement such systems is very logical because
for certain
areas without broadband, AGE can provide that last mile to enable
good interactive contents to be delivered. This way implementers
or educators would be able to reach out to both rich and poorly served
areas - those with and those without broadband.
..... or other platforms for delivery of digital contents.
Find out
1. how AGE can save hundreds of millions of cost of
implementations and new hardware purchases.
2. Why using CDs or online flash will cost you a big
sum without any assurance of success even in
developed countries
3. how we can really uplift your entire nation's use
of ICT in mass Education to the next level deem
impossible before.
4. how we can train your teachers to be digital
enabled from blackboard/paper based for almost
negligible costs.
(try this with tradition tools.... you would need
hundreds of million of dollars for a small country)
5. how with very little budget you can reach out to
the most remote areas you never dream of reaching
with available technologies and infrastructures.
6. Don't have to wait for nationwide broadband roll
out (if you have the funds in view of the financial
crisis). Use immediately.
... plus many more
benefits. |
