Wednesday 7 November 2012

Pearson offers tablet-based education solution in India

 Pearson, an education-related company unveiled tablet-based education solution, MX Touch platform for schools in India. The MX Touch platform will provide an access to effective personalised and collaborative digital learning with rich digital content, 3D animations, quizzes and videos.

MX Touch is compliant with the school syllabus. The product also allows parents to monitor the academic progress of children more accurately to assignments, difficult lessons covered during school hours and archived assessments and tests.

Genevieve Shore – Chief Information Officer and Director of Digital Strategy, Pearson said, â€Å“The MX Touch is a great example of how Pearson is harnessing technology to improve the learning opportunities and outcomes of school children in India. We believe that if our products and services can help learning flourish, so will people.”

MX Touch is available in three versions: MX Touch – ActiveTouch, MX Touch – Digitally and MX Touch – Ultimate.

MX Touch – ActiveTouch has pedagogically sound, graded digitised textbooks already loaded on the tablet. ActiveTouch is available in four subjects — English, Science, Mathematics and Hindi — for classes 3 to 8. Engaging animations, captivating videos from BBC Motion Gallery, and a host of interactive activities and worksheets will help the teacher add to their lessons. ActiveTouch instantly cuts the environmental impact of printing multiple textbooks and the number of books a student would have to carry with them during their school day.

MX Touch – DigitALly is loaded with DigitALly Student Edition, another edition of Pearson’s patented and award-winning teaching tool. DigitALly includes animations, videos, self-explanatory diagrams, worksheets, quizzes and several hours of experiments for different subjects designed to make the learning more engaging. MX Touch – DigitALly SE (student edition) can house an entire curriculum of a grade on a device and offers access to it not only within the classroom, but also outside and at home.

MX Touch – Ultimate is a bundled version that includes MX Touch – ActiveTouch and MX Touch – Digitally SE.

"Our vision is to empower users by giving them a cost-effective, eco-friendly product that captures their needs and has the curriculum framework at its heart” said Naveen Rajlani, Senior Vice President and Head – School Division, Pearson Education India.

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