Announcing a Educational Portal Dedicated to Providing Distance Learning Opportunities to K-12 Students

Our upcoming eDistance Learning Educational Portal is being designed to be a full-featured self service virtual learning center. Read on for a brief enumeration of some of the features we are integrating in our upcoming release:

Core Functionalities:

• Online working space for the production of discipline-specific teaching modules.
• Private work space for each student.
• Enabling discipline communities to share teaching and learning resources using web-based materials
• Using and evaluating digital learning materials in virtual class rooms
• Promote discussions among shared educational content authors, teachers.
• Fully secure distance learning environment.

A short list of modules included:

• Quiz:
  • Supports single-answer, multiple-answer, questions
  • Supports tutor-graded extended text questions.
  • Supports Related questions to be grouped into "Single Unit" question groups.
  • All questions displayed on a single page or on multiple pages.
  • Self-assessment tests provide instant feedback
  • Allow one to take a Self-Assessment test multiple times.
  • Fully internationalized. To start with we would support English, German, French, and Slovenian messages. We plan on enabling a total of 39 other languages over time.
• Assignments:

  Electronic Assessment allows students to submit their solutions via the Web at any time during the submission period and receive immediate feedback.

• Peer Review Assignments:

  Designed to allow teachers to create peer review assignments for which the students upload their submissions for review by their peers.

• Lectures, Seminars:

  Virtual Lecture is a content type that allows teachers to create, and manage lectures, seminars and other courses. A "Virtual Lecture" encapsulates all course-related information. For example, it would contain all course-related materials such as presentation slides, exercises, tests, handouts, and/or reading lists. This component is also fully internationalized.

• Exams:

  Designed to provide an effective way to administer written examinations online, and have a computer-supported correction phase -optionally.

• Faculty/Staff Directory:

  Faculty/Staff Directory allows one to create and organize personnel directories within your "virtual educational institution."

• Study Guide :

  Includes a list of items, to be used for rating knowledge acquired by the students during the course of study. Also allows teachers to take short notes for each line item.

• Teaching Schedule :

  Includes information about courses and times offered, provides different views of the teaching schedule.

As you may see from only a few features we have listed above, this distance learning portal is designed to empower both -the teachers and students -with many state of the art web-enabled technologies designed to make education truly portable.

Stand by for more details!