SOLUTION
LearningSpots are implemented at designated locations where students can go to interact with their school’s online learning service. The edge hardware at the LearningSpots consist of satellite (or digital terrestrial) reception capabilities and various embedded web and streaming servers, all running on solid state disk drives (SSDD) of 1TB or 2TB in size.
These SSDDs hold vast amounts of multimedia-rich, educational material that is managed by the school system. The Learning Management System (LMS) that has been integrated with the LearningSpots solution is Moodle, but, other LMS's could be considered for integration as part of a project.
Whatever LMS brand is chosen, it can be integrated with Curriki, a non-profit education technology company, that provides a free-use authoring platform called CurrikiStudio, that provides a very easy way for educators to adopt blended learning and online teaching. The most important feature of CurrikiStudio being that educators create once, and publish to the various LMS's already integrated with CurrikiCloud, which include Google Classroom, Canvas, Docebo, TalentLMS, Moodle, and others.
Students can log-in when physically present at a LearningSpots and experience an “online” interaction experience with their lesson assignments, even though they are not actually connected to the Internet itself. If time at a LearningSpots is limited, a student can download lessons and go home to complete them. A trip back to the LearningSpots is required to “upload” the statistics regarding their engagement with the downloaded lessons that were completed, and get the next lessons.
Educators are provided student usage data and offer limited chat support through the low bandwidth (128kbps) return data connection that can be via satellite or some other wireless or fixed network that may be available.
The LearningSpots solution can start with a few locations and quickly move to 1000's by simply installing more LearningSpots.
LearningSpots is a solution that that can be used to provide a reliable and complete technical solution that exceeds the vision of most local, state, federal and country ‘Education to All’ vision statements, and, we have made it incredibly affordable.
How affordable? As low as $150* one-time per student (laptop), including a 10” Android Tablet & Keyboard (Wi-Fi), and $6* per Year per student