Monday, October 3, 2011

Mobile learning now possible with tablet

Saturday, 01 October 2011 16:42 Rizal Raoul Reyes / Correspondent 


DIWA Learning System, a leader in the education publishing industry, recently unveiled the Classroom in a Tablet mobile education system to address the growing need for more efficient ways of delivering content. 
 
Jose Maria Policarpio, executive editor of Diwa, said the company decided to pursue a mobile platform to enable their content to become more relevant to the times.

“So we have put together Genyo eLearning, eTextbooks, digital classroom magazines, and our online portal in one mobile device to give our schools, teachers, and students their personalized Classroom in a Tablet,” said Policarpio in a press statement.

The Classroom in a Tablet is Diwa’s response to the growing need for effective ways of delivering content. With the wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi)-ready Acer Iconia W500 tablet, teachers and students alike can access Diwa’s extensive array of multimedia, curriculum-based resources through touch browsing.

We’ve invested heavily in eLearning because as the Internet becomes more accessible and hardware becomes inexpensive, we want to make sure that quality content is delivered in an interesting and informative manner to learners,” explained Policarpio.

Through the program, Diwa is helping future-proof the current generation of learners by combining traditional resources such as the textbook with technology-driven educational materials.”

Genyo—the country’s first and only Web-based e-learning management system that contains learning objects, lesson plans, tutorials, activities and exercises for science, math, english, Filipino and araling panlipunan—is the core driver of the Classroom in a Tablet program.

Completing this mobile education package are e-textbooks, digital editions of Bato Balani and Salaguinto science classroom magazines, and the online portal Diwa Learning Town, a virtual library for teachers and students that hosts more lessons, teaching plans, reading materials, e-games, supplementary educational materials and more.

Policarpio said the Classroom in Tablet program is a leading-edge solution because it merges both traditional and new media in one portable PC tablet that can be carried in any place.

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