Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) is the infrastructure and service provider for SchoolNet, a new online educational system, which will improve efficiency and increase academic achievement within public schools across the nation.
Part of the Secondary Education Modernization Project under the Ministry of Education, the initiative is set to revolutionize the way school administrators operate, the way teachers teach, the way parents are involved as well as the way in which children learn.
SchoolNet allows teachers and students from schools throughout the nation to access reference material, tutorials, emails and other educational programmes over the Internet.
In addition, for the first time teachers will be able to access several lesson plans on their computers.
SLT’s IPVPN solution will connect schools islandwide to one unified network, which is SchoolNet, through the provision of multiple products such as voice, video, broadband Internet, network services and hosting services.
A total of 1,100 schools are to be connected under the first phase of the project, with 5,000 schools to be connected to the network by 2010. SLT’s IPVPN would allow all schools islandwide to have access to a centralized IT network at any given time, which will enable them to communicate with Network Operations Centre (NOC), located at the University of Moratuwa.
The planned network can carry Internet Protocol (IP) traffic – voice, video, mission critical and standard class data facilitating island wide schools with seamless connectivity.
It is a secured and fully managed network.
The project allows the SchoolNet community prompt online access to educational software and enhances the effectiveness of teaching and learning in the educational environment.
The impressive development in audio, video and computer assisted programmes along with computer mediated communications offer many possibilities for teachers to convert activities around interactive learning, watching related videos, online assessments and holding conversations in real time.
Courtesy: http://www.dailynews.lk/2007/10/02/bus26.asp
