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  AGE E-Learning tools are designed to overcome some inhibitions in  
  schools' efforts to use ICT in schools.

 Have you tried to distribute digital interactive multimedia modules to all students?
 The problems encountered using CD ROM based contents or pure Internet based contents 
 must be giving you problems.

 Now AGE Homework modules allow teachers to easily distribute such contents
 in diskettes/pen drives where normal Interactive multimedia modules cannot fit. There is no
 need for PDAs or tablet PCs for students - just diskettes or emails to transport the contents
 home.
 It provides teachers the additional power of using students' home computers to complement the schools'.

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The most important of all is to instill upon our young the importance of preserving Mother Earth.
They can now contribute by using less papers in schools ... a measure far more effective than recycling because the papers are not created in the first place and the trees are still there. Imagine saving two rims of papers per child per year, how many rims that would be if millions of our students join.

                                      
 

Here are some of the problems facing schools in most (not third world alone) countries... 
 Students still heavily dependent on books
 Lack of Computer access
 Complete cycle  generation of questionnaire to submission of questions
 Teachers able to produce easy and straightforward E-Workbooks  
 The heavy school bags problems faced by many students today.
 Shortage of digital contents
 Complements the current Smart Schools projects          
 Overcoming fears among teachers to wards use of computers in Education       
  Implementation of computer systems in schools nationwide becomes
        cheaper.
 Easy sharing of AGE based courseware
 Overcomes shortage of qualified teachers

Students still heavily dependent on books 

   Currently students are still very heavily dependent on paper based books to do their study
   and homework assignments. Answers are mostly pen and paper based which are slow and
   lack the power of interactive computer programs to assist in their studies.

   AGE homework is designed to overcome such shortcomings to maximize the use of computers
   lying idle at homes of students using very simple tool and  processes every teacher can handle.

  
Lack of sufficient computer access in most countries
 Currently students' accesses to computers in schools are very limited. Schools with about 50  
 computers. shared by 2000 students, have about 9 minutes of computer time per day per student. It is
 hardly sufficient when students have 7 to 10 subjects to study.

Age's ability to create small sized modules enables students to copy such modules into diskettes and bring home to run the modules. Hence schools can now harness the computing powers of students' computers into the education system without cost. Otherwise the total cost of having the same computing power made available to all students nationwide would be prohibitive and no nation in the world today can afford that.

 
Complete cycle from creation of questionnaires to submission of answers
One of the major problems of modules development has been the difficulty of copying and transferring the right sound file, drawings, picture files to and from schools' computers and students' home computers.

With AGE, this has been made easy with simple mouse clicks. This ensures that the entire process, from the time the teacher creates the questionnaire/tutorial to the time the students transfer their answers from their home computers, is user friendly. To technical or extra skill is required.

Teachers able to produce easy and straightforward E-Workbooks   

Most teachers do not have the technical skills to handle state of the art multimedia tools that are available in the market today. Neither do they have the resources to create reach multimedia contents. Often times, all the teachers require are basic functions of typing in text with a bit of animation with simple colors.

AGE is designed for teachers to create simple, fast and effective questionnaires with instant self correcting capabilities in minutes. AGE creates at the same time the same questionnaire in normal MS Words format they are used to. That means AGE simultaneously creates questionnaires in two formats. One is the interactive self correcting questionnaires with many more questions, and which can be copied to the ordinary 1.4mbyte diskettes. The other is in the normal MS words plain non interactive format which students have to pay for to photocopy in normal A4 paper sizes.

Given the choice

1. An easy to learn, interactive and immediate self correcting with many times more questions digital format - its free too.
2. A normal printed paper questionnaires that need to be photocopied - and paid for by students
non interactive and have to wait to be corrected by teachers..

which will the students choose? .... obvious choice 1.

The heavy school bags problems faced by many students today.

When students do not have to buy workbooks any more and with the capabilities to create animated small sized modules the need the bring along heavy textbooks diminishes. This makes heavy school bags a thing of the past.

Shortage of digital contents

Existing courseware contents are usually insufficient to keep students fully occupied and are very rapidly finished by students. Using existing CD based systems would mean more delays because of cost of production, delivery etc. Extensive duplication of CDs would be very expensive and impractical.

AGE materials are easily copied into diskettes or downloaded through the Internet from any part of the world.

Using AGE technology, materials can be prepared by teachers everywhere and shared among each other. Rest be assured that contents availability would be endless- enough to keep students occupied without having to huge costs associated with CD ROM productions, storage, and distribution.

Cost of downloads are so low for small files and are able to reach any part of the country in seconds. Unlike CD based contents.

Complements the Governments' ICT in Schools projects          
    Smart schools in Malaysia or other countries are using state of art tools e.g. Authorware, Director/Macromedia etc.
    which in most cases require CDs to store the contents created.

AGE do not replace any such tool currently being used by these schools. These tools are still useful for delivering rich multimedia contents and have their rightful place in delivering contents.

In fact, AGE complements these software  with diskette/Internet being the main media of transfer/delivery of contents. After delivering CD ROM based contents created, teachers can use AGE to create instant questionnaires based on the contents presented. Students can copy them into diskettes for further readings at home.

Overcoming fears among teachers to wards use of computers in Education          

Most are unable to handle the complex instructions required to learn in most multimedia packages found in the market.

AGE is designed for teachers with hardly little IT competency. Simple mouse clicks are all that are required to enable teachers to produce interactive and simple questionnaires.

This ease of use will overcome the fear among many teachers toward use of ICTs in schools . AGE actually relieves teachers from many tedious chores e.g. exercise books corrections, photocopying questionnaires etc.

Under such environment an ICT project undertaken in schools would most likely to be successful.

In less developed countries where qualified teachers are lacking, use of AGE ease of reach through Internet/diskettes, will help to bring down tremendously the cost of contents development and distribution. Using CDs are definitely not the way to move forward.

  Implementation of computer systems in schools nationwide becomes cheaper
         and more effective.

Governments implementing usage of computer in schools incur huge infrastructure costs as well as huge maintenance costs. Security costs are also substantial. Using  AGE solution, the costs are cut down very substantially. AGE encourages usage of students' own home computers. Thus the huge cost normally associated with mass usage of ICT in schools becomes more bearable as the students are responsible for their own computers.
 

Easy sharing of AGE based courseware
Because AGE is  easy to use and create multimedia contents that are very small in sizes, there will be an abundance of such materials available for students and teachers. The contents, being easily stored and transferred in diskettes or downloaded from the Internet,  can be used year after year. If there are amendments the contents can be easily altered and reused. It is not possible if such contents had been stored in CD ROM. The reach and availability of such contents created would be very limited and short-lived.

It is our intention to set up a pool of contents for students globally to download. Teachers do not have to fear about lack of materials to teach. Students can practise, contents again and again any time they wish using AGE.

Surely such facility will be useful for all.

Overcomes shortage of qualified teachers
It is a norm to find shortages of qualified teachers in many areas everywhere. Using AGE as a source of contents and courseware, teachers around the world can provide reasonable guidance to students in subjects they are not experts in. The contents created by expert teachers in the field can help to overcome shortage of teachers in any particular field.

This is very useful especially in rural schools where a teacher may have to teach multiple disciplines many of which are not his/her specialty/expertise.

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