The EduVision E-Learning System (EELS) is an end-to end content management system that can efficiently distribute educational material in real-time to anywhere on the African continent. The project involves transforming curriculum content into a digital form, making it available to a greater number of pupils at a lower cost. Pupils will access the material via a simplified tablet computer, or eSlate, which will be wirelessly connected to their school’s BaseStation, a unit that downloads content from satellite radio. As a result, EELS is not confined to cities and the few rural schools with electricity, it is designed to work in the most remote of regions. EELS is extraordinarily cost-effective: the price of an eSlate is on par with the yearly textbook costs incurred by the parents of children attending public secondary schools in Kenya. The eSlate, however, can be used again and again, year after year. When outfitted with its solar-power unit the entire system requires zero infrastructure. The EELS software platform is similar, and has been simplified and pre-configured so as to not require outside technical support.
EduVision technology works in the most remote of regions, lowers the overall cost of education, while simultaneously significantly augmenting the quality of education. Students in the most isolated of schools would have access to up-to-date content, as well as sound files, video clips, animations and other forms of multimedia in spite of potentially living in a village without so much as a television.
Why Use the EELS System?
Reduces the cost of textbooks for
governments and families;
Provides unlimited quantities of up-to date
textbooks electronically, making it possible
for more school children to have access to
their own books;
Increases enrolment thereby decreasing the gender gap in schools;
Exposes school children to information Communication Technology (ICT);
Empowers schoolchildren to use the technology and to introduce it to their families;
Reduces the use of paper through electronic transmission of assignments from students to teachers.
