Hello
to everyone
My name is Michael and I have over 10 years working as a teacher of IT technologies. I am an instructor of Cisco, Microsoft as well as some other vendors. As you know, the IT industry is currently one of the fastest growing industries . But technology education simply do not have time to adapt to changes in IT. This is especially true of classical higher education. This problem and became the basis for the idea of developing distance education system that meets all current and future requirements. During implementing of the project it is possible to solve other pressing problems.
Short overview
There are many peoples who can’t get expensive classical education for various reasons:
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Geographical position
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Lack
of finance
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Physical health problems
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Psychological problems, social
problems
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Complicated work schedule that doesn’t
allow attending lessons regularly
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and
many others
Our project was initially developed on the basis
of peculiarities of the distance education over the Internet, in comparison
with the classical education system it doesn’t have any excessive restrains and
keeps its flexibility and usefulness. It’s really a true system of distance education
that includes many functions, services, possibilities for communication and
employment, elements of the educational social network and many other
interesting features.
One
of the main benefits of the project is an access to relevant regularly updated and
moderated database of courses that contains text information, pictures, charts,
audio and video information, communication, discussion, and possibility to
consult the instructor. Moreover, the most of the courses and services of this project
will be available on the free open basis.
The second advantage of
the project is the use of special innovative techniques in education, such as
gamification and socialization:
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Students
are able to see the best way to achieve a set goal, recognize the order of
learning technologies as it’s done in the game «Civilization» with the «Technology
tree»
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It
will be possible to join the community of like-minded people for the joint
learning, discussions, problem solving, as it can be done in all MMORPG games
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The
system of achievements is developed both: for individuals and groups, as it’s
done in the World of Warcraft
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It
will be possible to publish information and see ratings of the main objects of
the system: students, courses, instructors, topics of discussion
Also, the project provides
certain activities that motivate people to get higher education (i.e. contests,
presentations of the best students, success stories, conferences with employers
and a lot more).
We plan to collaborate with major vendors in the plane of learning, such as Cisco, Microsoft, Adobe, AutoDesk and so on.
In addition to the study of modern technologies,
project participants will be able to implement the received knowledge on real jobs
with the help of placement system. Employers will have an access to the information
on the most successful potential employees, see the pace of their professional
development, achievements, and students will be able to show their skills by
passing quizzes and solving employers’ tasks.
What we have already
done:
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The project’s concept is considered
(courses, blocks of courses, communication between students and tutors,
evaluation system, students’ and tutors’ portfolios, bonus system for improving
the level of knowledge, placement system and more)
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Design of web site is developed
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The site’s engine that supports a
basic functionality of the educational portal is partially written
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Prepared ten educational courses specially
adopted for the distance education over the Internet (some video avaible on your youtube channel).
What needs to be done:
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The engine of the education portal should be modified to make it work for the whole required functionality and ensure further development of the project on its own
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We need a qualitative hosting for the time of project’s promotion (about a year) that will allow to store a great amount of information and provide a secure access to it.
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It is necessary to buy equipment for a special recording studio for making audio and video materials.
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The most important for a successful start is to create more courses, organize instructor’s payments and legal registration of copyright for the educational materials. During time preparation of the engine of the education portal we plan to write about 10-20 courses more. Number of cources will grow each month during the active work of the project.
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It is necessary to open an international organization to be able to normal operation with the world
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It is far not all what’s needed for the project, but all other expenses will be carried by the team working on it on voluntary basis.
There are many
plans for the future development of this project, such as:
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Developmental portal for children
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Getting higher education over the Internet
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Promotion of the study of advanced
technologies
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Center of intellectual activity –
provision of a platform for scientific research
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The use of a team of course
developers, tutors and students for implementation of the projects of any
complexity
If you are interested in
the development of our project but can’t make the financial contribution, simply
write your feedback and tell us how to make it better, what should be left and what
should be changed or just share links on us with your social networks!
If you have your own learning materials and you’d
like to share them with the whole world, please contact us and we’ll discuss it!