Saturday, July 18, 2009

NEWS: Electronic learning

PRIMARY and secondary students will now have the chance to do additional exercises on most school subjects online.

A collaboration by Andaman Publications Sdn Bhd and Star Publications (M) Bhd, an e-learning system, would be launched in the near future enabling students and parentsto carry out extra work online.

Andaman Publications Sdn Bhd chief executive officer Adrian Chai said that the new portal included a built in artificial intelligence (AI) programme, so that the work done could be assessed immediately by the portal.

He added, “The system would also detect the student’s weaker areas and subsequent questions would be customised so that students could improve in their respective areas of weakness.”

Apart from being able to get immediate results, the portal would also keep a record of the student’s work and progress, which parents can monitor.

“Basically, the purpose of this is to make learning more fun and interactive in real time.”

Star Publications (M) Bhd new media group general manager Michael Aeria said, “We are always on the lookout for rich and interesting content, and since education has always been close to our hearts, this venture with Andaman seems like a good fit.”

The e-learning system would be available in the following subjects: English, Maths, Science, Chinese, Add Maths (Forms Four and Five) and Physics (Forms Four and Five).

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