MOCA replaces textbooks with tablets
Online publishing company, PRESSMART, has announced the
launch of ‘MOCA’ (Mobile Online Classroom Application), a product that
helped replace textbooks. Very soon, a pilot project is to be taken up
here with two chains of schools.
The city-based
company provides cloud-based publishing technology to over 600
publishers in 33 different languages across 61 countries.
At
a press conference here on Monday, its chairman Vikram Simha Torpunuri
said an estimated 4,500 students of a school in Manila, Philippines, had
taken to an Android-based tablet with the name ‘PEARL’.
He
said MOCA was designed for an ‘Education Tab World’ without physical
textbooks, where teachers assign, distribute, receive assignments and
grade on a tablet computer.
Students could get and
complete assignments, follow their grades on their tablet devoid of
paper, get instantaneous feedback and ability for customisation, all of
which were delivered via cloud technologies, he said.
‘PEARL’
expands as Personal Learning Device Project and will help students from
Grade I to XII at La Salle Green Hills, a 100 year-old school.
Also,
it was probably the world’s first to have fully-digital classrooms and
students carrying just one device weighing 494 grams in the form of an
8.9 inch tablet with their books, class work, homework and exams in it.
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