Friday, April 19, 2013

A New Solution being developed in SA Education


B Smart
About us:
B Smart ZA has an objective to provide a South African orientated e-learning social mobile platform. It will provide the opportunity for essential educational services to be delivered through a mobile platform and allow for extensive collaboration within the education community.
The market size of the education sector is worth well over 200 billion rand. With over 12 million learners and over 25,000 schools excluding teachers and parents. There is an immense opportunity to provide a highly innovative and unique product that encompasses the needs of these three segments.
Due to social inequality, resources and an absence of high quality teachers, compounded with reduced quality of learning material and poor collaboration & accountability methods has left a void in the private and public schooling system vulnerable to challenges. South Africa needs a comprehensive mobile e-learning solution.
Even though South Africa may not have the very best in ICT technology there is a 137% mobile penetration ratio. By using this high level of mobile penetration within South Africa the B Smart ZA platform utilizes the popularity of a social media environment through a mobile means[1] to provide efficient curriculum delivery, student and teacher regional and national collaboration, community and parent insight and real time analytics. Due to mobile technology this platform is capable of reaching millions of individuals in the education community.
B Smart ZA addresses deployment of teacher training material, to student mobile collaboration, high quality curriculum delivery and tangible results that can be accounted for. It allows easy deployment and high speed access to engaging content through an educational social platform. By retaining high value information B Smart ZA opens new possibilities for course administration, advertising, and student analytics. It further provides a unique opportunity for hardware vendors, cellular providers, curriculum providers and other education orientated businesses the ability to access current and future users that they would not necessarily have the opportunity to interact with.
With the unique ability to adapt quickly to successful trends and movements B Smart is further able to accommodate new ideas and technology to stay relevant and sustainable.
B Smart has the capability of starting from grass roots level up to tertiary institutions.
Coverage will include South Africa with the ability to implement in Africa. This is the first South African conceived, designed and implemented comprehensive e-learning solution South Africa has ever experienced.


[1] Mobile means  - Including tablets, smartphones, phablets and conventional laptop’s and fixed machines.

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