Interactive learning boost for students
Interactive learning boost for students
Jul 6, 2005: Students will be able to share education materials with other member schools through a new interactive learning portal that is to be launched by the Association of Independent Schools of Western Australia.
AISWAlearningnet, which will be rolled out to AISWA member schools in metropolitan, regional and remote areas of Western Australia, aims to provide students with curriculum related activities specifically developed to meet their individual learning needs.
Students will be encouraged to learn online, at their own pace, with support and monitoring from teachers and parents, will facilitate communications between schools and provide a resource for sharing educational materials with other member schools.
AISWA eventually plans for it to be extended to provide parents access to school and student-related information.
In terms of security, Macquarie Telecom has been selected to manage the hosting environment for the project and to provide high-level security. It will deliver anti-spam, anti-virus and storage-on-demand, for up to 5,000 students in the first phase, scaling to approximately 15,000 students over time.
Audrey Jackson, the executive director of AISWA, said that security was one of the key criteria in the organisations' selection of a managed hosting partner.
"When we first started consulting member schools about the project they were extremely keen, but had one major concern: security. Student data will be transferred and stored via the AISWAlearningnet project so maintaining the security and integrity of the system is paramount.
"When it came down it, Macquarie Telecom's security pedigree was the telling factor. Now we can confidently tell schools their student data will be protected to the highest standards."
The infrastructure has been designed to grow easily so that the AISWAlearningnet project can be rolled out to AISWA member schools across Western Australia, including large independent schools to schools located in remote indigenous communities.
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