Coca-Cola E-learning centers
Provider :
Coca-cola company partnering with governments, multilateral organizations, NGOs (non-government organizations)
Mode of Education :
E-education
Areas covered :
Countries in Asia Pacific region like Vietnam , Philippines , Malaysia, China.
Description:
The Coca-Cola E-Learning Centers are equipped with computers providing Internet and e-mail access, as well as software, books, and air conditioners to create comfortable, exciting learning environments, both during and after school hours. They have set up a website and intranet to enable on-line communication and dialogue between all Centers and program administrators. It also benefits a new generation of teachers and students through the innovative, fun and locally relevant use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).
The project also involves ICT skills training for school teachers who, for
example, are using the e-learning centers and software to teach such subjects as
Math, local language, English and History. Farmers and other local community
members can also use the Internet facilities to access such information as
weather conditions and agricultural commodity data.
Together with local partners and local communities,
They have established an E-Learning Center of Excellence at the School of
Education Studies of the Science University of Malaysia in Penang to serve as a
research and development center for the project and to develop more teaching
materials.
These "e-learning" centers are being replicated in other parts of the
world
Achievements:
- 10,000 Chinese students and their communities have benefited from the
project which has so far established twenty '
Coca-Cola e-learning centers' - In the rural Peninsular Malaysia area over 5,000 students and teachers
were benefited.
- The initiative, run together with the Manila-based Foundation for Information Technology Education and Development, has benefited over 15,000 Filipino schoolchildren
Contact:
The
P.O. Box 1734
Atlanta, GA, USA 30301