One Touch Education Solutions

Professional Development for Educators
Most parents would agree that the quality of teachers and administrators is a critical determinant of the quality and effectiveness of educational programs. With a greater emphasis on improving the quality of instruction through ongoing teacher professional development, significant challenges arise. Teachers must leave their classrooms and their schools to attend single-day or multi-day workshop sessions. Their absence from the classroom interrupts their students' learning. The sessions are intensive and often attempt to cover too much information in a single workshop. For rural schools, as well as urban areas, travel time to a district office can take several hours each way, adding to the time out of the classroom.

In addition, a growing frustration exists among teachers and administrators from the increasing burden of professional development from state and federal initiatives. The certification and training requirements for educators continue to become more complex and current programs are largely inadequate. There is a rising voice that says,"It's just not working. There must be a better way."

One Touch provides educational organizations the opportunity to learn and share information where they work, when they need it. This capability creates benefits never before possible, including:

• Equal access to programs for all teachers regardless of their location or the size of their school
• Easy access to recurring training, professional development and elective career enhancement within each school
• Improved quality of programs through the use of a department's best instructors and subject matter experts
• Greater effectiveness of learning programs with increased comprehension, measurability, flexibility and accountability
• Rapid introduction of new policies and procedures with a consistent message
• Opportunity to elicit feedback from various stakeholders through two-way communication across a department

Distance Learning for Students
As the needs, demographics, lifestyles and locations of student populations change, education administrators seek to maximize the reach of their best instructors without losing the "high-touch" student-teacher relationship, or sacrificing the classroom interaction so critical to learning.

One Touch technology lets instructors reach vast numbers of remote students with consistent, visually rich content, in a timely and cost-effective manner over any broadband network. Combining full-motion video, full-duplex audio and two-way data interaction, One Touch allows any educational institution to simultaneously reach a networked classroom audience using an interactive keypad or a desktop PC.

Benefits to Educators

• Reach all student and teachers, regardless of location or infrastructure
• Improve student knowledge retention by requiring responses to pop quizzes
• Quickly create, implement and measure academic results in the local classroom or across an entire state
• Make any educational program truly scalable
• Dramatically raise the productivity of teachers

One Touch is helping to change the educational horizon for students everywhere. With goals ranging from simply enriching the distance learning experience to raising the literacy rate of an entire population, educational institutions have chosen One Touch's rich, video-based solution to help meet their goals.