Distance Learning
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This Education on Demand service provides a video distribution and delivery service and interactive web-based lesson management along with the underlying network and telecommunications provisioning to enable this service. The Education on Demand service provides teachers with access to the central content library where an extensive yet easily searchable virtual library of educational video content and related teaching materials are available to support both classroom and individual instruction. When teachers find titles of interest, they can preview the content from the central library via the school network and then request that a replica of the specific content title be distributed from the central library to the content server at the specific school building. Lessons, video content and associated tests are viewed in a full-screen, TV-quality experience from a PC either for individual student use or via television delivery for group viewing. The Education on Demand system provides the tool to create interactive distance learning programming that can be hosted on the Media Server or at the Network Operations Center (NOC).

Key features of the Education on Demand service are as follows:

• Educational content, the Education on Demand portal and the learning applications are stored and managed at central content libraries or hosting service providers
  
  
• Replicas of the Education on Demand portal and the learning applications are stored on each school's Media server
  
  
• Interactive distance learning programs can be created
  
  
• From a PC, teachers are able to order video content to enhance their lessons, construct curriculums and lesson plans according to state requirements and teacher's individual learning objectives;

Instructors and curriculum developers are able to:

• Play videos or video clips on demand that are ordered from the central library and then stored for use on the server at their facility
  
  
• Produce effective learning materials and with integrated testing to measure learning per student
  
  
• Deliver courses in the classroom or via distance learning
  
  
• Monitor and manage each student's learning process
  
  
• Share lesson plans and content with other instructors on the network
  
  
• Easily and quickly integrate video content into lessons using the Education on Demand portal.

This service is comprised of the following 5 elements:

1. Network. The service includes satellite network bandwidth for distributing content and for quickly accessing the Internet. Typically, the service is deployed with a terrestrial WAN, providing virtual LAN connectivity between schools in a district or country. This network is augmented by the satellite network, broadcasting video and associated teaching content from an uplink at the network operations and hosting center to satellite receivers at the schools. Bandwidth on this network will be provisioned to support the aggregate usage, and wi1l initially be configured for 3 Mbps.
   
   
2. Network Operations Center, a) providing overall network management and control, b) hosting web servers for the content, c) hosting the Education on Demand video portal and web-based lesson management tool suite.
   
   
3. On-premises equipment that receives the satellite broadcast interfaces with the WAN, stores the video content and then re-serves it over the WAN to the end users.
   
   
4. Installation, support, and help desk/maintenance services as well as associated documentation, Information Technology staff and end user/teacher training.
   
   
5. Project management which is world class and coupled with QDI communications management system to ensure that all government filing and audit requirements will be fully satisfied.
   

This is a complete turnkey end-to-end service - just add your rich media educational videos and lessons and links to cultural and language exchanges then begin to take advantage of the latest educational technologies.