Sat-Ed on School
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03/02/2009 Satellite education – Providing quality education under extreme conditions
In the middle of an armed conflict, Sat-Ed Systems is delivering educational video on demand and other broadband services to nine local schools in the south of Thailand.
The area is the Deep South of Thailand where separatists are fighting the Thai army. The insurgents are fighting a guerrilla war against the government infrastructure and one of their favourite targets has been schools and teachers. School buildings have been the targets of bombings and teachers have been targeted for assassination from drive-by motorcycle shootings. Against this backdrop, Sat-Ed Systems decided to trial the concept of providing teachers with video clips to illustrate lessons. These brave teachers continue to go back to the school day after day even though they are at great risk...
The first step was to source content for the schools. Sat-Ed aggregated culturally sensitive educational content for the schools from its content partners. Sat-Ed’s goal is to first look for existing content and then, if necessary, create content if none exists. Through their partners, Sat-Ed was able to obtain content that enhanced the educators’ ability to teach while ensuring that it fitted into the curriculum and was sensitive to the Islamic religion which is predominant in this area.

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