star schools case study atul patel star schools
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STREAMING MEDIA FOR ORGANISATIONS CONFERENCE 3 & 4 November 2009 The Wanderers Club, Johannesburg, South AfricaTRANSCRIPT
Media Streaminga case study
PRESENTED BY:
Atulkumar PatelCEO
3rd October 2009
• Supplementary Education Solution Provider
• Grades 10, 11 & 12 (Secondary Schooling).
• Grades 1, 2 & 3 (Primary Schooling).
• Educator Mediation Programme.
• Learnership and Career Orientation Programme.
• Biggest Matric Re-write School in the country.
• Serve over 15 000 Learners, Nationally.
• Over 100 Educators, Authors and Moderators.
• English 1st & Home Language, Mathematics, PhysicalScience, Mathematical Literacy, Accounting, LifeSciences, Life Skills and Numeracy.
• Star Schools Methodologies and Processes are UmalusiAccredited (Quality Assurance Programme).
National Grid
about us
the questions
1. How do we have a continuous engagement with the learner?
2. How do we make this engagement as close to a contact experience?
3. What makes a contact or classroom experience irreplaceable?
4. How do we make the solution accessible to all learners?
the challenge
User Friendly
Sustainable
Portable
Engaging
Fit-for-Purpose
Cost
Bandwidth
Accessibility
Assessment & Tracking
Media Rich Content
Live Event
Self Paced Learning
Collaboration & Social Networking
architecture
Technology Application Provisioning Broadcast Media Rich Content
On-line Office Suite Live E-Books
Mobile Communication Streaming Multimedia
CD/DVD Document Management Gadgets/Widgets
application provisioning
streaming technologies
Broadcast
Live
Streaming Unicast
Host-to-Host
Expensive
Replicates Media
Multicast
Host-to-Multiple Hosts
Relatively Inexpensive
Uses Single Media Stream
Application
E-Learning
Video-on-Demand
Whiteboard Data Change
Web TV, Web Radio
unicast streaming
Source
Rece
iver
IP Cloud
Real Life Example:
• One hour of video encoded at 300 kb/s encoded in a 320×240 pixels window size.
• If the file is stored on a server for on-demand streaming and this stream is viewed by 1 000 people at the same time using a uincast protocol, the requirement is:
300 kb/s × 1 000 = 300 000 kb/s = 300MB of bandwidth
135GB per hour
multicast streaming
Source
Rece
iver
IP Cloud
Real Life Example:
• One hour of video encoded at 300 kb/s encoded in a 320×240 pixels window size.
• If the file is stored on a server for on-demand streaming and this stream is viewed by 1 000 people at the same time using a multicast protocol, the requirement is:
300 kb/s
the solution
eyes• Visual Sensory
ears• Auditory
hands• Fine Motor Skills
the solution
Tools
Simulations
Additional Reading
E-Book
portability roadmap
On-line
FLV, MP3
CD / DVD
FLV
Jan 2010
Mobile
3GP
