{"id":209149,"date":"2017-11-06T09:40:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T07:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=209149"},"modified":"2017-11-06T09:40:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T07:40:22","slug":"bcx-launches-a-free-online-learning-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/209149\/bcx-launches-a-free-online-learning-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"BCX launches a free online learning platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BCX has launched a revolutionary digital learning platform designed to propel South African education into the digital future by providing free access to online educational content.<\/p>\n<p>Learners, educators, school administrators and parents will be able to access maths and science learning material at BCXLearn.com, with no charge for the content.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBCXLearn.com will revolutionise the way schools approach technology and teaching, and will remove barriers to learning for schools and learners,\u201d said Ian Russell, CEO of BCX.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLearners will have free access to education services and tools, as well as all the material in the standard national curriculum \u2013 from Grade 4 to Grade 12.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To empower learners and enable them to study outside the classroom, BCXLearn.com will also feature supplementary interactive educational material.<\/p>\n<p>The platform also gives schools the opportunity to create their own websites and tailor-make content to suit their environment &#8211; free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, people who access BCXLearn.com through the Telkom network and mobile will not pay any data costs.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/204282\/cape-town-startup-embarks-on-major-recruitment-drive-after-r1-4-billion-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cape Town startup embarks on major recruitment drive after R1.4 billion deal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BCX has launched a revolutionary digital learning platform designed to propel South African education into the digital future by providing free access to online educational content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":174895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209151,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209149\/revisions\/209151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}