In 2020, schools across South Africa have faced their most challenging academic year yet, with lockdown closures disrupting learning in significant ways.<\/p>\n
While hard-working teachers and principals have tried their best to adapt and innovate, the COVID-19 crisis has served as a wake-up call for many schools to improve their e-learning capabilities.<\/p>\n
In this environment, it\u2019s wise to ensure that your school has the best e-learning facilities at hand so that it can keep ahead of learning trends in our increasingly digitised world.<\/p>\n
Optimi Classroom are experts in both learning and e-learning, and services more than 1,000 schools across the country.<\/p>\n
The company can help your school along its e-learning journey with key aspects such as digital facilitation, e-books, and 21st<\/sup> century teacher training.<\/p>\n Optimi Classroom achieves this by providing a high-tech digital facilitator console which gives schools the ability to manage teachers, learners, courses, and classes in one place.<\/p>\n Features of the console include teaching and learning analytics, in addition to progress reporting.<\/p>\n The console also allows teachers to link their learners to their profiles, share content seamlessly, as well as the ability to provide access to e-books and other digital resources.<\/p>\n As part of its GuidED Learning Model, Learning Paths tech then takes learners on a journey through the curriculum.<\/p>\n Additionally, learning tools from Cami offer computer programs that help improve and build upon learners\u2019 mathematics, reading, literacy, science, and perceptual skills.<\/p>\n With Optimi Classroom, teachers can easily plan their lessons with access to more than 400,000 CAPS-approved and CAPS-aligned e-books from over 14,000 local and international publishers.<\/p>\n Apart from e-books, Optimi Classroom offers worksheets, past examination papers, and other multimedia \u2013 including a free e-reader, miEbooks, which enables teachers to teach anytime, anywhere.<\/p>\n The miEbooks e-reader works on laptops, tablets, and smartphones and can be downloaded from all the major app stores.<\/p>\n Teaching in the modern era finds itself at a crossroads between technological innovation and traditional methods.<\/p>\n That\u2019s why it\u2019s important that educators are fully aware of all the new methodology and tools available to them.<\/p>\n Optimi Classroom\u2019s professional development courses \u2014 through its ITSI offering \u2014 aim to upskill teachers in topics such as change management, the flipped classroom, blended learning, software and mobile-device training, and much more.<\/p>\n Its training modules are endorsed by the South African Council for Educators (SACE) and teachers can earn valuable Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points.<\/p>\n Finally, Optimi Classroom\u2019s in-house support team is there to ensure that your school\u2019s e-learning is set up correctly and runs smoothly.<\/p>\n Its flexibility means that your school can either opt for an ad-hoc support option, and use its team only when needed, or go with its monthly subscription packages for regular on-site support.<\/p>\n To find out more, visit www.itsieducation.com<\/strong><\/a> or send an email to helloclassroom@optimi.co.za<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Optimi Classroom offers expertise in both offline and online learning, to guide schools and teachers in the new era of 21st century education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":443712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[5423,15438,15436,1544,15440,15434],"class_list":["post-443708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-e-learning","tag-home-education","tag-home-learning","tag-online-learning","tag-optimi","tag-optimi-classroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443708","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443708"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443724,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443708\/revisions\/443724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Digital facilitation<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Books and resources<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Teacher training<\/strong><\/h3>\n
E-learning support<\/strong><\/h3>\n