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e-Learning For Kids to make new courseware
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Pune, Feb.27 Aptara, Inc, a player in content transformation technology, today announced that a group of its employees working in Pune have helped expand educational opportunities for nearly 5 lakh children around the world. These children use courses available from e-Learning for Kids, a non-profit organisation dedicated to fun and free learning on the internet.
Some of the initiatives include developing new courseware, providing technical support and administration for the portal. In addition, employees test the courseware on different platforms including Windows and Linux. They are also expanding the e-Learning for Kids portal by having content available in three new languages – French, Portuguese and Spanish. The site now offers more than 80 courses in English to students, parents and teachers and plans to make the new languages available in the coming months.
Kids aged between 5 and 12 can use e-Learning to strengthen basic skills in reading, math, science, keyboarding, English, health and life skills. A subset of these courses are also available pre-loaded on computers or can be downloaded when internet access is not feasible or too expensive.
There are more than 150,000 children using the e-Learning platform, about half of whom are in the US. Aptara has also distributed courseware on CD-ROMs to 95 schools across the globe, sent 1,500 computers with EFK courseware to schools in the developing world and have collaborated with non-governmental organisations, including Close the Gap, To Be Worldwide and Shiksha. .
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