What is Anytime Learning?
Anytime Learning is about collaboration, creation and discovery to improve learning in the classroom, at home or wherever and whenever it suits the learner. Anytime Learning is achieved through the implementation of technology, including handheld devices, software, systems and support.
Steljes Anytime - Freedom To Discover
Steljes Anytime delivers everything needed to implement and support successful anytime learning.
Powerful devices ranging from Smartphones to UMPCs, unique software applications and rich content combined with secure mobile internet access creates a new world of opportunities in the classroom and beyond.
Developed with academics, teaching professionals and learners, this complete solution creates a stimulating yet safe environment for teachers and their learners to explore collaborate and discover.
Keeping The Focus On Learning
Effective learning relies upon delivering a challenging and exciting learning environment. The increasing use of mobile technology within society offers teachers the opportunity to bring the outside world into the classroom and to make learning a more cohesive part of children’s everyday life.
Providing every pupil with one-to-one access to a device that does many different things can extend learning beyond the classroom walls in many different ways. Pictures, sound clips, video, animation and other creative tools open new approaches that meet different learner needs. Linking devices between learners fosters small group collaboration and peer learning while personal ownership of a device has been proven to encourage a greater sense of responsibility.
Great teaching will always inspire and motivate, however the needs of learners differ. Tapping into this generation’s appetite for technology, enabling access when they want has been shown to improve attendance, engagement and performance.
A Child Centred World
Steljes Anytime provides safe and secure access to the mobile internet, using a BECTA accredited filter. It also gives learners the freedom to explore a rich collection of resources from a wide range of content partners in formats suited to mobile devices through the Steljes Anytime network. This is a protected environment where all material is appropriate and isolated from interference. In addition, learners are able to collaborate and exchange ideas with their peers via award winning monitored social networking.
In the classroom, devices support Wi-Fi to enable connection to the school network and teachers to push content to individual learners or the whole class.
Putting It All Together
Steljes Anytime offers teachers a truly modular and upgradeable path to anytime learning. With many years experience from pilots across the country, Steljes has combined the best of breed tools and wrapped them into a scalable package that can take teachers and learners on the journey from simple e-books to collaborative working out of school, safely and pragmatically. After all, technology should never get in the way of teaching and every new piece of equipment brings its own challenges.
Steljes Anytime Offers:
| • | Unlimited data airtime to provide genuine freedom to discover from almost any location and at any time. |
| • | A comprehensive and evolving range of devices rigorously tested and selected to meet the specific needs of teachers and learners within an anytime learning environment. These range from Smartphones and PDAs to UMPCs. These devices offer a range of features to suit a variety of educational situations and deliver different objectives. Steljes Anytime has been designed to help schools and colleges to select the right device for them and avoid costly technology mistakes. |
| • | A suite of software applications that help to create and support an effective anytime learning experience including classroom management, collaboration and secure social networking solutions for use within the anytime learning environment. |
| • | Access to learning content that provides background resources and materials in a safe and secure environment. |
| • | Warranty and insurance (if required) that provides peace of mind. |
| • | Training and support services allowing schools to set up an anytime learning environment quickly and easily and then maintain that across the school year, enhancing and expanding as they grow more comfortable with the technology. |
A Flexible Investment
Anytime learning shouldn’t be about time spent figuring out how to get the systems to work, it should be about opening new learning frontiers and giving students and teachers the freedom to discover and learn anytime in the way that works best for them.
As a comprehensive solution, Steljes Anytime is offered in a number of different packages, dependent upon device selection, software, content and support services.
As new technologies continue to emerge Steljes Anytime will critically review these and update options and pricing. Advice and guidance on anytime learning can be obtained on 08450 724 800 or by emailing anytime@steljes.co.uk.