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1 EDUCATION PLATFORMS

2 EDUCATION PLATFORMS YOUR TECHNOLOGY-ENABLED PROVIDER Xchanging is a technology-enabled provider of business processing, technology and procurement services. As a leading international outsourcing specialist with operations in 11 countries, our customers span the globe across multiple industry sectors. The digital age is transforming how students learn and how teachers teach. The education sector is evolving at great pace, driven in part, by huge advancements in technology and a digital culture which significantly impact all aspects of our everyday life. Students now use technology more than ever to collaborate with fellow students, and to consume and create content in ways that meet their educational goals. Teachers are turning to online resources to build exciting, engaging and dynamic lesson plans that reflect how students in the 21st century interact with content. School enrolment is rising across the globe, and is contributing to the shifting education landscape. Schools and other academic institutions must ensure they have the right systems and resources in place to support and exploit this progression. Technology has the power to transform the education ecosystem - creating efficiency, excellence and enhanced learning environments. It will ensure greater collaboration between school communities and equal learning opportunities, regardless of social, economic or geographical limitations. WHO WE ARE Xchanging is a technology-enabled provider of business processing, technology and procurement services. As a leading international outsourcing specialist with operations in 11 countries, our customers span the globe across multiple industry sectors. In order to meet the IT needs of this diverse and demanding customer base, our dedicated staff of more than 8,000 employees ensures complex business challenges are met with the right industry and technical expertise. Through its innovation and business and technology capabilities, Xchanging adds value to its customers businesses by enabling them to deliver operational efficiencies and improved quality of service. WHAT WE DO Xchanging recognises the need for more effective ways of learning to stay ahead of rapidly evolving teaching environments. From its delivery centres in Malaysia, India and the UK, Xchanging has the capability to deliver Education Platforms across the globe. As the leading cloud-based education service provider in Asia, it runs the world s largest education account for the Malaysia Ministry of Education, with more than 11 million users connected to the School in the Cloud platform, recognised as 1Bestarinet. Xchanging has successfully achieved Malaysia s MOE s goal to deliver technology services to 10,000 schools, 5.9 million students, 4.5 million parents and more than 500,000 teachers.

3 HOW WE HELP EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM - SCHOOL IN THE CLOUD A comprehensive technology-enabled solution that includes a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), School Management System, an EDU Store - content from premium education service providers - as well as cloud hosting, network connectivity and analytics to create a holistic, end-to-end learning solution. VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT (VLE) Xchanging s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) enables students, teachers and parents to collaborate on educational projects in a shared, single and safe environment. In partnership with the award-winning Frog virtual learning platform, Xchanging aggregates, curates, publishes and maintains global educational content. Crowd-sourced content from trusted partners and channels (e.g National Geographic Education, NASA, The British Council, TED Ed, Khan Academy) is verified and validated by country specific teacher communities in order to leverage the best educational materials from around the world. Xchanging then publishes and maintains the content to empower teachers to create and share learning programmes within controlled environments. The VLE augments ability-based learning initiatives through self-paced learning anytime, anywhere, and promotes peer-topeer support through a single platform for all schools. VLE highlights: Standardised cloud-based platform enables cost effective deployment. Eliminates digital divide by creating equal access to education regardless of rural or urban confines. Centralised management and monitoring for schools and education authorities/ministries. Centralised communication from teachers, schools and education departments to parents. Promotes peer-to-peer learning and teaching to encourage collaboration and drive educational standards and excellence. Integrates with Google Applications (word processing, presentations and spreadsheets) with no license cost or high computing power necessary. SCHOOL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Xchanging s School Management System (SMS) provides efficient and transparent management and administration of school activities. The SMS provides standardised and centralised administration that helps facilitate more effective communication between education departments and schools, as well as tighter governance. Features include staff and student management (attendance, discipline, reports, counselling, absence management); resource and facilities management (teacher and pupil); and school activities management (timetables, curriculum and examinations). SMS highlights: We have Mobile App version available too known as SPS Lite. This version hold limited modules like taking student attendance, notification and few critical dashboards Highly intuitive and user-friendly interface with easy to navigate links. Fully customisable application to tailor to individual school requirements. Supports compliance through built-in processes for government and board regulations. Identity management via biometrics and digital certificates to ensure secure data access to every individual in the school. Analytics and reporting engine to support evaluation with meaningful and actionable insight to all stakeholders. Unified directory management maintains a single directory for all contact information (students, parents, teachers, service providers, education departments etc). SMS leverages predictive analytics that analyses student data and discovers learning patterns. This insight empowers educators to identify at-risk students who could benefit from improved academic performance, and consequently helps teachers make important operational decisions regarding effective learning mechanisms for those students.

4 EDU STORE Xchanging s EDU Store is an online repository of multimedia teaching and learning resources from trusted partners and publishers around the world, including National Geographic, YouTube, Khan Academy and The British Council. Content includes ebooks, images, audio, video, applications and educational games, which are crowd-sourced and curated by Xchanging, and then validated and verified by teaching professionals. By leveraging the best, free educational content available, the EDU Store helps reduce spend and optimise school budgets. EDU highlights: Standardised API for third-party content providers. Supports digital media. Enclosed and secure, and fully integrated with VLE. Integrated with YouTube, Flickr and other free user-generated content providers. Available on both browser and tablet app versions INFRASTRUCTURE, CONNECTIVITY, SUPPORT AND DEVICES As part of its aim to reduce the digital divide in education, School in the Cloud offers subsidised Google Chromebooks and Android tablets, as well as specially designed Wi-Fi networks for schools to promote inclusive learning. Xchanging leverages its data centre, cloud hosting and virtualization expertise to enable reduced deployment complexity and IT operation overheads. It also ensures reduced risks in data security breaches and minimal investment required for disaster recovery services. The Education Platform is designed for easy deployment, and a tailored transformation programme and training is offered to all establishments to ensure seamless integration in the live learning environment. The aim is to inspire and empower whole school communities to exploit the full benefits of School in the Cloud.

5 Xchanging recognises the need for more effective ways of learning to stay ahead of rapidly evolving teaching environments. From its delivery centres in Malaysia, India and the UK, Xchanging has the capability to deliver Education Platforms across the globe.

6 BUSINESS BENEFITS OUR CAPABILITIES AND OFFERINGS Xchanging s capabilities and offerings of Education Platforms are only half the story. How these translate to real customer benefits is what sets Xchanging apart. ABILITY BASED LEARNING Key to success for enhancing teaching and learning by enabling students, empowering teachers and engaging parents. COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT Promotes better collaboration between different divisions and departments to drive efficiency across the organisation. ADMINISTRATION AND CONTROL Ensures tighter governance and improved transparency between schools and education departments. TEACHER TRAINING Promotes peer-to-peer collaboration and knowledge sharing among teaching staff to combat skills gaps, teacher absenteeism or insufficient teacher-pupil ratios. BUDGETARY CONTROL Drives cost savings by leveraging free education content and low-cost licensing solutions, as well as exploiting cloud technology which offers lower IT operation overheads. KEY FACTS Worlds first cloud-based education platform and the largest education provider in Asia - delivering technology services to 10,000 schools, 5.5 million students, 4.5 million parents and more than 500,000 teachers. Deep domain knowledge enables advisory services not just technical expertise. Six-sigma certified delivery team supports objectives with minimal risk. Integrates infrastructure, software applications and educational content with full maintenance support for inclusive learning, anywhere, any time. Open source technology keeps Xchanging abreast of the latest technologies. The Walbrook Building 25 Walbrook London EC4N 8AQ UK Telephone +44 (0) info@xchanging.com Website linkedin.com/company/xchanging facebook.com/xchangingplc 2014 XCHANGING 0120/OCT.14