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1 1 Education services Education s for the Indian Market

2 OUR FOCUS YOUR GROWTH The Indian education sector is estimated to reach 6,02,410 crore by FY15 on the back of what is expected to be a strong demand for quality in education, according to India Ratings, a Fitch Group company. The emergence of India as a global centre of an educated and skilled workforce has driven the need to provide quality education for all, irrespective of social and economic disparities and geographical limitations. The Government is focusing on expanding the existing system to include the marginalised sections, provide equal learning opportunities, and drive excellence and enhancement in the quality of teaching and learning in schools. Which is why, in the budget, the Government has allocated 500 crore to introduce new training tools to motivate and train teachers. OUR Solutions YOUR Benefits Technology, especially e-learning, is helping the Indian Government bridge the digital divide between students in rural and urban areas. In fact, the Government through schemes such as the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology, the National Programme on Technology Enhanced and ICT@Schools is leveraging technology for distributing video and web-based course content as well as offline multimedia educational content. The Government has allocated 100 crore for setting up virtual classrooms as Communication Linked Interface for Cultivating Knowledge and online courses in the budget. and parents through curated crowdsourcing. In addition to saving time, it also provides centralised and controlled content distribution. Through Edu Store, we provide the students access to a wide range of rich, informative educational content including e-books, articles, worksheets and online tests. For this, we have partnered with leading content providers such as British Council, TED-Ed, Khan Academy, National Geographic, NASA and many more. To provide error-free content, we ensure that the country-specific teacher community verifies and validates the crowd sourced content. This is then published to allow teachers to create and share learning programmes within a controlled environment. Address the shortage of trained teachers, especially in schools in rural India. Most of these schools are challenged with one teacher addressing learning requirements of multiple grades. According to a survey conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education, there is a shortage of 1.2 million teachers in schools across India. Our award winning School in the Cloud, is a comprehensive technology enabled solution including VLE, Cloud Hosting, Connectivity, Chrome Books, curated content and school management information system. Our solutions help create cloud based virtual classrooms in remote areas to connect students to physical classrooms in real-time. This addresses the shortage of trained teachers. Offered as an Education-as-a-Service, the Government can select an individual service module addressing their particular educational environment requirements, or build a complimentary end-to-end services solution. Promote device independence, especially in a high-growth economy such as India where various types of devices are used for accessing content. By partnering with manufacturers, we enable device independent content accessibility, thus allowing students to consume content at their convenience. We make sure they never stop learning! Governments and educational institutions have trusted Xchanging, globally, to transform their education systems and revolutionise the quality of education to the generation of tomorrow. At Xchanging, we recognise and support the complexities of teaching and learning environments, especially in a growing economy like India. With our education platform, School in the Cloud, India can leverage a next-generation comprehensive school and learning management system to help: Offer inclusive education to bridge the rural-urban divide and enhance the quality of education, especially in rural India, where there is an urgent need to create a platform for facilitating easy access to high quality educational content to students. Xchanging s education platform solution, School in the Cloud, integrates infrastructure, software applications and educational content with full maintenance support; offering anytime, anywhere learning. From the demands of cloudbased software supporting online and distance learning, to the individual network connections of students on-campus, we deliver software and network services with high resilience and unlimited capacity. We leverage our interactive Virtual Environment (VLE) to aggregate, curate, publish and maintain educational content. In addition, we can also help foster collaboration between teachers from rural and urban India for educational content creation. This fosters collaborative learning and bridges the digital divide between rural and urban India. Furthermore, we also create an online education community to increase interaction between students, irrespective of location. This enables students to widen their breadth of knowledge and equips them with the skills required to thrive in the 21st century. Edu Store, Xchanging s online store (integrated with VLE), provides quality educational content for students, teachers School in the Cloud 2015 TRADITIONAL Classroom: TIME-BOUND TEACHING Cloud Storage Edu Store VIRTUAL CLASSROOM: ANYTIME, ANYWHERE LEARNING Tablets, Smartphones and Chromebooks Collaborative Connectivity Curated Content School Management System Virtual Analytics Flipped Classroom 2 Education services xchanging.com Education services 3

3 OUR ASSETS YOUR ADVANTAGE We deliver a fully integrated end-to-end education platform Our extensive experience and capabilities in the education sector helps us understand the requirements of all stakeholders, thus enabling us to apply our end-to-end technology solutions. At Xchanging, we use open-source learning platform for developing low cost licensing solutions for maturing economies. Self-Sustaining Ecosystem Collaborating to form a community with students, teachers and parents Engaging parents in the child s educational journey Allowing teachers to collaborate and exchange ideas Empowering students to target limitless boundaries of knowledge Tablets and Smartphones DEVICES Chromebook Virtual Edu Store PLATFORM Sentiment Analysis OPERATION MANAGED SERVICES School Management System Analytics Centralised Cloud-Based Offering a centralised School Management System Facilitating the Government to effectively monitor and manage schools Developing a framework for collaboration Providing a platform to centralise learner-generated content Application Presention Session Transport Network Datalink Physical INFRASTRUCTURE AND CONNECTIVITY App Developers + Network Integrators Xchanging Our Education solution, School in the Cloud (a comprehensive school and learning management system), provides learning beyond boundaries, enabling students, empowering teachers and engaging parents. In addition to our industry-leading education solution which provides 24/7 learning, we also manage and maintain a central data repository of students, teachers and administrative staff. We offer School Management System and capabilities around cloud hosting and network solutions (including design, installation, implementation and maintenance). We provide scalable learning solutions at every level, including managed campus network services to leading universities and colleges in the UK. We are trusted to run the largest education account in the world-1bestarinet, a Virtual Environment (VLE) initiative, rolled out by the Ministry of Education Malaysia in partnership with Xchanging Malaysia. The initiative is delivering technology services to 10,000 schools, 5.5 million students, over 500,000 teachers and 4.5 million parents. This has made Malaysia the first country in the world to deliver a single, nationwide cloud-based learning platform via high-speed 4G Internet connectivity. At Xchanging, we want to assist the Ministry of Human Resource and Development and the State Governments in India transform the Indian education sector through a centralised cloud-based platform and creating a collaborated education community. We aim to improve the overall teaching and learning experience for all students in India, by leveraging our proven and scalable expertise in cloud-based education transformation. Our aim is to help the Indian Government make the shift from industrialised teaching to ability-based learning. SCHOOL IN THE CLOUD: CHANGING THE EDUCATION ECOSYSTEM Mobile Network and WIFI Set-up Cross-Border Collaborated System CONTENT AND COMMUNITY Cost-Efficient and Quality Regulated System Enabling inter-school collaboration Using curated content and same learning platform to share the best resources Gamification Flipped Classroom Collaborative Social Portals Xchanging TV Offering VLE Providing a standardised learning platform thereby improving quality of education delivery Enabling education community to leverage and share best practices Providing access to formal and informal learning resources Ensuring collaboration and knowledge sharing Shifting focus to Ability-Based Offering standardised learning platform Providing interactive and engaging content, anytime anywhere Faciliating online collaboration and knowledge sharing with other teachers (through teaching platforms) Delivering effective teaching methodology Providing 24/7 support for educators to resolve students queries Offering a platform that helps in providing assessment results (by sourcing data from multiple channels) Offering a platform for parent-teacher interactions Informing the parent of their child s progress by sending regular updates Allowing the parent better visibility on their child s learning potential Providing easy-to-use tools and interfaces for parents to access school curriculum and results 4 Education services xchanging.com Education services 5

4 platform in Malaysia The world s first nationwide cloud-based virtual learning platform over 4G, created through our partnership with YTL and hosting a range of educational software. BIG COMMUNITY Xchanging was able to prove its ability to deliver large-scale transformation strategies of national importance through existing customer and partner relations. We needed a partner that would bring together five key elements to make this work connectivity, VLE, platform, devices and content. This is normally a challenge for service providers, but Xchanging offered us end-to-end integration. Yang Berhormat Tuan P Kamalanathan s/o P. Panchanathan, Deputy Minister of Education, Malaysia 5.5 million students FREE CONTENT 0.5 million teachers 11 million users A new economic model to deliver LEARNING to schools CROWD-SOURCED CURATION 10,000 schools Enable teachers to create content Empower students to rate the content Parents can access, contribute and engage 4.5 million parents RATING USER FEEDBACK A COMPLETE END-TO-END SOLUTION OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE AND FREE CONTENT THE LARGEST PROJECT OF ITS KIND IN THE WORLD Our partnership with YTL allowed us to deliver the world s first cloud-based virtual learning platform over 4G. Competitors in this space principally offer point solutions. By contrast, our customer was able to source network content, capacity, connectivity and security from a single vendor: Xchanging. The majority of solutions in the education market are proprietary, high cost options. Ours is based on open-source software and free, crowdsourced content. This differentiates us and offers increased value for the customer. Our technology and innovation is the power underpinning 1BestariNet, the nationwide project undertaken by the Malaysian Government and YTL, offering every parent, student and teacher an ID allowing them access to a variety of tools to make learning a more exciting and interesting experience. ECONOMIES OF SCALE COST OFFLOADING (FROM CROWDSOURCING) IMPROVED QUALITY 6 Education services xchanging.com Education services 7

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