Modern educational equipment development in Asia:

realities, opportunities and challenges

Beat  Jost

Executive  director of worlddidac，Association

Summary:

Modern educational equipment development in Asia: realities, opportunities and challenges.

Talk about what modern equipment means? what is important criterias? What is the difference between modern and innovative? Solar energy is the future technology of the coming generations. Designed specifically for use in the classroom and very competitively priced. Talk about User-friendly and robust, degree of Realism and Interactivity, an effective tool, innovation for furniture, Book and other materials. Learning and Communication without frontiers. Export must be more profitable than selling into the domestic market! Personality of the owner to make international business is very important! Good opportunities for Chinese companies. Build on existing network

Modern educational equipment development in Asia: realities, opportunities and challenges

What means modern equipment?

•Traditional Equipment connected with PC

•Printed materials with a CD-ROM

•Traditional materials (i.e. a book) with additional materials on the Internet

•e-learning tools

•CD-Roms (Software)

•Ergonormed furniture

•New materials for traditional products (PVC instead of wood)

•Interactive white boards

Other important criterias

•overall quality                            •Innovation:

•safety

•eco-friendliness                           design, pedagogical, technological

•pedagogic value

•ease of use

•aesthetics                                performance/cost ratio.

•handbook quality

•degree of realism in                       •Some of the criteria are

 software and                              applied  selectively,

 interactivity                              depending on the type of

•adptability                               the product.

Only modern or innovative?

•Difference between modern and innovative:

•Modern can be a copy

•Innovation is a domain of  Western countries

•We can help to tell you, what is innovation with our Award

Award: Solar energy

leXsolar-experiment system (Germany):

•Usage in school and job training in the branch of solar energy

•Sytem to learn the photovoltaic technology by making physical experiments.

•Solar energy is the future technology of the coming generations.

LeXsolar-experiments is the basis of this development.

Award: User-friendly&robust

•Data Harvest (UK)

•Easysense Flashlogger:

•Recording heart rate, testing pH and measuring acceleration.

•Designed specifically for use in the classroom and very competitively priced.

•User-friendly and robust.

Award: Degree of Realism&Interactivity

MTS Mathematisch

Technische

Software

Entwicklung GmbH

(Germany)

TOPCAM

TOPTURN

TOPMILL

Award: An effective tool

•PRODIT s.a.s. (Italy)

•Hexagon:

•Flight simulator

•Scope of the system is to provide the students a fundamentals of flight mechanics.

•It is possible to fly pre-defined aircraft or to introduce the files of aircraft.

Award: Easy to use

SMART Technologies Inc. (Canada)

•SMART Boardｪ interactive whiteboard:

•These award-winning products transform a computer and projector into an interactive tool for whole-class teaching and learning.

•Feature-rich and intuitive functionality .

Award: Innovation for furniture

•Novex AG (Switzerland)

•ScuolaBox  System

•Ergonomic awareness, new ways of learning demands on current school equipment at all levels.

•ScuolaBox is a light, mobile, inexpensive and above all future-oriented school furniture programme.

•The table can be adjusted quickly and quietly to any height from sitting to standing.

Award: Book&other materials

•Schulverlag blmv AG (Switzerland)

•Language World German:

•Language text book series is designed for grades 7 through 9.

•Set of accompanying which includes an audio CD, a DVD and a CD ROM.

Award: 10‘000 pages

•10'000 pages on the Internet about „Worlddidac Award“

•Competition for innovative products

E-University

•Establishing an e-University  between Europe and Asia

•Structure, tools and technology

•People in several countries develop educational content

•International cooperation

•Blending instructor-let training

•WBT&Hands-on training

Global Campus 21

•Learning and Communication without frontiers

•For more informations: guenter.podlacha@inwent.org

•Virtual platform for international further education and cooperation in Vietnam

Products for export/import

•Consumables&School materials

•Technical&Vocational Training

•Presentation Technolgy

•Science&Technology

•ICT

•Furniture

•Printed&Published products

Export: Challenges

•Quality and other criterias

•Language

•Investement

•US advantages against companies on their home markets?

•Different Culture

•Export must be more profitable than selling into the domestic market!

•Distributor/Partner plays a key role

•Personality of the owner to make international business is very important!

Export: Realities

•Positive:

•China export more to USA than Mexico!

•Good or best price (cheap)

•Negative:

•Chinese brands are unknown. Products with Western brands

Opportunities

•Good opportunities for Chinese companies, when•

•The product is an export product

•Follow the strategy what?, who?, where? and how? 

•Build on existing network

Thank you!