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India's ISRO Selects ViewCast Video Cards for Educational Satellite |
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DALLAS, Dec. 14, 2005/Satnews Daily/ — The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has selected Dallas-based ViewCast Corporation's Osprey-230 video cards as part of an expansive program for interactive distance learning and streaming video through its educational satellite, EDUSAT.
The EDUSAT satellite enables nation-wide distance learning by interfacing with video from each school through a system that includes an Osprey-230 at each school site. The ISRO program currently covers more than 1,000 schools and is expected to expand to a network of 10,000 schools within the next three years.
A. Bhaskaranarayana, program director of Indian National Satellite Systems, said satellite technology lends itself to interactive learning and with ViewCast's help, India hope to bring learning opportunities to thousands of children and adults in remote towns and villages.
EDUSAT beams local language instructional programs and employs digital interactive classrooms to address illiteracy caused by a lack of trained teachers in rural India. For example, one interactive program lets students send video questions to any teacher in any connected classroom, anywhere in India, via the Osprey-230 streaming video over the EDUSAT satellite. The teacher then returns answers through EDUSAT.
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