Vodacom’s education solutions help teachers and students maximise their learning potential.
In South Africa, thousands of students face the harsh reality of unequal access to quality education. For many, the path to academic success is obstructed by outdated resources, overcrowded classrooms, and a lack of basic learning tools such as libraries or science labs.
Education faces some tough hurdles. But digital learning tools, supported by a nationwide mobile network, are helping make quality education available to everyone.
Vodacom’s e-Learning platform is enabling students and educators to access, create, and engage with digital learning content. It provides easy access to CAPS-aligned materials, ensuring that learners can use high-quality resources at school and at home.
The Power of e-Learning
Vodacom’s e-Learning platform delivers digitised educational content for students from Grade R to Grade 12. The e-learning platform stores over 35,000 e-curriculum-aligned content resources, encompassing key subjects including:
- Mathematics
- Physical sciences
- Languages
- Life Skills
- Literacy
- Accounting
- Geography, and
- History
Educators can create dynamic lessons, schedule remote learning sessions, and monitor learner progress. Learners can access curriculum-aligned multimedia content, including videos, animations, and picture slideshows, as well as past papers to help them prepare.
Educators and learners access a server at the school with their tablets and smartphones, downloading content via the local Wi-Fi network. Away from the school, they can do the same with mobile data, with the cost reverse-billed to the school or zero-rated on certain Vodacom SIM cards.
The system is designed for content to stay on devices once downloaded, ensuring that students have access to their studies even if they don’t have connectivity. This approach also keeps data transmissions small and manageable.
Connected Learning for Everyone
Whether used as a supplement to existing teaching or as a full digital learning environment, the e-learning solution is flexible, scalable, and tailored to the unique needs of South African schools.
It includes a Content Management System (CMS) and a Learner Management System (LMS) hosted on a local school server. In case something happens to the school server, the contents are synced at the Vodacom Data Centre, keeping all information safe in case.
To help schools, educators, and learners stay connected, Vodacom uses its capacity as one of South Africa’s best and largest mobile networks. It offers a range of solutions, including Business Internet LTE, Business Internet DSL, Business Internet Satellite, and Business Internet Wireless.
Vodacom e-Learning also provides specialised training and technical support to help educators and administrators make the most of the platform.
Education is now accessible from anywhere on smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers, and is available in multiple languages.
In a world where digital transformation is reshaping every industry, Vodacom’s e-Learning platform is helping schools go digital. From cities to towns to rural villages, it makes quality education more accessible, engaging, and equitable, closing the education gap and empowering the next generation of South Africans.
