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BackElisa introduces its ICT expertise to the education sector
Press release, 9 March 2009
Elisa is implementing information and communications technology solutions for the basic education unit in Finnish in Kauniainen. The Kasavuori upper-level school and the Mäntymäki lower-level school in Kauniainen have been selected as some of the leading schools in the Finnish government project focusing on information and communications technology in everyday school life. The two-year project will find out how netbooks, wireless broadband connections and various electronic services, for example, can be utilised for teaching purposes.
Elisa has supplied over 50 mobile broadband connections for the educational work at the Kasavuori school. Elisa also acts as the ICT industry expert in considering solutions which could make teaching easier.
- The school sector requires modern communications technology. Teaching and related operational models have to be continuously developed because children and teenagers are born into a digital era. We must utilise modern communications technology solutions in teaching and increase the teachers' ICT expertise level. Elisa is interested in developing the education sector and is involved in building the solutions that suit us the best, says Riitta Rekiranta, headmaster of the Kasavuori school.
The leading school project is coordinated by the Ubiquitous Information Society Advisory Board, and 12 schools have been selected to take part in the project. The project will particularly focus on the development of electronic educational content and on outlining future learning environments.
- Teachers and schools have a major responsibility in guiding the children of the digital era to meet future challenges. Competence in the digital world is becoming an increasingly important success factor in the job market of the future. Finland must definitely move in the forefront of this progress, and as the ICT industry expert, we want to be closely involved in this development work, says Pasi Mäenpää, Executive Vice President at Elisa.
- Schools must be provided with state-of-the-art tools and data communications so that mobile network-based electronic network services can be built for teaching purposes. Remote studying and various interactive solutions are increasing at a rapid speed in teaching and learning, says Mäenpää.
The basic education unit in Finnish in Kauniainen has 60 teachers and 700 pupils.
Additional information:
Pasi Mäenpää, EVP, Corporate Customers, Elisa Corporation, tel. +358 50 602 50, firstname.lastname@elisa.fi
Riitta Rekiranta, Headmaster, Kasavuori school, +358 50 597 7413, firstname.lastname@edu.kauniainen.fi