CASE STUDY
About Bedu . Tech
Bedu . Tech is a company specialized in providing cloud computing , integration and educational technologies services , which emerged to meet the needs of customers to innovate their business through Digital Transformation . With a strong presence in the education and government segment , the company offers Cisco IP Solutions , Ciena Optical Solutions , Educational Technologies and Google Cloud Computing .
The work developed in the implementation of the Connected Education project may result in a national reference directive , a kind of guide on best practices for the application of technology in schools throughout Brazil .
Connected Education is designed in three phases :
1 . Induction for the development and implementation of the program with established goals to reach 44.6 % of basic education students .
2 . Expansion ( 2021 ) with the target to 85 % of basic education students and the beginning of the evaluation of results .
3 . Sustainability ( 2022 to 2024 ) reaching 100 % of basic education students , making the program a public policy .
Helber Vieira , Assistant Secretary of Basic Education , said : “ Technology has definitely become an ally of teachers and the learning process . At this time where students are returning to classes and are engaged , connectivity and digital educational resources will allow the expansion of educational time and spaces . by Bedu . Tech ) and external networks , the latter made through technical co-operation agreements between RNP and the local providers , responsible for the construction of the stretches within cities with the deployment of fiber optics from the backbone and RNP ’ s metropolitan network to the participating schools .
This stretch of the project has working guarantees ranging from 10 to 20 years .
Pilot project
The project includes about 1,000 teaching units . A group of 473 units will participate in this first phase . Bedu . Tech completed the installation of the entire internal infrastructure for full operation of the wireless network in about 325 units .
Of this total , 85 units are completely ready ( internally and externally ) to be launched , according to information from RNP .
All the steps of the project will serve as a kind of proof of concept ( PoC ) in which a group of evaluators analyzes the set of actions performed , including infrastructure analysis .
“ The student could now review classes with the help of technology at any time or the teacher can use tools for visiting a museum in Europe in a history class .”
Universalization
The pilot project , developed by MEC , is aligned to what the Connected Education Innovation Policy requires , which aims to spread the universalization of highspeed Internet access and the pedagogical use of digital technologies in basic education .
Connected Education involves a series of partners at the federal , state and municipal levels and will benefit about 266,000 students in the cities of Caicó ( RN ), Campina Grande ( PB ), Caruaru ( PE ), Juazeiro ( CE ), Mossoró ( RN ) and Petrolina ( PE ). p
THE WORK DEVELOPED IN THE IMPLEMENTATION
OF THE CONNECTED
EDUCATION PROJECT MAY RESULT IN A NATIONAL REFERENCE DIRECTIVE .
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