Live interactive online classes for schools

在新冠疫情封锁期间，学校在教育供应方面面临前所未有的挑战。我们的愿景是为他们提供一种尖端的、易于使用的技术解决方案，以提供出色的远程教学，这将在当前的封锁和未来面对面接触的限制期间增强教育的连续性。它还将在2019冠状病毒病条件下永久提供宝贵的教育新方法。具体来说，这个项目是为了创建一个视频和音频系统，提供实时互动的在线教育课程，这是安全的，可靠的，适合课堂环境。许多学校目前正在试验现有的视频会议软件。现有软件不适合在学校环境中提供在线课程的原因有很多，包括潜在的恶意攻击/访问课程（如最近的新闻报道，如BBC 10/04/20， Sky News 10/04/20， TES 02/04/20和03/04/20）；儿童与教师/恶意行为者之间的无监督视频通信*缺乏数据安全性，包括违反GDPR的欧盟外传输*意外/故意用户播放不适当的图像（例如不适当的服装或背景）*放大学生视频背景中的社会经济/家庭生活不平等*会议管理控制不适合学校课程环境提供真正适合环境的解决方案设计特别是学校将彻底改变这个国家的远程教育方式。我们已经提供了部分解决方案——Sparkjar——我们世界领先的师生交流和工作流程平台，提供突破性的、节省时间和增强沟通的工具。它在试验台学校得到了全面实施，我们已经有了预先存在的、令人兴奋的和现实的计划来大规模推广。Sparkjar是为标准教学条件设计的，但在封锁期间，它已经为试验台学校增加了巨大的价值，改善了与学生的沟通、资源共享、布置和批改作业。它目前无法提供的是一个实时互动在线课程的完整交付平台。该项目将以新的Sparkjar智能课程系统的形式添加该功能，该系统将使Sparkjar从世界领先的面对面教育解决方案转变为完全在线课程的交付。在“扩大影响”项目下，我们将进行一系列活动，以加快我们的产品上市速度，并将项目的积极影响扩大到社会和经济。

Schools are facing unprecedented challenges in education provision during Covid-19 lockdown. Our vision is to provide them with a cutting-edge, easy-to-use, technical solution to deliver excellent remote teaching which will enhance continuity of education during the current lockdown and future restrictions on face-to-face contact. It will also permanently provide valuable new methods of education delivery beyond Covid-19 conditions.Specifically, this project is for the creation of a video and audio system for delivering live interactive online educational classes which are safe, secure, and appropriate for a classroom context.Many schools are currently experimenting with existing video conferencing software. There are numerous reasons why no existing software is fit-for-purpose for delivering online lessons in a school context, including potential for:* malicious attacks/access to lessons (as in recent press reports e.g. BBC 10/04/20, Sky News 10/04/20, TES 02/04/20 & 03/04/20, Guardian 02/04/20)* unsupervised video communication between children and teachers/malicious actors* lack of data security including out-of-EU transfers breaching GDPR* accidental/intentional user broadcast of inappropriate images (e.g. inappropriate attire or background)* amplification of socio-economic/home-life inequalities in students' video backgrounds* conference management controls not appropriate for school lessons contextProviding a genuinely context-appropriate solution designed specifically for schools will revolutionise delivery of remote education in this country.We are already delivering a partial solution -- Sparkjar -- our world-leading, teacher-student communication and workflow platform, providing ground-breaking, timesaving and communication-enhancing tools. It is fully implemented in testbed schools and we have pre-existing, exciting and realistic plans to roll-out at scale.Sparkjar was designed for standard teaching conditions, but is already adding great value for testbed schools during lockdown, improving communication with students, resource sharing, and setting and marking assignments. What it cannot currently provide is a platform for full delivery of live interactive online lessons. This project is to add that functionality in the form of a new Sparkjar Smart Classes system which will take Sparkjar from being a world-leading solution for face-to-face education, to also being so for the delivery of fully online lessons.Under a project "Extension for Impact", we will undertake a series of activities to increase our speed to market and extend the positive impacts of the project to society and the economy.