Live interactive online classes for schools

在新型冠状病毒疫情封锁期间，学校在提供教育方面面临前所未有的挑战。我们的愿景是为他们提供一个先进的，易于使用的，技术解决方案，以提供优秀的远程教学，这将提高教育的连续性，在目前的封锁和未来的限制面对面接触。该项目还将永久性地提供新的教育交付方式，超越新冠肺炎疫情。具体而言，该项目旨在创建一个视频和音频系统，用于提供安全、可靠且适合课堂环境的实时互动在线教育课程。许多学校目前正在试用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/获取课程（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，卫报02/04/20）* 儿童和教师/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/故意的用户广播不适当的图像 * 在学生的视频背景中放大社会经济/家庭生活不平等 * 会议管理控制不适合学校的课程背景提供一个真正适合学校的解决方案，将彻底改变这个国家的远程教育的交付。我们已经提供了一个部分的解决方案- Sparkjar -我们世界领先的，师生沟通和工作流平台，提供突破性的，节省时间和加强沟通的工具。Sparkjar是为标准教学条件而设计的，但它已经为测试学校在封锁期间增加了巨大的价值，改善了与学生的沟通，资源共享，以及设置和标记作业。它目前无法提供的是一个全面提供现场互动在线课程的平台。该项目将以新的Sparkjar Smart Classes系统的形式添加该功能，这将使Sparkjar从世界领先的面对面教育解决方案转变为提供完全在线课程的解决方案。在一个名为“影响扩展”的项目下，我们将开展一系列活动，以加快我们的市场速度，并将该项目的积极影响扩展到社会和经济。

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.