Star Schools Case Study Atul Patel Star Schools

Media Streaminga case study

PRESENTED BY:

Atulkumar PatelCEO

3rd October 2009

• Supplementary Education Solution Provider

• Grades 10, 11 & 12 (Secondary Schooling).

• Grades 1, 2 & 3 (Primary Schooling).

• Educator Mediation Programme.

• Learnership and Career Orientation Programme.

• Biggest Matric Re-write School in the country.

• Serve over 15 000 Learners, Nationally.

• Over 100 Educators, Authors and Moderators.

• English 1st & Home Language, Mathematics, Physical Science, Mathematical Literacy, Accounting, Life Sciences, Life Skills and Numeracy.

• Star Schools Methodologies and Processes are Umalusi Accredited (Quality Assurance Programme).

National Grid

about us

the questions

1. How do we have a continuous engagement with the learner?

2. How do we make this engagement as close to a contact experience?

3. What makes a contact or classroom experience irreplaceable?

4. How do we make the solution accessible to all learners?

the challenge

User Friendly

Sustainable

Portable

Engaging

Fit-for-Purpose

Cost

Bandwidth

Accessibility

Assessment & Tracking

Media Rich Content

Live Event

Self Paced Learning

Collaboration & Social Networking

architecture

Technology Application Provisioning Broadcast Media Rich Content

On-line Office Suite Live E-Books

Mobile Communication Streaming Multimedia

CD/DVD Document Management Gadgets/Widgets

application provisioning

streaming technologiesBroadcast

Live

Streaming Unicast

Host-to-Host

Expensive

Replicates Media

Multicast

Host-to-Multiple Hosts

Relatively Inexpensive

Uses Single Media Stream

Application

E-Learning

Video-on-Demand

Whiteboard Data Change

Web TV, Web Radio

unicast streaming

SourceReceiver

IP Cloud

Real Life Example:

• One hour of video encoded at 300 kb/s encoded in a 320×240 pixels window size.• If the file is stored on a server for on-demand streaming and this stream is viewed by 1 000 people at

the same time using a uincast protocol, the requirement is:

300 kb/s × 1 000 = 300 000 kb/s = 300MB of bandwidth

135GB per hour

multicast streaming

Source

Receiver

IP Cloud

Real Life Example:

• One hour of video encoded at 300 kb/s encoded in a 320×240 pixels window size.• If the file is stored on a server for on-demand streaming and this stream is viewed by 1 000 people at

the same time using a multicast protocol, the requirement is:

300 kb/s

the solution

eyes• Visual

Sensory

ears • Auditory

hands• Fine Motor

Skills

the solution

Tools

Simulations

Additional Reading

E-Book

portability roadmap

On-lineFLV, MP3

CD / DVDFLV

Jan 2010Mobile3GP

ATULKUMAR PATEL

Tel: (011) 356-7907Email: [email protected]: www.starschools.co.za

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