As a Primary and Middle Years Distance Education School we use a variety of tools, including custom built software, to engage our students.

Interactive and Engaging Distance Education

Alice Springs, Australia

Software that enables geographically remote students to communicate with their teachers and peers, via video, audio and chat, during school lessons each day, which extends the learning that happens through traditional distance education modes, and during Home Visits and Inschool weeks. Relationships are key to learning and we do all we can to build positive partnerships that impact learning.

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What does Interactive and Engaging Education look like?

“Delivering excellence in education to remote Australia and other regions since 1951.”

School of the Air

The Alice Springs School of the Air began offering remote students access to education in 1951. Through interactive and engaging distance education, they offer a wide range of educational services and activities to isolated school children, from Pre school to Year 9, in the southern half of the Northern Territory, the extreme north of South Australia, as well as globally.

Many students live on cattle stations, in Indigenous communities, camel farms, national parks, mining camps, road houses, remote police stations and tourist ventures. With some students staying with the school from the start of their primary education all the way through until the end of Year 9.

The technology used allows students access to quality teaching, national curriculum content, personalised learning as well as feedback and assessment.

The technology has developed dramatically over the last few years. The software known as REACT (Remote Education And Conferencing Tool) was specifically written for School of the Air and is now used by the following:

- NSW Department of Education (larget education system in the southern hemisphere)
- University of the South Pacific
- Fiji Department of Education

The product is continually refined and improved to meet the needs of all students. It is the innovative nature of the software and how it enables schools to deliver over vast distances and to a large number of students with quality audio and video that make it so valuable to education.

As well as efficient technology, school of the air ensures that all students receive home visits and students join for educational gatherings such as residential trips.