Cloud-based education company AcrossWorld Education has partnered with Delhi-based Go-Tech, which is the sister concern of the electrical and electronics solutions company, Gourav Roshni Limited, to launch a low cost Android tablet called ATab for the education segment. Device Specs and features: The tablet is essentially a 7” tablet running on an unknown version of Android and is powered by a 1.1 GHz processor and 512MB RAM. It has a 2GB inbuilt memory which can later be expanded to 16 GB, and features support for Wi-Fi and an external 3G USB Dongle. Users will also get three years free access to AcrossWorld's Education Bridge platform. Availability: Priced at Rs 5000, the tablet is expected to be hit the markets in the second week of March. The company said that it will be initially sourcing 10,000 tablets to the country and scaling the process in the forthcoming future. So we are assuming that the company will be initially judging the traction generated by these tablets and sourcing more tablets based on the response. EducationBridge Platform: AcrossWorld Education develops a proprietary cloud-based platform called EducationBridge that allows students and teachers from K-12 schools, colleges and universities across the world, access to open resources including open content, open educational resources, and legacy content. It also allows teachers to customize the content and upload to the platform to share their own legacy content with their students. Other platform features include the ability to bookmark, rate, recommend, and comment on open educational content. The company also offers professional services for deployment, and training for schools…
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