Pearson, the media group behind Financial Times, publishing house Penguin, and education brands like Longman, and Prentice Hall, has launched a new tablet-based education solution for schools in India, MX Touch. According to the company, the platform will give a greater number of school children, access to more effective personalised and collaborative digital learning with rich digital content, 3D animations, quizzes and videos. The MX Touch solution is compliant with the school syllabus and comes bundled with tablets at various price points - MX Touch variants are available in 7 and 10 inch tablets from the company's preferred tablet manufacturers - the 7inch will be priced under Rs 7000, while the 10inch bundled pack will cost Rs 12000. The solution also allows parents to monitor the academic progress of their children, with access to assignments, difficult lessons covered during school hours and archived assessments and tests, the company added. MX Touch will be available in three versions: MX Touch – ActiveTouch, MX Touch – DigitALly and MX Touch – Ultimate. - MX Touch – ActiveTouch offers pedagogically sound, graded digitised textbooks already loaded on the tablet. ActiveTouch offers four subjects — English, Science, Mathematics and Hindi — for classes 3 to 8. It features animations, videos from BBC Motion Gallery, and interactive activities and worksheets. - MX Touch – DigitALly offers DigitALly Student Edition, another edition of Pearson’s patented teaching tool. DigitALly includes animations, videos, self-explanatory diagrams, worksheets, quizzes and several hours of experiments for different subjects. MX Touch – DigitALly SE (student edition) can house an entire…
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