Online publishing solutions provider, Pressmart, has launched a mobile learning solution for schools, centred around tablets. Calling it MOCA or Mobile Learning Classroom Application, the company has deployed the solution at a school in Manila, Philippines, and it appears that it might target Indian schools in the future. The solution is based on cloud storage and would allow schools and students to store and access books, study modules, assessments, and notices via a tablet. It would also offer student, teacher, parent and admin modules to regulate the student's school activity. The company claims that following the deployment at La Salle Green Hills (LSGH) a school in Manila, Philippines, nearly 4,000 students from Grade 1 to Grade 12, will use an 8.9-inch tablet from Samsung based Google's Android 3.2 Honeycomb mobile operating system and Pressmart's MOCA application. The project is in its initial stage, in which the school will replace text books with tablets. While Pressmart which primarily digitizes content from media companies – in the form of epapers, magazines, claims to have 600 Publishers in 33 different languages from 61 countries on board its cloud based publishing platform, it would be interesting to see how it deals with book publishers, and how it prices content. If digital books turn out to be more expensive than physical textbooks, it won't be viable for most schools in India. Other players focusing on digitization of education In India, e-learning startup Edutor Technologies, had also introduced an education solution called ‘Augmented Classroom Solution (ACS)’, offering learning material including digitized textbooks, multimedia material,…
