Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The South Australian Government today announced a three-year contract with Microsoft to deploy a new hosted email service, making instant messaging, an online calendar and the ability to share online documents, available to more than 80,000 students and staff at TAFE SA from next year.
The South Australian Employment, Training and
Further Education Minister, Michael O’Brien said today that
Microsoft’s ‘Live@edu’ email service and collaboration platform has won
the contract and will be available across all TAFE SA campuses ready
for the start of classes in 2010.
“Live@edu will give students and staff access to multiple online
communications, anytime, anywhere over the internet. Students can chat
live to one another or to a lecturer via the instant messaging service,
they can collaborate on group assignments by being able to view and
edit documents online, and they can use the hosted email service,
accessible by logging onto the internet.”
The Minister said the contract with Microsoft is underpinned by the
Skills Strategy for South Australia’s Future, which recommends greater
use of online technology to complement traditional methods of course
delivery, “thereby ensuring TAFE SA continues to meet the needs of
students into the future.
“TAFE SA will now be able to participate more in this space through
Live@edu, which also includes student or lecturer’s blogs or social
media, such as forums and photo sharing.”
According to the Minister, implementation costs of around $250,000 will
be met by the State Government and carried out by ICT services
supplier, Dimension Data.
Microsoft Australia’s public sector director, Pip Marlow, said today
that the company is seeing an “accelerating take-up of cloud based
solutions in the education sector that is being driven by student and
teacher demand to have world-class ICT tools and services at their
fingertips.”
“TAFE SA and the State Government have recognised that the needs of
students and staff are evolving and have adopted an innovative strategy
to keep South Australia at the forefront of quality education service
provision.”
The three-year contract with renewal includes a licensing for all
relevant Microsoft products at no charge, with full services of
Live@edu including email and calendar, Office Web Apps (Word, Excel
PowerPoint and OneNote), Blogs, File / document sharing, photo
publishing, video conversation, forums, message boards and shared study
areas.
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