TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (NRI) (TOKYO:4307), a leading provider of consulting services and system solutions, and a parent company of ASG Group Limited (Perth, Australia), today announced that NRI started to implement a trial project for developing robotics business in the field of distance education with Charters Towers School of Distance Education in Queensland, Australia.
http://www.nri.com/global/info/2018/180601_1.aspx
Queensland government delivers distance education services through seven
state schools of distance education which were established to provide a
schooling service for geographically isolated and other home based
students with limited educational choices.
Additionally, schools of
distance education provide services to enhance learning opportunities by
offering a wider range of subject choices for mainstream school students
(for example, due to limited number of Japanese language teachers,
schools of distance education can also provide Japanese language classes
for schools in such major towns as Brisbane) and providing a service for
by choice home based learners and students in a range of alternative
education centres.
In Australia, it is estimated that about from twenty thousand to twenty
five thousand students use distance education services, and Charters
Towers School of Distance Education is providing services for two
thousand and two hundred students.
At present, distance education
services provide PCs and tablets displaying texts, pictures and
generating voice with headsets. It is hard for teachers to see students’
conditions, level of understanding and environment for study, and it is
too hard for the students to talk and play with other students.
NRI will introduce a communication system with movable face-to-face
communication robots which provide the teacher and the student with free
angle views of the other and move. In other words, the robots are able
to create a virtual classroom combining schools in remote areas and
major towns, and also provide opportunities to go to their classrooms
virtually for geographically isolated and/or physically handicapped
students.
The new system makes it easy to provide classes for
group, enabling teachers to keep tabs on student’s concentration and
level of understanding from their expressions and behaviors, eventually
improves the quality of education.
Students can naturally have
irreplaceable and precious experiences in their childhood like making
friends, chitchatting on the latest fashion and so forth in break time
between classes.
To sum up, our system will bring various
communication opportunities in group life.
NRI started the trial project in June, 2018, and plans to complete it in August, 2018, aiming to go live with the service in early 2019, as well as to take the future possibility of application to the field of healthcare and agriculture into consideration.
About NRI
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services, including management consulting, system integration, and IT
management and solutions for financial, manufacturing, retail and
service industries. Clients partner with NRI to expand businesses,
design corporate structures and create new business strategies. NRI has
over 13,000 employees in its offices globally including New York,
London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore, and reports annual sales above
US$4.4 billion.
For more information, visit https://www.nri.com/global/
About Charters Towers School of Distance Education
https://charterstowerssde.eq.edu.au/Pages/Default.aspx
The
School was the first Distance Education School to open in Queensland in
1987 and still leads in the use of technology to enable communication
with our students and their tutors. We use traditional means of
communication like mail and telephone as well as audio-teleconferencing,
video, and the Internet to cross the barriers of distance and create the
bonds of a school community.
Students in the school are spread
throughout the state, country and world.
About Charters Towers Regional Council
http://www.charterstowers.qld.gov.au/
Charters
Towers is one of the most beautiful inland cities in Queensland located
130 km south-west of Townsville. Charters Towers became a gold rush town
when gold was discovered in December 1871. During the 1880s and 1890s
the town grew and prospered. It was a sign of the extent of local
business activity that one of Australia’s few regional stock exchanges
was established at Charters Towers in 1890. Today, Charters Towers is
known for its large number of elegant and historically significant
buildings most of which are located on Mosman and Gill Streets. In this
area and in the surrounding streets there are over 60 buildings of
historical significance. [source:http://www.greatbarrierreef.org/destinations/charters-towers/]
In
the 2016 Census, there were 11,876 people in Charters Towers (R) (Local
Government Areas). Of these 49.5% were male and 50.5% were female.
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people made up 8.7% of the
population.
[source:http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/LGA32310]
