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Al Jazeera launches educational video production website New website will provide educational material to primary and secondary schools.
A children's TV channel run by Arab network Al Jazeera is to launch a new website which will provide schools with educational video productions.
Designed in collaboration with teachers and educational experts, the Taalam.tv site will be the first educational video-on–demand online platform in the Arab world, the Peninsula newspaper of Qatar reports.
The site is aimed at primary and secondary school students and combines video productions along with pictures, sounds, illustrations, graphics and maps to aid learning across a variety of core subjects.
Mahmoud Bouneb, executive general manager of the Al Jazeera Children's Channel, told the newspaper: "We have moved from blackboard to computer education without ever using the video or television as an education tool.
"It is time to start visualising topics, as we live in a visual era. We try to support the school curriculum with as much audio-visual contents as possible."
This month an expert in education urged schools in Britain to embrace new technology in the classroom.
Speaking at the BETT conference, the world's biggest educational technology show, Professor Stephen Heppell said a failure to do so may switch children off from education.
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