Education

...A world where children everywhere benefit from the positive power of technology to enhance learning and education

Intel has a long history of working to improve education worldwide, and its ongoing programs prepare teachers and students for success in the global economy.

• Infrastructure: After the devastation caused by the Tsunami in 2004 in Arkaduthurai near Nagapattinum, Intel has set up a school and developed community infrastructure in the township as a part of a two year community involvement project. This project aims at providing necessary skills to the children, youth, and the community in general.

• The Intel® Teach Program is a worldwide initiative to help classroom teachers learn how best to use technology to improve teaching and learning.

• In India, the Program was launched in February 2000 and has spread to 14 states nationwide. A total of 6,50,00 teachers across 32,000 schools and 1100 preservice colleges have been trained under this program

• Higher Education Programs: Intel and the University of California, Berkeley have joined hands to boost entrepreneurial know-how in emerging technology hotbeds around the world with a new curriculum development program for entrepreneurship faculty. 'Technology Entrepreneurship Education- theory to Practice'. This Entrepreneurship Education seminar provides a framework and curriculum that college faculty can adapt to their local situations. The program offers a teaching curriculum, classroom exercises, and other tools for university professors to teach the basics of entrepreneurship to engineers and scientists, creating innovative business people with cross-disciplinary skills, technical expertise, and the ability to seize market opportunities.

• Intel Corporation is supporting select universities who are involved in education surrounding advancing the move of Multi-Core architecture. Intel Corporation initiated Multi-Core research and Curriculum Development program focused on Intel Multi-Core architecture (Intel Multi-Core university program). Theses training programs by Intel Software College has been attended by over 400 faculty from nearly 200 colleges.

• The Intel® Learn Program (aimed at reaching out to children and adolescents in communities that have limited or no access to technology) has touched over 24,000 learners in over 100 240 Akshaya centres.

Content

...A world of locally relevant content and services that expand opportunities

Creating compelling applications, digital content, and services will enhance lives and expand social, economic, educational, and health opportunities around the world.

• Collaborative content programs utilize the expertise of government decision makers, universities, educators, telecommunication companies, solution developers, and NGOs to deliver applications and services that extend computer usage and improve citizens’ lives.

• By focusing on open standards (for content creation tools, hardware, software, and file formats) and by using public domain resources, these collaborative initiatives help keep costs down and make adoption easier.

• Intel’s award-winning skoool™ technology for online digital learning offers a scalable, multimedia, multi-device learning solution to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics and science. Easily adaptable to local needs, it is being used in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, and a number of Spanish-speaking countries.Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live.

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