I’ve reported in the past about Microsoft’s commitment to education in foreign countries with a variety of programs to help bring PC training to student. Now Microsoft in a working relationship with the Russian Federal Agency for Education is set to provide copies of Windows 7 to 54,000 schools in Russia.
The free delivery in the Russian school system of Windows 7 was guided by the desire to give students and teachers the opportunity to learn and work on the most modern software. This commitment is to have final delivery by the end of April 2010. Copies are to be installed not only on the computers belonging to the schools themselves, but also on the home PCs of teachers. The commitment to 54,000 schools is noteworthy. Delivery will be by mail to assure that schools that don’t have an Internet connection.
Other training materials will include a localized version of Windows 7 and one in the Tatar language for the new academic year 2010-2011. Schools in the program will receive a DVD with teaching materials for pupils, teachers and school administrators. There is also free software and a set of interactive training courses on Microsoft Windows 7, Office 2007, Internet services, and other technologies in the education process.
The software is expected to expire by December 2010, meaning that it will no longer work. But in the meantime, students and teachers will be able to use the software and the teaching material. Presumably at the end of the time period the Russian Federal Agency for education will make a commitment to purchase the licenses to continue to work with the software, or to work out some deal with Microsoft for the continued use.
This commitment to Russian education goes back to December 2007, when Microsoft signed an agreement with the Russian Federal Agency on Education, to offer schools in the country software and updates. The First Aid deal is scheduled to expire at the end of 2010.
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The free delivery in the Russian school system of Windows 7 was guided by the desire to give students and teachers the opportunity to learn and work on the most modern software. This commitment is to have final delivery by the end of April 2010. Copies are to be installed not only on the computers belonging to the schools themselves, but also on the home PCs of teachers. The commitment to 54,000 schools is noteworthy. Delivery will be by mail to assure that schools that don’t have an Internet connection.
Other training materials will include a localized version of Windows 7 and one in the Tatar language for the new academic year 2010-2011. Schools in the program will receive a DVD with teaching materials for pupils, teachers and school administrators. There is also free software and a set of interactive training courses on Microsoft Windows 7, Office 2007, Internet services, and other technologies in the education process.
The software is expected to expire by December 2010, meaning that it will no longer work. But in the meantime, students and teachers will be able to use the software and the teaching material. Presumably at the end of the time period the Russian Federal Agency for education will make a commitment to purchase the licenses to continue to work with the software, or to work out some deal with Microsoft for the continued use.
This commitment to Russian education goes back to December 2007, when Microsoft signed an agreement with the Russian Federal Agency on Education, to offer schools in the country software and updates. The First Aid deal is scheduled to expire at the end of 2010.
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