Ricoh India entered into the K12 school level multimedia solutions, by lifting off Ricoh Class Tech. It is basically an elaborated solution depicted for the schools of India so to offer modern multimedia classroom with rich content. Uniquely designed, Ricoh Class Tech comprises comprehensive content of K12 segment.

Dr. Shayama Chona a renowned Educationist, Founder-President of Tamana Association and the former Principal of Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram, New Delhi, has laid the first stone of this solution. Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Chona stated, “There is a need of robust and comprehensive solution for school ecosystem of India for enabling multimedia integration inside classrooms. Taking a leap forward- The ClassTech solution enables collaborative learning that enables each student and teacher to make use of their creativity and innovation for adding to the product”.

Serving the academic needs of the students and enabling infrastructure that matches the local classrooms with global standards, Ricoh ClassTech is a digital learning solution. ClassTech is designed keeping in mind individual learning capabilities of students belonging to different age group. The classroom normally comes with PC, speakers, finger-touch interactive whiteboards, projectors, cabinets and UPS. Specially designed and tested infrastructure that can suit Indian operating condition. This solution will provide an opportunity to students for not just learning as per the curriculum, but also help them to improve overall IT competency.

Speaking on the occasion, Manoj Kumar, Executive Vice President and CEO, said, “India’s education market is estimated to be 135 billion US$ by 2020, of which the e-learning market alone will be of 7 billion US$. Ricoh is delighted to have collaboration with HCL learning and looking forward to partner with much more educational institutes in the region as well as country. Ricoh ClassTech solution is capable enough of providing students with quality education to help them for a better formation and elaboration of concept, also for academic achievements. We imagine learning to be more interactive, interesting and something beyond the chalkboard and textbooks. With the launch of Ricoh ClassTech solution, we pledge to provide the best quality education for brighter future of students.

Speaking about the partnership, Anand Sundaresan, Head- HCL Learning said,” Digischool is presently implemented across 3,500 schools in India as well as abroad, it has gained remarkable popularity in the education industry. We are very enraptured for joining hands with Ricoh as it offers us an opportunity for creating long term value in the K-12 education segment and enhance our approach in markets. HCL Learning’s solutions innovatively integrated the digital content with curriculum allowing hundreds and thousands of students across the boundaries.”

Ricoh ClassTech content library eases the job of teachers as well; they can create question banks, class test, class presentations, assessment, CCE worksheets and lesson plans utilizing over 50000 chapters mapped questions. The unique feature of lesson planner allows teachers to prepare their own interactive lesson plans, presentations from previously existing content as well as external sources and share the prepared plans with other teachers. Not only this, interactive virtual labs promotes simulated environment where students can gain learning with experiments.