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5 companies you’ve never heard of that will transform South African schools

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The Training Room Online

While the other two platform players – ITSI and MIB – primarily develop for schools, Cape Town’s The Training Room Online has a far broader business model which also covers staff training for corporates as well as digitising textbooks for primary and secondary schools.

Based on that experience, The Training Room is about to launch a web platform/app specifically for SA schools called Wozzl.com. The firm is well-connected with publishers, both CAPS-aligned local ones and internationals like Pearson, Oxford and MacMillan.

The Training Room’s Kirsty Chadwick says that once complete, Wozzl.com will be both a curated collection of resources and a learning platform which can be used to organise lessons and set assessments. Right now, she’s looking at incorporating one of Moodle, edX or Clevva for the classroom functions – and again Clevva was not developed with schools in mind but comes from the corporate training space with which she’s familiar.

The really interesting part of Wozzl.com, however, is that The Training Room is looking to reduce the cost of textbooks for children and their families by even more than they can already achieve simply by switching to digital. Wozzl.com will be free to use and available offline, and at the moment the plan is to create a ‘pay for what you use’ model where students will be able to download single chapters rather than whole textbooks as required.

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