NEC ：“Smart Talk” ushers in a new age of “Cloud Education”

Company profile
Founded in 1899, NEC is one of the Fortune Global 500 firms with its headquarter in Tokyo, Japan. As a subsidiary in China, NEC (China) Co., Ltd..makes its business range from interchangers, semiconductor, and photo-communication, mobile communication to IT solutions. It has established many wholly-owned   and joint venture enterprises.
Challenge
Information society brought revolutionary changes to education. Because of the differences in economic standard and ability of information acquisition, information technology still failed to be applied in traditional education and the traditional education has relatively low teaching efficiency. in this case, NEC needs to fully utilize the advanced technology and cooperate with government and educational organizations to cultivate teenagers master the necessary skills in the 21^st century. By doing this, NEC will fulfill its social responsibility of “enabling everyone to share the convenient services in an information society”.
Solutions
NEC is committed to digitize teaching methods by RuiKlasse™ .By building “Smart Talks” to relieve schoolwork, NEC brought changes to traditional teaching methods and opened the new age of “Cloud Education”. RuiKlasse™ is a set of teaching solutions by using pads and wireless network to create interactive teaching process.
The program involves many teaching links including before-class, in -class and after-class. By renovating interactive teaching with both soft and hard wares, the program provides convenient teaching and interactive methods. It can also record the data of studying process and intellectually analyze the learning status of students. By expanding cooperation with educational organizations, NEC has realized leap-type educational innovation featuring digitized teaching resources, intellectual teaching analysis and community-based exchanges between teachers and students.  
Achievements
At present, NEC “RuiKlasse™” has intention to be or already been applied in 30 schools in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, etc. Its practices in the three cities had benefited thousands of teachers and students. The tablet “RuiNote” has also been utilized in scales in these schools.
By merging IT, and mobile communication technology with teaching resources, methods and process, NEC realized a comprehensive information teaching program and provided a ubiquitous and effective platform for students, teachers and parents to exchange ideas. In this way, NEC contributed its efforts to realize balanced education, break regional barriers and establish a sustainable and informationized education.
Prospects
NEC endeavors to make contributions to social subjects by information and communication technology and makes efforts for a convenient society where everyone can share digital technology. Thus, “enabling everyone to share the convenient services in an information society” becomes the main CSR theme that NEC carries out in China.