Home School Services:
Red Oak Academy provides direct online K-12 instruction services to
home school families. Students can see the teacher and hear the
teacher for all of their courses in virtual classroom settings.
Regular, Gifted and Special Needs Students can use the ROA
curriculum to make up lost time or work ahead at their own pace. ROA
has developed the unique reputation for being able to facilitate
college enrollment for students who might have thought that college
attendance was not possible.
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Direct Online Instruction: Online K-12 Instruction can be
administered in restricted settings to students who may require
separation from the mainstream population. ROA provides just such a
solution for public and private schools at a fraction of the cost of
on-site personnel! School Campuses can make use of Red Oak Academy's
morning and afternoon class schedule to provide BOTH in-house and
home-bound delivery. Students may attend daily classes online or
work at their own pace, independently. Attendance in these live
multicasts is documented electronically during the class. Missed
classes may be viewed at anytime from the Red Oak website. Written
Assignments are submitted by e-mail or fax and receive
individualized attention from highly qualified online instructors.
Using this feedback, the student prepares the next assignment. At
the end of the course, the student takes a final exam. Exams are
monitored by parents at home and by school staff on campus.
Custom Course Content: Red Oak Academy began providing direct online instruction in August 1995. Over the years, ROA staff have prepared hundreds of online courses. In January, 2003 ROA began making courses available from PBS Adult Learning Services to other distance learning services and businesses around the world. ROA has also prepared courses for professional license renewals for medical and legal personnel. ROA is now accepting contracts from engineering and industrial enterprise to convert or custom tailor any course content they desire to place online for delivery at-a-distance. Most recently, ROA has created a series of courses on International Trade Negotiations. These courses will be used by World Trade Organization (WTO) members to train their diplomatic corps to negotiate trade agreements more effectively.
Cable Television Alternative: Red Oak Academy in partnership with MedServices, Inc. can provide a variety of video multicasting hardware solutions to deliver up to 20 channels of subscription television to hundreds of campus users or residents living in remote locations. Instead of installing coaxial cable to each residence at a cost of millions of dollars or more, ROA can leverage existing data drops and Gigabit Ethernet backbones to deliver video across high bandwidth pathways.
Video Webcasting Configuration: Using the latest Pentium technology and high-speed video graphics hardware, the ROA broadcast assembly B-BOX permits high definition quality video origination from any point on earth - for a very low entry price. Total audio and video synchronization across the Internet can be originated by business entities, churches, public schools, university personnel or government agencies to deliver seamless video programming and teleconferencing in a real-time environment - to unlimited numbers of simultaneous end users.
Multicast Enabling: In the past 15 years, one of the major obstacles to allowing Internet Video Broadcasts to the masses has been the extremely high cost of bandwidth. In the last year, ROA has engaged in intensive research activities to enable large numbers of viewers to simultaneously view broadcasts from a single point of origin. Combining new network and PC technologies, ROA can offer web casting solutions at a fraction of their former cost.
Internet Access to Remote Areas of the World:
While researching multicast applications in the last year, ROA has
also acquired the ability to deliver high speed Internet
connectivity to remote areas of the earth, also at a fraction of the
cost of previous market offerings. A single outpost
transmitter/receiver can now be obtained for under $50,000. Of
course, this does not include local networking installations but
remains leading-edge technology for developing enterprises and
countries.
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