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ITEL launches virtual platform with digital laboratory and distance learning

The Institute of Telecommunications of Luanda (ITEL) presented this Thursday an electronic platform called AVITEL (Virtual Environment of ITEL) which includes an electronic secretary, a digital laboratory and a platform for distance learning that has already ministered 120 teleclasses.

: Ministro das Telecomunicações, Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação Social, Manuel Homem (Foto: Francisco Miudo/Angop)
Ministro das Telecomunicações, Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação Social, Manuel Homem (Foto: Francisco Miudo/Angop)  

According to ITEL's director general, André Pedro, the distance learning platform will be used "essentially" by students prevented from taking off for school, for various reasons, during this period of covid-19.

"Next year we will have two classes in the completely virtual model, but this year we have already started with this model at 100 percent. In the pilot experiment, which we started on March 19, we've already had about 120 teleclasses taught in this experimental model," he said.

The electronic secretariat has all the entrance documentation and students who have already completed the course at the institution, while the digital laboratory is composed of a device with 3D animation with augmented reality.

The classes in general education, especially for transition classes, and in the private education subsystem resumed last Monday, after six months of paralysis due to covid-19, and the authorities contemplate in this return semi-presential classes.

In statements to journalists at the ceremony of presentation of the devices, the Minister of Telecommunications, Information Technology and Media, Manuel Homem, welcomed the initiative of ITEL, saying that the institution has served as a "driving force" to put on the market middle technical staff in the area of telecommunications.

"In this sense, we understood that, given the contingencies of the moment, it was necessary to accelerate a modernization that would allow ITEL to continue to meet its objectives of bringing knowledge to its students," he said.

The AVITEL "valences" should be replicated in other schools in the country.

Asked about the Internet's difficulties in accessing the platform, the minister acknowledged that this is "a concern" that the authorities have "been working to ensure that the country increasingly has access to Internet services".

"We have a broadband program that we are implementing with the objective of improving the accessibility of the Internet throughout the country and, in fact, we must increasingly create conditions of accessibility to rural areas," he said.

"And the construction of the satellite will allow us to extend this Internet access to different communities," he said.

Angola launched its first telecommunications satellite, Angosat-1, in December 2017, which was lost in space after the launch.

Angosat-2, which will replace the first version currently under construction, is expected to be launched in 2022.

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