{"id":2795,"date":"2021-09-01T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2024-01-25T13:02:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T07:02:06","slug":"the-main-features-of-the-ilimbox-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/kg\/news\/the-main-features-of-the-ilimbox-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"The main features of the ilimbox platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed shortcomings in the Kyrgyz education system and many problems have arisen. All schoolchildren and students had to study at home in the form of distance learning. With distance learning, the following problems arose:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lack of training materials required for online learning, lack of available mobile phone materials and large file sizes;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Difficulty using online learning tools;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In some places, Internet access was poor and not available;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lack of materials in Kyrgyz (60% of Kyrgyz-taught schools in Kyrgyzstan)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are no materials that encourage students to study online and there is no platform for feedback between teacher and student;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were problems with the lack of structuring of the teaching materials available (such as online video tutorials, tests, etc.).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2796\" src=\"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/219f4777-8887-4680-bdb9-724e88130c25.jpg.630x410_q85_crop-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/219f4777-8887-4680-bdb9-724e88130c25.jpg.630x410_q85_crop-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/isoc.kg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/219f4777-8887-4680-bdb9-724e88130c25.jpg.630x410_q85_crop.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 814px) 100vw, 814px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The process of teaching by tele-lessons. Photo: Ministry of Education of Kyrgyzstan.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even before the pandemic, the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Internet Society Kyrgyzstan Chapter<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> had done a lot of important work in the field of education. At the moment, the ilimbox project, a digital source of knowledge, has been successfully implemented, the digital device has been placed in areas where there is no Internet connection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kyrgyz Internet Society is working to address these issues, to develop an accessible educational platform that would regulate distance learning, increase the volume and consolidation of Kyrgyz language materials, provide feedback between teachers and students, and monitor student learning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, the ilimbox educational platform has been developed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2629\" src=\"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/-\u0431\u0435\u0437-\u043d\u0430\u0437\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u044f-e1630557099131-300x199.png\" alt=\"ilimbox\" width=\"836\" height=\"554\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ilimbox team has developed a system taking into account all the problems that arise during online training, and has the following advantages:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All video tutorials and educational materials are adapted for mobile phones, tablets and computers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Calendar integration, reminders, return to recent reading, and more.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interesting tests and fun interactive tasks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For students not attending a temporary school, this is an opportunity to continue their studies without going beyond the curriculum.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Providing teachers with digital multimedia materials on subjects.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A training tool available during a pandemic and all training materials in one place.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ilimbox team took into account all the news and developed an open educational platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Registration and use of the platform has been simplified. Users can register using their mobile phone number and email.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2798\" src=\"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-2-185x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-2-185x300.png 185w, https:\/\/isoc.kg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-2.png 316w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Books and teaching materials were adapted to computers, tablets and mobile phones; divided into classes, quarters and lessons within the framework of the calendar-thematic plan<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2799\" src=\"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-3-300x222.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-3-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/isoc.kg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-3.png 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2652\" src=\"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/ilimbox_app-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"ilimbox\" width=\"561\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/ilimbox_app-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/isoc.kg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/ilimbox_app.jpg 754w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The file size and quality of video tutorials have been reduced without loss of quality, which in turn allows you to use a low-speed Internet connection and save bandwidth. For example, if the file size of the book was originally 600 MB, on our platform it is 20 MB.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the video tutorials are 300 MB on the YouTube platform, the ilimbox educational platform is only 30 MB and without any loss of quality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This, in turn, gives great advantages to our schoolchildren, you can open at a low Internet speed and save Internet traffic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Schoolchildren can easily watch video lessons and learn on the ilimbox platform without worrying about the speed and traffic of the Internet, because in our system all materials are compressed tens and even hundreds of times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why was it important to us?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Firstly, in our country there are places where the speed of the Internet connection is very weak, the file size is very important for such regions. Educational material (video tutorials, books, etc.) of small size and without loss of quality &#8211; this makes it comfortable to use the platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Secondly, schoolchildren can save Internet traffic, for example, if they watch one video lesson on YouTube, they can spend an average of 300 MB, and on the ilimbox platform they can watch video lessons, solve interactive problems and tests for 30 MB, and for the remaining Internet traffic can be spent on viewing other educational materials. You can read about this in detail <a href=\"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/ru\/news\/ilimbox-kg\/ilimbox-source-of-digital-knowledge-benefits-what-features-and-for-whom-as-well-as-reducing-file-size\/?preview_id=2785&#038;preview_nonce=315a3bae58&#038;_thumbnail_id=2789&#038;preview=true\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2800\" src=\"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-4-300x268.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"632\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-4-300x268.png 300w, https:\/\/isoc.kg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-4.png 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interactive tasks and informative tests test students&#8217; knowledge and encourage them to learn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ilimbox team does not want to be satisfied with what has already been achieved, the future plans of the team are to fill it with interesting educational materials, prepare and post short videos of experiments in physics, chemistry and natural science for high school students in the Kyrgyz language. Filling the ilimbox.kg platform with ORT and subject tests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ilimbox Distance Learning Educational Platform for Schoolchildren project is funded by the Democratic Commission&#8217;s Small Grants Program of the US Embassy in the Kyrgyz Republic 2020-2021.The Ilimbox project is funded by the Democratic Commission Small Grants Program of the US Embassy in the Kyrgyz Republic.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed shortcomings in the Kyrgyz education system and many problems have arisen. All schoolchildren and students had to study at home in the form of distance learning. With distance learning, the following problems arose: Lack of training materials required for online learning, lack of available mobile phone materials and large file [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-ilimbox-kg"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"kg","enabled_languages":["en","ru","kg"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"ru":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"kg":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/kg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/kg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/kg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/kg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/kg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/kg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14828,"href":"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/kg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions\/14828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/kg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/kg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/kg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isoc.kg\/kg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}