computer assistance

There are different providers for learning solutions as well as services for academic institutions, companies as well as management. I have selected top three of them to be compared and analyzed on the basis of their products and services. The list includes:

· Edutech

· Swiftassess

· Citrix

Edutech

Edutech is learning company where its learning solutions and services are across the learning cycles from preschools and schools, vocational centers, universities, industrial training centers and corporate and government. It has both physical and digital learning environment across classrooms, laboratories, campuses and work spaces. The main benefits include:

· In medical examinations and assessment, Edutech has application known as QuestionMark perception , which is used in delivery and reporting on observational assessments.

· Tutors, educators and testing professionals use this software to author, schedule and report on exams and tests done by students.

· Since medicine is a critical course that needs to be taken serious in terms of teaching and assessment, the software plays an important role here as it gives real results upon assessments for evaluation.

· Edutech offers assessment consultancy as a service.

· In examinations, it offers exam automation which assists clients to select the appropriate and effective tool for their organizational needs. In this case, medical schools will often relay on this since they are allowed to choose the tool that they prefer in assessing and evaluating students.

· They also offer an industry standard assessment platform .

· For practical sessions, Edutech offers outsourcing the examinations services for institutions administering the tests.

Training of

teachers

eLearning

Platform

Robotics Team

TVET Education

(Products & Services of Edutech)

Swiftassess

Swiftassess is the best in medical assessment and evaluation. The main benefits of their services are

· To uphold the examination integrity and ensure that students do not copy from each other, this program gives examiners the chance to set the questions in random order when presenting them to examinees. This ensures that examination is not compromised.

· It also lets the examiners get gist of the exams before publishing to ensure that it’s correct and to standard required.

· Since medicine deals with lives of people, the course needs to be administered with care and to ensure they produce quality into the market. This software also has multiple examination questions types including multiple choices, true false, handwritten etc. this ensure that students are assessed in both aspects to enhance their skills.

· Video can be used to show evidence of the practical exams done, as it went and the results for evaluations.

Interactive System for K-12 institues

Outcome Based Approcah to

Unversities

Practical tools for Vocational

Learning

(Products & Services of Swiftassess)

Citrix

This is a company that empowers businesses with mobile work spaces. The main features include

· It enables people to work from anywhere to enhance mobile productivity .

· Since e-learning systems need their data and information is accessible from anywhere any by anybody anytime, this company give this service while enhancing security of the data . The security against exam alter and theft thus upholding integrity of the medical course.

· It is a feeder system to the above systems that are used by institutions to administer exams to students.

· It provides mobile workspace suite for data access and sharing.

· More appropriate for corporate sector.

· High costs of implementation.

Workspace Suite

Meet and Colloborate

Access apps and Data

Manage enterprise

mobility

Desktop

Cloud Infrastructure

(Products & Services of Citrix)

Comparison among Three Top Choices

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x-axis: performance year y-axis: development percentage

As the chart shows that the Swiftassess has shown better growth in the recent years as compared to its rivals’ products and services.

	Edutech	Swiftassess	Citrix
Introduced integrated technology	Yes	Yes	Yes
Growth rate in educational sectors in 2011	Yes	Yes	Yes
Authorization and checking system to teachers	No	Yes	No
Development rate in education sectors in 2014	Yes	Yes	Yes
Costs of products and services for educational sector	Good	Best	Expensive
Appreciable and affordable products and services for educationists	No	Yes	No

Conclusion

Swiftassess is the best to be used for the educational institutions when taking, monitoring and checking the exams is important. It is beneficial for the centre to keep track of exams happening internally because it provides the provision of huge media library is the source of great media components including videos, images as well as audio. Further, it will help the centre with the help of wide range questions type and even monitoring practicals with the aid of videos.

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