Obeikan Education entered into an agreement with Intel to develop an educational portal using Intel’s proprietary programme, developed for schools under the brand name “skoool.com” and aimed at assisting Arab students develop themselves in Math and Science. Skoool.com is an Intel product that focuses on Math and Science and helps school age students understand these subjects. It also helps reduce their stress and assists them in managing their time efficiently and effectively. Skoool.com helps teachers explain the more difficult subjects to students. It serves as a teacher aide as school, and as a free private tutor at home.
Obeikan Education has developed interactive content aligned with Math and Science curricula in Saudi Arabia to help students develop their competency and mastery of the subjects under the brand name VITAMIN. Turkish firm SEBIT (Adaptive Curriculum) and Saudi Telecom have helped in the delivery of this content to Saudi students and families via the ADSL residential network system. It is an online educational platform that consists of a large library of educational objects. The platform is tailored to the needs of primary and intermediate school students.
Vitamin offers high quality, interactive and highly visual educational content that attracts young learners. Vitamin also offers social networking around education, enables virtual classroom applications, and provides personalized Learning Path for students at different levels with different skills, in addition to online tools for teachers and students. Vitamin brings the “useful internet” concept as the top value to its users and the fulfilment of a social responsibility for telecom operators who provide internet services. Obeikan Education will continue to add content and functionalities to Vitamin, and more intuitive online tools for teachers and students. Obeikan Education and its partners are capable of doing the same for any curriculum in any country.
To complement its content development processes and to support its teachers and learners, Obeikan Education has become the sole distributor of SMART Technologies in Saudi Arabia, an industry pioneer and global education market leader in user-friendly ICT products and group collaboration tools. The award-winning line of SMART Board interactive whiteboards is the most widely installed in the world because of its unsurpassed product quality, versatility and ease of use. Obeikan is expanding its localised resources in the country to support teachers, implementers, administrators, and corporate users to improve their knowledge levels and make SMART solutions easy to implement and own. SMART interactive whiteboards are used to teach over 18 million students in more than 600,000 classrooms in more than 100 countries around the world.