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In December 1999, the then Department for Education and Employment and IBM launched a major partnership to enable teachers and schools to disseminate effective teaching practices throughout the nation's classrooms.
Since that time, IBM and the Department for Education & Skills have worked intensively with several hundred teachers from over 70 schools to customize and implement Riverdeep Learning Village to reach this goal. These schools are part of the Beacon Schools, a governmental initiative designed to identify, disseminate, and institutionalise successful education practices. Teachers at the Beacon Schools have been using the technology to create lesson plans and projects and collaborate online to improve instruction.
With the completion of the pilot phase, IBM is now developing plans with the Department for Education & Skills and the Teacher Training Agency to expand the program, making Riverdeep Learning Village, the methodologies generated, and the expertise created available to a far larger community of teachers throughout the country.
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