New Line Learning, a conglomeration of three secondary schools in South Maidstone, has recently adopted an innovative interactive “Anytime Anywhere Learning” strategy. The initiative equips all 7th and 8th year students with their own personal, mobile computing device, the Samsung Q1, on which to perform all class and homework. The device also enables students to retain reference materials in a near paperless educational environment with anytime communications to teachers and each other by email. New Line Learning Academy reports that they are already seeing improved learning patterns, results and better relationships between students and staff.

To avoid any additional management overhead for the schools’ IT staffs in the deployment of over 1500 Q1 devices by summer 2008, New Line Learning has partnered with education IT specialist, Lanway CBS Ltd., to provide a complete turnkey solution. Lanway’s service “encompasses the provision and management of the Q1 devices with all the software loading and support required, maintenance and repair, and a 3 year warranty and insurance package including accidental damage and loss to ensure that pupils are never without their personal device.”

For more on the “Anytime Anywhere Learning” project, check out New Line Learning’s promotional video.