Announcing a path breaking agreement with the Center of Higher Learning (CHL) at NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center, Indian IT leader Core Projects & Technologies Ltd (CORE) is poised to launch into the areas of curriculum and content delivery in the global education space, with cutting edge technology never before seen in the modern classroom.

Located at the NASA John C Stennis Space Center, CHL is a collaborative effort between NASA, the US state of Mississippi, and is administered by the University of Southern Mississippi. CHL uses the pioneering Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) technology developed by scientists at CHL located at NASA’s Stennis Space Center to create virtual reality based educational content and curriculum. This Immersive Visualization technology allows users to become fully immersed in an interactive 3D virtual environment. Research has shown students retain information at a much higher rate when working in more tangible 3D environments, than when information is presented with textbooks or other flat, 2D representations. This new technology is therefore a dramatically different approach to teaching, and presents schools around the world with numerous new opportunities to educating today’s students.

The CORE and CHL collaboration is exclusive to the Asia-Pacific region and will enable CORE to assimilate and internalize the technology for use in developing content for the Indian and international education markets. Commenting on the partnership, Mr. Sanjeev Mansotra, Chairman and Managing Director of CORE foresees, "This arrangement will arm CORE with tomorrow’s technology and enable us to significantly contribute to global education markets. Students around the world will benefit from the use of CAVE technology, as this will take teaching and learning to a completely different level. We are very excited by the substantial impact this partnership allows us to make in the global educational content and curriculum segment, an area in which we did not have prior presence."

CORE plans to produce educational software titles for over 17,000 higher education institutions, as well as hundreds of thousands K-12 schools in the US, UK and India. The applications will be in areas such as mammography physics, chemistry, molecular science, biology, computer science, mathematics, scientific computation, and more.

Mr. Joe Swaykos, Director of CHL, adds "It is the avowed mission of CHL to spread the benefits of space age technology for the good of society at large. Our collaboration with CORE will help us to use this cutting edge technology in the field of education. We are confident this collaborative effort will help take learning to a significantly higher level."

CORE has been at the forefront of developing administrative educational software. With several large application installations throughout the US and UK, and with additional opportunities emerging in India, CORE is a leader in providing school administrators with the tools they need to provide quality education to students around the world.

About CORE
Core Projects & Technologies Ltd. is a USD 100 million company based in Mumbai and a global leader in Education Management Systems, with a proven track record of successful projects with state governments in the US and India. CORE has vast experience in providing educational management solutions for various national and state governments across the globe. These solutions include fund management systems, project monitoring information systems, child tracking systems, student information systems, and many more.

CORE was named the “Fastest Growing Company of the Year 2006”. It has also received a “Special Jury Award” for outstanding work done for rural and school level under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, flagship program of the Government of India.

The CORE Projects & Technologies client list includes:

Georgia Department of Education, Accountability Division

Georgia Department of Education, Early Care and Learning

Michigan Department of Education, Office of Special Education Services

Illinois State of Board of Education

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

Florida Department of Education

Miami-Dade (FL) Public Schools

Columbia Country (FL) Public Schools

State of Jharkhand, JEPC