Key figures
Thanks to
Redlands Unified School District, located in California’s Inland Empire, serves the communities of Redlands, Loma Linda, Mentone, and surrounding unincorporated areas with a diverse portfolio of TK-12 schools. Committed to “Excellence in Education,” the district supports roughly 21,000 students through rigorous academics, robust arts and athletics, and inclusive programs that prepare every learner for college, career, and civic life.
Executive Summary
The Redlands USD is the governing body of 26 public schools in the Redlands area (San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles). The pedagogical team identified throughout various activities and research that the best performing students were the ones that have been exposed to creating broadcasting content (news for example) and had experience in being storytellers.
Having identified this, the Redlands USD governing body has erected the development of broadcasting/storytelling for students as a priority in conjunction with their pledge (Cf Pledge) to commit resources to support 21st century learning
"The ability to redo videos as many times as you want encourages users to constantly improve and also helps boost their confidence."
Existing setup prior to Rapidmooc
Many schools were already equipped with AV equipment (camera, microphones, green screens). The use of Wevideo (wevideo.com), easy video editing software, was quite extensive as well, both by students and teachers.
However, the complexity of using AV equipment and the complexity of learning various softwares were a clear barrier for scaling up the quantity/quality of broadcasts.
The need was to identify a solution that would help lift this barrier.
The Redlands pledge
Redlands Unified School District has a pledge to promote the active use of digital technology in their teaching:
- All students will use cutting edge technology
- All students will explore learning experiences through the use of VR/AR/AI, robotics, coding and programming
- All students will respond to the curriculum using multimedia presentation tools
- All students will learn and practice digital citizenship
- Resources will be committed to support 21st century learning
The encounter
Dwayne Cowles – Head of Digital storytelling
Dr. Kenneth Wagner – Redlands USD Assistant Superintendent
The two met at ISTE Live 2022 conference in New Orleans. Several demos were made during the conference to key contacts there. Rapidmooc was quickly identified as a possible solution to remove the technological barrier.
In order for the Redlands management team to explore further the solution and its potential, the Rapidmooc team traveled to California with one Rapidmooc GO. The initial goal of the California trip was to enable the key contacts to continue evaluating the Rapidmooc solution and to gauge the reaction of teaching staff toward the Rapidmooc.
The solution deployed on site
The Redlands Unified Schood acquired in October 2022 17 studios to equip some of the district schools; 13 Pro 27” and 4 Pro 43”.
Deliveries occurred throughout October 2022 and 2 members of the Rapidmooc team were on site on 9th November 2022 to train the voluntary teachers (2 per schools equipped with the studios) on the basics of the Rapidmooc studios.
Since the deployment, the technology has been solidly utilized and endorsed by all stakeholders, from the students creating broadcast and new ways of delivering their assignments to the teachers and staff.
Immediate impact and results
From fun ways to spread knowledge (video math) to individual brilliance in completing assignment (video space), Rapidmooc has been a tool that has help free the creativity of the students and teachers and immediately adopted.
Positive feedback
“I’m reading better than ever.”
“Opens up new avenues for teachers who haven’t done Digital Storytelling before.”
“It’s a game changer for students who have trouble reading.”
"We love it! All staff participated in our Holiday message"
“If only I had this when I was in school, I could have had so many more options.”
The long-term vision
It is strongly believed that the use of Rapidmooc studio, through the innovative learning ways it procures to the brilliance and creativity it unleashes, will have significant impact on students’ academic results. It is of course too early at this stage to fully confirm it but we will share throughout the academic year and years to come regular updates on the progress.
For more information, please contact
Christophe Le Bourhis
c.lebourhis@rapidmooc.com
929 375 1266
Dwayne Cowles
d.cowles@rapidmooc.com