Business Interactive
Format: Windows CD-ROM
Age Range: 14-16
License: Network Site License
Price: £1150 + VAT (Traditional & Applied)
£995 + VAT (Applied Only)
This product qualifies for purchase with eLearning Credits.
Business Interactive is an interactive multimedia package designed to support both the Applied GCSE Double Award and the traditional GCSE in Business and other related courses. The package makes extensive and imaginative use of video clips and audio clips, keeping text to a minimum.
Video case studies allow real businesses to be brought into the classroom.
Testing zones monitor student progress and record assessment centrally for teachers to access. The emphasis of this multimedia package is on interactive learning where students learn by 'doing'.
Who has Designed the Package?
Business Interactive has been developed by teachers for teachers. It has been successfully piloted and evaluated in schools. The resource has been designed in close partnership with real businesses.
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Who can Use the Programme?
Business Interactive covers all aspects of the GCSE specification. It can be used:
- To enhance the work of a specialist teacher
- To play a lead role where specialist teachers are not available
- As a self learning resource for students
The software also provides valuable support to enhance teaching of other business courses.
Use by a specialist teacher
Business Interactive provides a valuable resource to help teachers to deliver business courses. It includes video clips with scripted case studies and 'virtual businesses' through footage of real organisations. Click here to see one of the video case studies included with Business Interactive (Requires QuickTime).
Use by non-specialists
The software is user friendly and does not need to be operated by business specialists. Delivery of the resource can be supervised by classroom assistants. The package allows students to work independently. Business Interactive can help ease teacher shortages and timetabling pressures.
Use for independent learning
The resource has been designed to cover all aspects of the specification. Tasks allow for differentiation, with beginner and expert levels or extended web-based research tasks. Students can use the resource during allocated lesson time, unsupervised or even at home.
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Additional Programme Support
- Teacher support pack.
- Fully Interactive quick-start tutorial included with the programme.
- Full helpdesk support and advice at no extra cost.
- Additional free resources available on our website.
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Coverage
The complete package is made up of 4 units, which can also be purchased individually as they also work independently from each other. The units have been designed to follow the QCA specification:
- Unit 1 - Investigating Business
- Unit 2 - People & Business
- Unit 3 - Business Finance
- Unit 4 - Marketing & Production
The resource can be used with specifications from OCR, AQA and EDEXCEL.
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Content
With over 1200 pages of on-screen resources there just isn't enough room here to list the complete contents of the complete Business Interactive package. Click here to download a PDF file with detailed listings of the content of each unit.
Alternatively visit our dedicated pages for each of the individual units that make up Business Interactive; Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3 and Unit 4.
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Technical Requirements
Business Interactive has been designed for use on a standard Windows PC with a CD-ROM drive and soundcard. The software requires Windows 98 or better to operate.
The minimum requirements for workstations running Business Interactive are a 600Mhz Pentium or AMD processor with 128Mb RAM and 5Gb of free hard disk space. If you will be installing the software on a network server then Business Interactive does not require any space on workstation hard disks.
- A 1Ghz processor and 256Mb RAM are recommended for optimum performance.
- The materials can easily be installed to run across a network.
- A sound card providing output via headphones or speakers is required for the software to operate correctly.
- Internet access is desirable but not essential to support the web based research activities.
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Pricing
Current pricing on the Business Interactive package and units is available here.
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