Success Story
Hong Kong Education City
Adobe® Flash® Professional and Flash Media Server help Hong Kong’s top education portal
promote quality education and IT culture with improved interactivity and creativity
Hong Kong Education City
www.hkedcity.net
Industry
Education
Challenges
• Improve interactivity and content
engagement
• Support multimedia content
• Improve usefulness of the online
learning environment for all
stakeholders
• Foster an appreciation for
technology in education and
promote its use
Solution
• Online Portal
• Interactive content development
HKEdCity uses Adobe Flash
Professional and Flash Media
Server to provide a rich, interactive
eLearning experience.
Results
• Provides rich-media online content
for students, teachers, and parents
• Offers ongoing multimedia content
presentations
• Enabled broader distribution and
increased participation rates
• Provided comprehensive,
easy-to-use UI
Systems At A Glance
• Adobe Flash Professional
• Adobe Flash Media Server
Preparing students for future success
Hong Kong Education City (HKEdCity) is the city’s leading, one-stop online education portal serving
students, teachers, and parents of more than 1,200 local schools. HKEdCity’s portal plays a significant
role in providing quality education to Hong Kong’s youth by improving the methods by which
students and teachers interact and engage with information. HKEdCity wanted to create a visually
rich experience for users that would educate and inform while also helping them become more
technology savvy and better prepare students for jobs in tomorrow’s knowledge-based economy.
To achieve this goal, HKEdCity selected Adobe Flash technology to achieve quicker development
of compelling graphics and platform-independent content to improve the quality and creativity
of its eLearning site. Using Adobe Flash Professional and Flash Media Server software to create
and extend rich media content delivery for its interactive education portal and online resources
centre that caters to students, teachers, and parents, HKEdCity developed web-based projects for
primary and secondary school students and teachers to help successfully integrate IT into the
learning environment.
Creating a technology driven learning environment
Developing a more interactive and engaging portal for its users was a critical goal for HKEdCity.
Students in particular need stimulating and fun content to make web-based learning most effective.
HKEdCity needed to greatly enhance the momentum behind the use of IT in education and further
embed the need for IT skills training in the minds of students and teachers alike.
Engaging learning experiences are the foundation of a great education. With Flash Professional,
HKEdCity’s creative professionals can design and author interactive content rich with video,
graphics, and animation for a truly unique, engaging website environment. Flash Professional
provides an advanced authoring environment for creating interactive websites, digital experiences, and mobile content. The interactivity of Flash technology can cultivate a digital learning
environment for HKEdCity where students love to learn, teachers are inspired to innovate, and
parents are encouraged to participate.
Improved design, engaging animations, and better interactivity
Adobe Flash Professional helped HKEdCity integrate its digital learning experience and teach
skills that motivate students and teachers towards a life-long love of learning and appreciation of
technology. The enhanced web portal also provides an effective platform for enabling additional
teaching tools like fully converged communication applications and mobile learning.
Using Adobe Flash Professional and Flash
Media Servier, HKEdCity is providing
students, teachers, and parents with
stimulating and fun content to make
web-based learning most effective.
Much of HKEdCity’s Small Campus
Project was built and developed with
Flash technology. Flash Media Server is
used for its English Campus - TV News
Project, which allows students to access
local English news clips with interactive
exercises and quizzes.
“Adobe Flash Professional
and Flash Media Server
give us the highly flexible
and user-friendly web
technology that is aiding
us to fully utilize our
creativity in developing
an interactive education
portal for the school
students and teachers
in Hong Kong.”
Jacqueline Cheng Ming Fung,
CEO,
HKEdCity
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More than 80% of the web content for HKEdCity’s Small Campus Project was built and developed
with Flash technology, allowing for more flexibility and interactivity with animation and design.
HKEdCity also used Flash Media Server to develop its English Campus - TV News Project, which
allows students to access local English news clips with interactive exercises and quizzes. English
learning is made fun as video recording on the server enables rich media communication applications
and live audio/video capture. All that is required for the user is the free Adobe Flash Player.
“We are dedicated to promoting quality education and an IT culture by incorporating information,
resources, communities, and services,” says Jacqueline Cheng Ming Fung, CEO of HKEdCity.
“Adobe Flash Professional and Flash Media Server give us highly flexible and user-friendly web
technology. This aids us in fully utilizing our creativity to develop an interactive education portal
for the school students and teachers in Hong Kong.”
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