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Digital MediaIn 2004 Texas PBS Stations partnered with the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to experiment with new ways to bring technology to schools. The pilot project studied cost-effective solutions for providing multi-media and other large volumes of data to rural and underserved school districts.
This first step towards a media-on-demand system helped the stations establish a statewide educational service and identify content as part of a new digital library with Texas-specific information for schools.
In addition to a national video library correlated to state standards, the project successfully delivered more than 67 titles of Texas-specific content to 158 schools. The Texas Digital Datacasting Pilot Project successfully delivered multi-media content to schools particularly in rural parts of the state and with limited access to broadband services. This research helped inform both the agency and stations of new ways to deliver content.
The Texas PBS Stations will continue to experiment with new ways to bring digital media to schools and to the general public.
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