Computer aids for youngsters courtesy of True's beboydcg

The course development is based on Education Ministry standards, the company said.

The course includes the use of multimedia tools designed by True's 70 per cent owned multimedia firm beboydcg  to promote fun learning among kids.

Beboydcg also provides trained staff as instructors in the classrooms.

Beboydcg's chief executive Piroon Paireepairit said yesterday the company has already arranged courses with more than seven Bangkok schools with 5,000 students.

The collaboration will last for three years.

The cost of the course is about Bt1,000 per student per semester.

Piroon said the project was not aimed at generating huge revenue but to promote constructive learning methods based on interactive and multimedia technologies.

True's businesses include a fixed telephone service, a cellular service, broadband Internet service along with its wireless payment service and pay-TV.

Piroon said that next True would expand the number of the schools that want to use the course, which would be expanded to cover more subjects besides the existing computer learning.