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Low-bandwidth applications for Education in Developing markets

Author

Josef Noll

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University of Oslo

⌘ Objectives

• Establish IT as part of the higher education in secondary schools and universities
• establish at least 3 courses addressing the challenges of developing economies

⌘ Problem-based learning (PBL)

Defining of the problems, examples:

• Building (mobile and) wireless networks
• Exploiting solar-based power systems
• Building a Basic Internet hot-spot
• IT-education: Programming a web page

Main outcome

• discussion between students
• good outcome is defined as part of the process

Steps in PBL

• Brainstomring
• Sharing
• Prioritising
• Editing

⌘ The Bandwidth Challenge

• Availability and Affordability

⌘ Requirements for Edu4Development apps

• App tailored towards usage group
  • primary school
  • secondary school
  • higher education
• re-use existing content
• availability & affordability
  • low bandwidth requirements
  • cheap/free availability

Comments on requirements

• costs of mobile networks
• availability of mobile networks

Note: These comments are not displayed in slideshow modus.

⌘ Focus on higher education

• STEM education
• focussing on Communications and Engineering
• problem based learning (PBL) approach is favourable, e.g. how to built a wireless network?

Information sources

• Lectures for "mentor-based" learning
• Extended reading on keywords on Wikipedia or other sites
• Examples
• own evaluation

Note: Examples and own evaluation are topics currently badly addressed in Wikipedia