BasicInternet:Edu-app
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- Title
- Low-bandwidth applications for Education in Developing markets
- Author
- Josef Noll
- Footer
- Edu-app
- Subfooter
- University of Oslo
Contents
⌘ 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
⌘ 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