BasicInternet:Edu-app

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Title
Low-bandwidth applications for Education in Developing markets
Author
Josef Noll
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Edu-app
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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

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  • 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