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We describe work toward the goal of a user interface (UI) designed such that even novice, illiterate users require absolutely no intervention from anyone at all to use. Our text-free UI is based on many hours of ethnographic design conducted in collaboration with a community of illiterate domestic laborers in three Bangalore slums. An ethnographic design process was used to understand what kind of application subjects would be interested in, how they respond to computing technology, and how...
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Tanzania has experienced a rapid increase in the number of secondary school students but has struggled with the quality of education provided at public schools. While teachers and textbooks can be scarce in classrooms, particularly in rural areas, basic mobile phones are widespread across the country. In this paper we present TextTETEA, an SMS-based service that provides education content to Tanzanian students. We describe the TextTETEA system architecture, features currently available, and usage data during initial field testing.
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This paper is proposed the lip-reading computer assisted instruction (CAI) for hearing impairment student. It consists of two units: the first unit is a part of the learning lesson. In this unit, the student can learns the various categories of vocabulary. The vocabularies come from the thing which use in day life, such as Fruit, Animal, vehicles and so on. It enables student to practice pronunciation by looking at a model speaker mouth movement. The second unit is the multiple choice game....
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The passage of Pakistan’s 18th amendment to its constitution could mark a shift to a more representative federal system, writes Colin Cookman.
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Development economics focuses on improving the well-being of billions of people in low-income countries, but the Global South is severely underrepresented in the field. A small number of rich-country institutions dominate, and their growing use of randomized controlled trials in research is entrenching the imbalance.
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The academic achievement gap is a persistent phenomenon in U.S. education system despite a long history of efforts and billions of dollars spent to correct it. Literature abounds with theories about why the gap exist, such as: student self-perception, parent involvement, teacher quality, and others. Model based approaches have been used to understand various aspects of the phenomenon. However, no models were identified that consider a comprehensive set of theories, and is specifically...
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This book is about Fourah Bay College (FBC) and its role as an institution of higher learning in both its African and international context. The study traces the College's development through periods of missionary education (1816-1876), colonial education (1876-1938), and development education (1938-2001).
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