how to make content contextualized and accessible

How to contextualize and access content

Making the forest from the trees… Henrik Hansson and William Jobe, Stockholm University

Uplifting the poor 2/16/13 Henrik Hansson and William Jobe

First quality, now contextualization

!  The first aim is quality (meaning)

!  Then accessibility (reach) !  Then contextualization (adaptation)


Accessibility

!  Affordability -‐ costs

!   Technical infrastructure – Internet access

!   Language access

!  Culturally relevant

!  Device ubiquity !   Support everything from phones to televisions


Languages

!   Internet access is not enough if information is understandable


Languages

• Approximately 6 000 in the World

! Approximately 2000 in Africa

! How to make quality content available in local languages?


Micro-‐economy & micro education approach

!   Align quality content to national curricula

!   Translate learning objects into local language & make it culturally relevant

!   Pay distributed individual translators per learning object based on quality !   Peer rating !   Expert rating !   Use frequency

!   = creates digital learning content for all school levels in local languages and promotes incentives to contribute (translate) via micro payment (aid or sponsors) Uplifting the poor 2/16/13 Henrik Hansson and William Jobe

2 ICT4D efforts

!  Kenyan Frontrunner

!  Mobile learning for Human Rights


Kenyan Frontrunner

!   Spider/DSV/Linköping project 2011 -‐-‐

!  P-‐O Hansson and William Jobe

!   Smartphones in a Kenyan context

!  Mobile technology, learning and business


Mobile Technology !  Using modern

techniques and tools in order to make mobile technology accessible

!  Native apps and mobile web apps

http://flip.dsv.su.se/Kenya/MobileWebApp/ Uplifting the poor 2/16/13 Henrik Hansson and William Jobe

Formal/Informal Learning !   Studying how the smartphone

facilitates informal learning

!   Studying how the smartphone can enable formal learning opportunities

!   The runners unanimously chose to study a course in Human Rights


Entrepreneurship !   Slum Runs

http://www.slumrun.com


Mobile Learning for Human Rights

!  Content contribution from Kenyans

!   Focus on Kenyan Human Rights issues and context

!   Language – English and Kiswahili

!  Device ubiquity with responsive web design

!  All content as audio files Uplifting the poor 2/16/13 Henrik Hansson and William Jobe

Mobile Learning for Human Rights

!   Formalizing informal learning !   Certificate !   Digital Badge


PC vs. mobile


What is Crucial? 1.  Affordability

2.  Technical infrastructure

3.  A pedagogical framework

4.  A support model

5.  Content in local languages

6.  Device ubiquity


? !   Must content be available in local languages? Is

English enough?

!   Supporting large scale ICT4D efforts? How can we do it?

!   Funding for learning initiatives and uplifting the poor with ICT?

!   Division of labour? Kenya-‐Sweden: !   programming-‐help desk !   content development !   innovation, research and evaluation


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