MassEdMass Education Project using Radio & Television

Final Project – Designing New Learning EnvironmentVenture – Lab , Stanford

Big part of rural and sizeable size of urban

population deprived of education

Lack of quality teachers

Lack of infrastructure in far flunked area

Lack of motivation for going to traditional

school

Need Rationale

Teaching through national TV and radio

network

Using localized educative material

Local language broadcast

Story and Picture based teaching

Interactive tool for tests and student

responds

Learning Solution Design

Story based content – encourages

students to build story

Allow students to raise questions and

transmit those question to all students

for peer solution

Telephonic & Conference tests

Flexibility by repeated telecast

System Features

Underprivileged population of far flunked area

Working and busy population not motivated to go

to traditional school

Uneducated elders shy of going to school

Target Audience

Television & Radio broadcast of teaching

Education to far flunked underprivileged

population

National TV network & Radio has wide reach

Elder uneducated are shy to go to traditional

school

Working uneducated population needs

flexibility

Learning Environment

Less teachers and experts required reduces

cost

A large volume of beneficiaries can be

catered by single system

TV fascinates population so it will attract

people

Promotions and advertising could be used to

generate revenue to sustain model

Business Model