technologies for development and learning
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A description of work done by our lab for the seminar "Sharing Inspiration in Higher Education" at the Finland Pavilion on the World Expo site in Shanghai.TRANSCRIPT
Technologies for Development and Learning --- innovations grow from
concrete challenges
Ruimin Shen, Weikai Xie and Carsten Ullrich ( rmshen/wkxie/[email protected]),
e-Learning Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
Oct 25, 2009
Outline
Challenge 1 – Highly unbalanced education resource deployment
China’s higher education “985 program”• 39 top (among ~2000 )universities entitled
• Biased government funding and research grants
Unequal distribution by provinceNo. of 985 program universities
Province
10 Beijing
3 Shanghai, Hubei, Shaanxi, Hunan
2 Jiangshu, Tianjin, Liaonin, Shichuan, Shangdong
1 Anhui, Zhejing, Helongjiang, Fujian, Gangsu, Congqing, Jilin
0 Remaining 15 provinces
disproportional admission opportunity to top universities
• Tsinghua University's 2010 by-province admission plan
How technologies can help tackle this problem?
Province Assigned quota Population
Beijing 243 197M
Zhejiang 42 517M
… … …
Skyclass – Mitigate geographical education resource gap
Ning XiaUniversity
IP network for interactivity
Tibet University
Satellite link for multimedia content
broadcast
SJTU
Augmented Standard Natural Classroom
Innovation: Right mix of transmission technologies
PPClass – P2P Streaming based live lecture broadcast system
Traditional way to deliver live lecture
P2P Streaming
Issue: Need huge bandwidth and server cost
when scale-up
Advantage: scale-up easily with only marginal burden
on server
www.go2class.net – Open access to SJTU continuing education, powered
by PPClass technology
Innovation: Open the access of premium education resource to massive audience with a scalable and cost-effective streaming
media technology
Challenge 2 - Lack of accessible form of life-long learning for working adults
Huge demand of life-long learning in China• Current educational demographic vs “economic
structure upgrade” mission
However, most working adults are unable to squeeze time to come to a formal class!
Mobile learning will be a natural fit for life-long education!
MobiClass – access live lecture/recorded lecture from smart phones
Download at kiosk
Download from web site
Live streaming
Support all major Symbian phones
PPClass Mobile – m-Learning on the new generation of smart phones
Touch screen operation
Support Android (iPhone support is coming)
Today’s Learning Management Systems (LMS):Lack of information about the user across learning
systems and learning contexts
Learner/teacher cannot choose learning services
Intelligent infrastructure incorporating widgets and existing LMSs across system boundaries
The ROLE Approach – right on track
truly personalizing learning
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