It is estimated that less than 20 percent of African students and teachers from K1-K12 have access to internet for education due to cost of streaming online multimedia resources, network bandwidth and potential internet insecurity and distractions by educational pundits and experts both locally and globally. This has further been validated by the research on internet access where Nigeria as the most populous country in the continent has only 92.3 Million internet users constituting an average of 47.1 percent of its population while just 11% of students have access to school in Kenya.
The purpose of this project and activity is to explore and leverage on networked practitioner perspective on Module H818 to design a low-cost technological tool that provides access to digital learning resources in areas with limited or no access to internet, where the cost of internet is high and where internet is posing as a threat to e-learning. The project is exploring the Raspberry PI board compatibility as a local server, existing open Education repositories and resources online as well as local digital contents with a prototype to design and compile by the teams as software programmers, local and global content providers as sources of information and networked practitioner perspective. A school within the locality shall be selected for pre-testing and evaluation. With an estimated period of 8 months of implementation and completion, it is expected that the project would catalyze to the production of an e-learning device or a hardware that could be accessible with digital contents for teachers and students in regions without internet and would scale to the deployment to schools in Nigeria and Africa through exhibition, presentation and policy implementation by governments, international donor agencies. Keywords: Open Education, Inclusion, Quality Education, Edubox Reduced Inequalities, Democratization, Accessibility. Vanguard (2020): "Edubox Named as Nigeria's Topmost Educational Technology" https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/02/edubox-named-nigerias-topmost-educational-technology-solution-for-schools/amp. Last Accessed [February 2nd, 2020) World Possible (2018). "Remote Access Community Hotspot for Education and Learning." Connecting Offline Learners to the worlds knowledge. Last Accessed [February 2nd, 2020]
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Simon Ball
2/18/2020 06:24:18 am
Hi Ayodele
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Ayodele
2/22/2020 07:01:25 am
Hi Simon,
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Simon Ball
2/26/2020 05:42:25 am
H818 Presentation Star
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