Technologies for Development and Learning --- innovations grow from

concrete challenges

Ruimin Shen, Weikai Xie and Carsten Ullrich ( rmshen/wkxie/ullrich_c@sjtu.edu.cn),

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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