Designing a ubiquitous sensor-based platform to facilitate learning for young children in Thailand

Noll

African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Developm

2021

This paper summarizes our work on studying educational applications enabled by the introduction of a new information layer called InfoInternet. This is an initiative to facilitate affordable access to internet-based information in communities with network scarcity or economic problems from the Global South. InfoInternet develops both networking solutions as well as business and social models, together with actors like mobile operators and government organizations. In this paper we identify and describe characteristics of educational applications, their specific users, and learning environment. We are interested in applications that make the adoption of Internet faster, cheaper, and wider in such communities. When developing new applications (or adopting existing ones) for such constrained environments, this work acts as initial guidelines prior to field studies.

Section: Facilitating Other Educational Programmes and Initiativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

InfoInternet for education in the Global South: A study of applications enabled by free information-only internet access in technologically disadvantaged areas

Noll

African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Developm

2021

“…Sensor-based Platforms as built in projects like [55], funded by Thailand's government, require connectivity. This platform supports science learning among primary school children in underprivileged Northern Thailand.…”

Section: Facilitating Other Educational Programs and Initiativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

InfoInternet for Education in the Global South: A Study of Applications Enabled by Free Information-only Internet Access in Technologically Disadvantaged Areas (authors' version)

Johansen,

Noll

2018

Preprint

This paper summarises our work on studying educational applications enabled by the introduction of a new information layer called InfoInternet. This is an initiative to facilitate affordable access to internet based information in communities with network scarcity or economic problems from the Global South. InfoInternet develops both networking solutions as well as business and social models, together with actors like mobile operators and government organisations. In this paper we identify and describe characteristics of educational applications, their specific users, and learning environment. We are interested in applications that make the adoption of Internet faster, cheaper, and wider in such communities. When developing new applications (or adopting existing ones) for such constrained environments, this work acts as initial guidelines prior to field studies.

“…O uso de dispositivos tecnológicos propagou-se de modo intenso na sociedade, transformando os computadores em elementos onipresentes que se entrelaçaram por completo ao modo de vida das pessoas (WEISER, 1991;IWS, 2018). No âmbito acadêmico, o emprego de ferramentas que têm como intuito apoiar o processo de ensino/aprendizagem tornou-se uma atividade habitual, contribuindo para a validação de teorias pedagógicas ao possibilitar o desenvolvimento de novas plataformas de apoio ao ensino que empregam sistemas de hardware e software criados especiĄcamente para esta Ąnalidade (SMYTH;VOLKER, 2013;SCHMIDT et al, 2014;KNIGHT et al, 2015;GASEVIC et al, 2017;PUTJORN et al, 2017;CAI, 2018;ZHANG et al, 2018).…”

Section: Capítulo 1 Introduçãounclassified

Tamanho ótimo amostral e análise fatorial e correlacional do desempenho de indivíduos sob a influência de plataformas computacionais de apoio ao ensino

Ribeiro¹

Usage of new technologies in educational scope raises several questions about the efficiency of these approaches and which beneĄts they provide to the academic Ąeld. Investigations in this area cover a line of research called Learning Analytics and, in the literature, many papers that analyze new technological proposals are only aimed at observing improvements that the use of tools can cause. Such researches do not analyze whether the sample size is robust to ensure reliability of results or whether the tool enhancement tends to maintain some inĆuence over stu-dentsŠ performance. Based on this, this thesis determined an optimal sample size of 25 students for the performance analysis of students who do not use teaching support technologies and of 20 students for classes in contact with educational platforms. An Experiments Manager was also developed to organize the visibility of Classroom eXperience (CX) platform functionalities and, using this Experiments Manager, a Factorial Analysis of Variance and a Correlation Analysis were performed. It was observed that studentsŠ performance was inĆuenced by the interaction between CX functionalities and the courses taken by students. In all undergraduate classes, there were signiĄcant increases in student performance in a comparison between the absence of CX and its use with the platform functionalities. Theoretical and mathematical undergraduate courses also presented moderate correlations between the platform usage level and studentsŠ performance. Thus, the platform usage positively inĆuenced the grades of undergraduate students and it was inferred that students who interacted more with CX also obtained the best grades in their classes. In graduate classes, there was no signiĄcant difference in students performance between CX levels of usage, nor the occurrence of correlations that indicated something similar to what happened with undergraduates, although there have also been increases in studentsŠ performance at this academic level.