A Feasible Rural Education System

African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 2015

In some countries mobile learning is becoming an important issue in academic institutions, as teachers and students get connected to networks through smart phones that combine telephony, computing, messaging and multimedia. However, in rural areas the process of designing, communicating and presenting learning resources, content services and learning content for mobile learners poses challenges. Teachers and students are not able to connect to networks for the purposes of learning and teaching. Therefore an enabler framework for this purpose becomes necessary. Those who connect to the Internet are not able to get precise and relevant content that meets their requirements and needs. This is due to poor internet connectivity, lack of semantics on content, inaccurate searches and information overload. This paper proposes a solution to some of the challenges by designing a conceptual ontology-based framework for mobile learning which could be used in rural secondary schools. The framework takes into account the following: a knowledge base, ontology, software agents, learning resources and learning/teaching content. Agents search for learning objects and extract knowledge according to learner and teacher/instructor profiles. The proposed framework would facilitate collaboration, sharing of ideas, instruction flow and access to learning and teaching content with accuracy, anytime from anywhere.

Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture II, Volume 3, 2009

This paper introduces a practical e-learning system, identified as Knowledge Exchange E-learning System (abbr. KEES), for knowledge distribution in rural areas. Particularly, this paper is about providing a virtual teaching and learning environment for small holders in agriculture in those rural areas. E-learning is increasingly influencing the agricultural education (information and knowledge learning) in all forms and the current e-learning in agricultural education appears in informal and formal methods in many developed countries and some developing areas such as Asian Pacific regions. KEES is a solution to provide education services including other services of information distribution and knowledge sharing to local farmers, local institutes or local collection of farmers. The design of KEES is made to meet the needs of knowledge capacity building, experience sharing, skill upgrading, and information exchanging in agriculture for different conditions in rural areas. The system allows the online lecture/training materials to be distributed simultaneously with all multimedia resources through different file formats across different platforms. The teaching/training content can be contextless and broad, allowing for greater participation by more small holders, commercial farmers, extension workers, agriculturists, educators, and other agriculture-related experts. The relative inconsistency in content gives farmers more localised and useful knowledge. The framework of KEES has been designed to be a three-tier architecture logic workflow, which can configure the progressive approach for KEES to pass on and respond to different requests/communications between the client side and the server.

International Journal of Computer Applications, 2013

Information and communication technologies brought-in tools and techniques in the field of education that introduced new concepts of teaching and learning. Learning management system is one of the key tools used in educational institutes to facilitate e-learning. There is remarkable digital divide among urban and rural areas. In this paper, we present a model for providing e-learning services to remote/rural areas in order to promote and facilitate modern education. A dedicated resource center, hosting the learning management system, facilitates e-learning centers through Internet. The overall goal of this model is to have a cost-effective learning environment equipped with latest technologies to provide learners an opportunity to get insight into new information and communication technologies and e-learning environment. The model offers new teaching methodology with enhance utilization of learning management system in teaching and learning. Basic characteristics and technical aspects will be considered as well. The study will also promote development and usage of open-source technologies.

International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence, 2016

Cloud computing has been the newest paradigm computing that provides many advantages to users. Due to the advantages of the cloud computing many users are moving their systems and applications to it while new cloud based applications are emerging on a daily basis. Though the urban population can access and benefit from all the modern technologies, the rural population is generally left out of it as they are trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty. The only way to get them out from their problems is to empower them with new knowledge and skills. The traditional methods including ICT based education delivery methods have faced several hurdles in achieving their objectives. In this paper, the author takes an in-depth look at how cloud computing can be leveraged to deliver rural education programmes more efficiently and effectively. The Rural Education as a Service presented in this paper has many advantages and can easily overcome the problems faced by other methods. The paper also prese...

Due to lack of attention to few rural schools education, not all rural schools are getting quality education. Some of them are suffering from proper guidelines, right direction in learning and choosing the study and subject materials. It is necessary for rural school education systems to have proper guidelines, direction, quality teaching, subject materials and other. Maintaining experts and quality teaching in every rural school are very difficult; this paper discuss the identified problems of Indian rural education environment. We are proposing advanced technologies and tools which help in fixing the rural education problems. Advanced technologies and tools like i) Virtualization technologies (desktop virtualization and storage virtualization) ii) cloud computing technologies (IaaS and DSaaS) and iii) Moodle (quiz tool and forum tool etc) are discussed along with overview models, implementation flow and its benefits.

2012

 Abstract— The Internet Technology is at forefront of transforming education and opportunities around the globe by allowing different kind of interaction and innovation among various educational institutes and students alike, all participating in the global online innovations. In particular, educators have realized that technology enhanced learning, offers flexible and powerful way of accomplishing wide range of opportunities that have been important and resourceful in schools, such as gaining access to universal information resources that relieve academic staff of their work load leaving time for professional development and time to improve on their studies and research output which have been so elusive for sometime now. Extending this novelty and gain to the rural settings raises lot of concerns and challenges that threaten its sustainability to its core implementation. Cloud computing brings wide ranges of computing power, innovations and shifts in paradigms of Information Techn...

Global Scientific Journal, 2018

Cloud technology is now applying in various sectors of education system. One of the main feature of cloud computing is to access many resources with minimum cost. So this feature can be used to provide effective primary education with low cost for developing countries. This research paper mainly focuses on developing countries because the primary education level of these countries is too poor or below standard compare to other developed countries. One of the major parts of the nation of developing country is deprived children who do not get proper basic education for different barriers. With limited budget, how cloud technology can be used to change the current primary education system and deliver quality education for poor children are proposed in this paper. This proposed system can be developed by implementing three main parts. One part is the public cloud where all educational resources will be stored, second part is division wise private clouds which will contain all updated data from public cloud and third part is area wise primary institutes which will connect with private cloud to deliver the quality education. With the proposed architecture, primary education system of developing country can be improved more effectually.

2014

The Ontology Problem is a fundamental challenge of the emerging Semantic Web. This problem is comprised of three key sub-problems that are higher level Ontology Problem, the domain ontology problem and the Ontology Integration Problem. Key issues are OWL (web based ontology) reasoning is limited and has performance issues, Multi-threaded access is unstable and some API’s are confusing. This paper derives current status of ontology in education domain also focusing on how to develop a conceptual and strategic model which helps us to develop an ontology in terms of Natural language parsing (NLP) , XML (extended markup language), OWL and RDF (resource descriptor framework).

one of the difficulties of educational equity for developing country is that many teachers and students are spread across many islands. Distance education is one of the solutions to educational equity. However, the implementation of distance education is somewhat tricky and requires experience on its implementation. This paper will introduce DEMO (Distance Education Management Object), a proposed model to manage a distance education based on three components which are digital learning object, knowledge transfer mechanism, and cloud technology infrastructure. DEMO can be a practical guidance for organizations that want to prepare and to execute the distance education based on cloud platform solution.

International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Information Sciences, 2019

Smart cities are new and evolving concept based on innovative information and communication technologies. Thinks and Internet of Thinks (IoT) must be core technologies in smart cities. Thinks' services and maintenance must be managed through digital planes. Location based service (LBS) are service targeted to a wide range of users. The increasing number of LBS will have a bad impact on transitions. One of the objectives of building smart cities is to reduce the traffic congestion and transportation demand. This paper utilizes Geographic Information System (GIS) and spatial analysis techniques for decision support of LBS. the objective is the advance determination of the best service location for covering services requirement based on three factors: location, time and type of service. Education is the greatest service required for humanity. This paper focuses on considering service factors and client requirements by applying a developed GIS platform to inform service provider by the assets required to cover customer needs and meets smart cities goals. While 1 st stage of primary schools accepts students in age of 6 years, the suggested platform determines schools' plane for 5 years in advance, according to: student location, date of birth, and education type requirement. The suggested platform was applied on Mansoura city, Egypt. That platform was designed by: using geoprocessing tools, and Python programming language of GIS (arcPy) for implementing functions and procedures ("split by attribute", "periodic service plane"). Geocoding processing is used for converting students' addresses to spatial location, which is necessary for geo-relational analysis.