Harry Longworth, co-founder of the not-for-profit OATSEA Foundation, talked last night on "Educational apps for free education" at a meeting of the
ACS e-Learning Special Interest Group at
ANU University House, in Canberra. He demonstrated
Teachervirus Open Source technology to provide free education
for developing nations (as entered in the
Global Learning XPRIZE). Harry emphasized that they were aiming to curate the best of on-line educational; materials, not create their own and used as an example the
African Storybook Project's e-books. OATSEA are looking to use
Raspberry PI computers to act as Wi Fi nodes to provide educational content in areas without Internet access. Harry has been speaking at venues in Canberra to get technical and educational help wioth project, including at
ANU TechLauncher,
Orana HotPot, and the
Inspire Centre University of Canberra. Education will also feature at the
ACS Canberra Conference 2015, where
Information Technology Educators ACT (InTEACT) is providing the education stream (I am on a panel).
ps: A speaker and topic is needed for the last e-learning SIG of the year, 5 for 5:30pm, 11 November 2015.
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