| LoColms:an innovative approach of enhancing traditional classroom form of education by promoting web-based distance learning in the poorer countries |
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| 作者姓名： | NGARAMBE Donart 潘云鹤 陈德人 |
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| 作者单位： | Department of Computer Science，Department of Computer Science，Distance Learning School of Zhejiang University Zhejiang University，310027 China，PhD student in Zhejiang University，from Rwanda Tel.S.A.，Zhejiang University，310027 China，Hangzhou，310027 China |
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| 摘 要： | INTRODUCTIONEducationingeneralisatdifficultcrossroadsinmanydevelopingcountries,particularlytheleastdevelopedandlow incomecountries.Theemergenceofdistanceeducationprovidesanim portantwaytoaddresstheirconcern ,butforrea sonsrangingfromeconomicaspectstothele…
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LoColms:an innovative approach of enhancing traditional classroom form of education by promoting web-based distance learning in the poorer countries |
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| Abstract: | There have been numerous attempts recently to promote technology based education (Shrestha, 1997) in the poorer third world countries, but so far all these have not provided a sustainable solution as they are either centered and controlled from abroad and relying solely on foreign donors for their sustenance or they are not web based, which make distribution problematic, and some are not affordable by most of the local population in these places. In this paper we discuss an application, the Local College Learning Management System (LoColms), which we are developing, that is both sustainable and economical to suit the situation in these countries. The application is a web based system, and aims at improving the traditional form of education by empowering the local universities. Its economicability comes from the fact that it is supported by traditional communication technology, the public switching telephone network system, PSTN, which eliminates the need for packet switched or dedicated private virtual networks (PVN) usually required in similar situations. At a later stage, we shall incorporate ontology and paging tools to improve resource sharability and storage optimization in the Proxy Caches (ProCa) and LoColms servers. The system is based on the client/server paradigm and its infrastructure consists of the PSTN, ProCa, with the learning centers accessing the universities by means of point to point protocol (PPP). |
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| Keywords: | LoColms Web based distance learning Ontology Paging PSTN Proxy caches PPP |
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