Designing Technology for 287 Million Learners

Author

Chimalakonda, Sridhar ; Nori, Kesav V.

Author_Institution

Software Eng. Res. Lab., Int. Inst. of Inf. Technol. - Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

fYear

2013

fDate

15-18 July 2013

Firstpage

197

Lastpage

198

Abstract

How can we design technology for 287 million adult illiterates in India spread across 22 Indian Languages? In this paper, we summarize our experience towards addressing this challenge over the last 6 years. We briefly present our journey of technology for adult literacy in India emphasizing the key shift in focus between different generations. We then present the design of technology for adult literacy from multiple perspectives of learning methodologies, learning technologies, software engineering and HCI. The main thrust of this paper is to present a holistic perspective of designing technology for supporting education in the context of mass scale and variety.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; human computer interaction; software engineering; HCI; Indian language; Indian learner; adult literacy; education support; human computer interaction; learning methodology; learning technology; software engineering; technology design; Complexity theory; Computers; Education; Human computer interaction; Ontologies; Software; Software engineering; design; human-computer interaction; learning methdologies; learning technologies; process; software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2013.60

Filename

6601903