A note on OCW
All the course material we will be teaching in Africa is available on MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW). Several advanced students will participate in AITI's self-learning program by using OCW. Unfortunately, a big constraint in East Africa is bandwidth.
There are currently no fiber optic undersea cables serving the East African coast. As a result, most outgoing internet connections are through satellite links. A country like Uganda has a total outgoing bandwidth of about 10Mbps, shared by a population of 27 million. Downloading PDF files or video lectures from MIT is not going to be feasible.
Instead, we are tentatively planning on copying the entire OCW site onto a hard disk and installing it at a Kenyan university. Local students will be able to access it without going over slow satellite connections.
There are currently no fiber optic undersea cables serving the East African coast. As a result, most outgoing internet connections are through satellite links. A country like Uganda has a total outgoing bandwidth of about 10Mbps, shared by a population of 27 million. Downloading PDF files or video lectures from MIT is not going to be feasible.
Instead, we are tentatively planning on copying the entire OCW site onto a hard disk and installing it at a Kenyan university. Local students will be able to access it without going over slow satellite connections.
posted by Steve Weis at 8:33 PM
1 Comments:
I think the idea is that we're going to drop a drive into their server.
I don't want to give up my iPod.
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