Distance Learning as a Tool for Poverty Reduction: A Focus on Two Countries, China and Mexico

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Distance Learning as a Tool for Poverty
ReductionA Focus on Two Countries, China and
Mexico
Co-author M. Elizabeth Murray, MIT LINC

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Richard C. Larson, Mitsui Professor of
Engineering Systems Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts USA LINC
2007, Dead Sea, Jordan
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Our Focus

• Networked ICT Centers, Directed by Universities
  and Located in Underserved Communities --
• to Reduce Poverty and Enhance Economic
  Development via EDUCATION

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Two Countries and Two Highly Respected
Universities

• China Tsinghua University
• Mexico Monterrey Technological University

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Monterrey
Nuevo Leon
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The Story of the Ten-Year Old Girl
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E-Learning in Rural China
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Outline

• From Telecottages to Telecenters to Networked
  Distance Education System
• Our Trips to China and Mexico
• The Tsinghua University Education-Aiding-the
  Poor Project
• Monterrey Technical Universitys Social
  Development Program
• Detailed Examples from China
• Detailed Examples from Mexico
• A Framework for Continuing Improvement and
  Evaluation

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From Telecottages to Telecenters to Networked
Distance Education System

• Tele-cottages in Scandinavia 1980s
• Village Information Centers in Pondicherry,
  India
• Perus community computer centers
• Brazils Computer Science and Citizenship Schools
• Costa Rica, the Little Intelligent Communities
  Project (LINCOS)
• South Africa and the Gaseleka Telecenter
• India, the Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal
  Sciences University (TANUVAS) created a small
  network of three rural tele-centers

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The Milkman Scenario Any Village Can be on
the Internet!

• Bus delivers and picks up bits! (Just like
  old-fashioned milkman in USA in 1950s.)
• Those of us who fly in airplanes do the same
  thing!

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Our Trips

• China, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia, October 2004
• Mexico, Neuvo Leon State, May 2005

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The Tsinghua University Education-Aiding-the
Poor Project
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Huade County Computer-Equipped Community
Learning Center
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Learners and Leaders Associated with Huade County
CLC
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Three-Level Networked Organizational Structure in
Yuanzhou District
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Students Using Multi-Media in a Village Middle
School in Yuanzhou District
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Blended Learning
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More Blended Learning
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Monterrey Tec Universitys Social Development
Program
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The Four Phases of Implementation of Monterrey
Tecs CLCs, with Feedback
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Hierarchical Organizational Structure of CLCs in
Mexico
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Summary of Educational Offerings of Monterrey
Tecs CLC Program
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Elizabeth Murray speaking with a student from the
Virtual High School Program
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Learners and Staff at Dr. Arroyos CLC 1.
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CLC located in rural school in village of La
Asuncion
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Summary of Key Descriptors of Four Implementations
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Summary of Key Descriptors of Four
Implementations II
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Thank You!

Richard C. Larson ltrclarson_at_mit.edugt
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