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Dunia Moja
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Dunia Moja, or "One Earth" in Swahili, seeks to use "mobile technologies to connect international students and faculty to stimulate learning and debate in environmental sciences". [ This innovative project, piloted in 2007, was a collaboration between Stanford University (UK) and three African academic institutions—the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, Mweka College of African Wildlife Management in Tanzania, and Makerere University in Uganda. The project used high-end PDAs to allow students to download and watch video lectures from academic staff in each of the partner universities, and contribute to the discussion and debate through mobile blogging to a central website. The course was centred around global environmental issues and their impact on the African continent and the United States, and brought local perspectives and viewpoints to bear on the course topics.
Faculty and students from the four participating institutions electronically shared course materials, exchanged information, and contributed their own course content. In m-learning in developing countries, Dunia Moja is a pioneering first. As these three interventions (and there are many more out there) show, much is possible if you have higher-end devices and a fast, reliable data network at your disposal. In the land of plenty the sky really is the limit. In the land of less, however, we have fewer choices.
Source: Education for a Digital World: Advice, Guidelines, and Effective Practice from Around the Globe, by BCcampus and Commonwealth of Learning, 2008, (PDF), p.55, ISBN: 978-1-894975-29-2
A Dunia Moja web site is at http://www.the-icsee.org/projects/africa/duniamojo.htm and it is listed at http://fsi.stanford.edu/research/elearning_initiative_in_south_africa_elisa as an ongoing project