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Telecommunications
Vodacom Starts Operating in Mozambique
in December
In the terms of the tender, which winner was anounced
on 28 August last year, Vodacom had until 30 August this
year to start operating, but it took 12 months to negotiate
link tariffs with the Mozambican telecommunications company
TDM.
Source: All Africa Global Media,
09.03
Author: Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique |
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Internet / Web learning
MIT Courseware Everyware
When MIT announced to the world in April 2001 that it
would be posting the content of some 2,000 classes on
the Web, it hoped the program - dubbed OpenCourseWare
- would spur a worldwide movement among educators to share
knowledge and improve teaching methods. MIT will learn
a few things, too, just as it did during OpenCourseWare's
first year. One lesson of the beta test revolved around
access, which in some parts of the world is costly and
slow. A second issue: lack of assistance to Web-based
students.
MIT's bold experiment of posting free course content on
the Web, including video lectures, class notes, tests
and course outlines, has proved a success. In September,
MIT will officially launch OpenCourseWare, with 500 courses
ranging from philosophy to electrical engineering and
computer science. Initially, some professors had concerns
about the program creating additional work and endangering
intellectual property rights. By making the program voluntary,
most objections were addressed. Still, administrators
and professors are quick to note that the Web is no substitute
for an MIT education. Distance education students don't
have access to perks such as teaching assistants and live
interaction with professors. Nevertheless, OpenCourseWare
is popular worldwide. The courseware will be translated
into Spanish and Portuguese, and similar translation requests
have come from the Middle East, Ukraine and Mongolia.
Anne Margulies, OpenCourseWare's executive director, said
MIT would like to see the evolution of self-managed learning
communities through the software. Challenges to the program
include poor technology infrastructure in developing countries
and profiteering schemes.
Note: As a graduate of MIT, I remember observing the growing
trend of professors putting their course materials on
the web. It was convenient for the students as well as
the professors & teaching assistants. Anyone could
go to Google.com or any another search engine and find
the lecture notes and even digital videos of the lectures.
So while MIT took a bold step with OpenCourseWare, it
was kind of an inevitable one, too.
For those wondering how students and alumni feel about
the fact that non-students will see the same materials
and lectures as students, some of us see an upside to
it. That is, professors will feel pressure to provide
added value to tuition-paying MIT students. Hopefully
the interaction between instructor and students will become
more dynamic as a result.
Source: Article from "Wired"
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World AIDS
Day
World AIDS Day is the international day of action
on HIV and AIDS which takes place every year on
1 December.
Date: 1-Dec-2004
Link: World
AIDS Day |
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Hexxagon
happens to be one of those games that's easier to
play than it is to explain. You play as the red
diamonds, and your goal is to take over the board
by leaping into the spaces adjacent to your opponent's
watery globules.
Source: Neave
Games
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