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Possibility of Open Education for Lifelong Learning

Ichiro Miyazawa Programme Specialist

UNESCO Bangkok

Vietnam Forum on Lifelong Learning: Building A Learning Society

Hanoi, 6-8 December 2010

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Contents

A. Literacy through Mobile Phones (Pakistan)

B. Open Education for Lifelong Learning

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A. Literacy through Mobile Phones

1. Why mobile phone for Literacy in Pakistan? 2. How was the project implemented? 3. Results ?4. Costs? 5. Challenges 6. Lesson learnt

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1. Why mobile phones for literacy in Pakistan

60 million illiterates

Wider gender gap (M 63% F 36%)

Low efficiency of traditional literacy approaches

Relapse into illiteracy

100 million mobile phone subscribers

Communication is fun and habitual

Anytime and Anywhere, possible to learn

Mobile phone and SMS

Literacy

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2. How was the project implemented?

① Refresh basic literacy course (1st M)

② Learning how to use mobile phones and Starting to

receive and send SMS (2nd M)

③ Receiving and sending SMS, read and practice on the

working book (2nd – 5th M)

④ Reporting to literacy centers and having

Weekly/Monthly Examination (2nd – 5th M)

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3. Results

C: 0-50 B: 51-69 A: 70-100 n=100

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3. Results

C: 0-50 B: 51-69 A: 70-100 n=125

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3. Results

C: 0-50 B: 51-69 A: 70-100 n=25

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4. Costs ( main items for a learner)

Mobile Phone $ 33

SIM card $ 3

600 messages sent (4 months) $

7.2

Sending messages (4 months) $

4.8

Hiring a teacher (5 months per head)$ 7.2

Total $

55.2

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5. Challenges

Cultural and traditional barriers

Limitation of messages in SMS (160 scripts)

Difficulty in typing Urdu

Security situations in Pakistan

Calls from unknown men

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6. Lesson learnt

Habit of communication on written messages

Strong confidence of getting literate and being

connected among them

Sharing learning with family members (sisters,

mothers)

Enhanced Security of youth and women

The devise is supplemental

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B. Open Education for Lifelong Learning

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1. Open source/contents with voluntarism

2. Quicker, Wider, Cheaper: ICT infrastructure

3. Implications to promote open education for Lifelong Learning

1. Open Source (1)

1. Open Source (2)

1. Open Source (3)

1. Open Source (4)

1. Open Source (5)

1. Open Source (6)

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Books1. Open Source

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Newspapers Magazines

Other contents

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2. Quicker, Wider, Cheaper ICT

Cell phone subscriptions Internet users

Source: World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report 2010, ITU.

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WiMAX

LTE

4G

3G ?

Wi-Fi ?

Edge ?

Infrastructure 2. Quicker, Wider, Cheaper ICT

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2. Quicker, Wider, Cheaper ICT

Source: UNDP (1999), Human Development Report 1999, p. 30.

Costs of communication, transportation, hardware

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Devises 2. Quicker, Wider, Cheaper ICT

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Devises

2. Quicker, Wider, Cheaper ICT

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3. Implications to Promote LLL

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3. Implications to Promote LLL

Create a global open source/ site of LLL Effective usages of ICT devises Global / regional networks to be established

and strengthened Continuous awareness raising on LLL

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