A description of work done by our lab for the seminar "Sharing Inspiration in Higher Education" at the Finland Pavilion on the World Expo site in Shanghai.

1. Technologies for Development and Learning
--- innovations grow from
concrete challenges
Ruimin Shen, Weikai Xie and Carsten Ullrich
( rmshen/wkxie/ullrich_c@sjtu.edu.cn),
e-Learning Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
Oct 25, 2009

2. Outline

3. Challenge 1 – Highly unbalanced
education resource deployment
China’s higher education “985 program”
• 39 top (among ~2000 )universities entitled
• Biased government funding and research grants
Unequal distribution by province
No. of 985 program
universities
Province
10 Beijing
3 Shanghai, Hubei, Shaanxi, Hunan
2 Jiangshu, Tianjin, Liaonin, Shichuan, Shangdong
1 Anhui, Zhejing, Helongjiang, Fujian, Gangsu, Congqing,
Jilin
0 Remaining 15 provinces

4. disproportional admission opportunity to top
universities
• Tsinghua University's 2010 by-province admission
plan
How technologies can help tackle this problem?
Province Assigned quota Population
Beijing 243 197M
Zhejiang 42 517M
… … …

5. Skyclass – Mitigate geographical
education resource gap
Ning Xia
University
IP network for
interactivity
Tibet University
Satellite link for
multimedia content
broadcast
SJTU
Augmented Standard
Natural Classroom
Innovation: Right mix of transmission technologies

6. PPClass – P2P Streaming based live lecture
broadcast system
Traditional way to deliver
live lecture
P2P Streaming
Issue: Need huge
bandwidth and server cost
when scale-up
Advantage: scale-up easily
with only marginal burden
on server

7. www.go2class.net
– Open access to SJTU continuing education, powered
by PPClass technology
Innovation: Open the access of premium education resource to
massive audience with a scalable and cost-effective streaming
media technology

8. Challenge 2 - Lack of accessible
form of life-long learning for working adults
Huge demand of life-long learning in China
• Current educational demographic vs “economic
structure upgrade” mission
However, most working adults are unable to
squeeze time to come to a formal class!

9. Mobile learning will be a natural fit for life-long education!

10. MobiClass – access live lecture/recorded
lecture from smart phones
Download at kiosk
Download from web
site
Live streaming
Support all major
Symbian phones

11. PPClass Mobile –
m-Learning on the new generation of smart phones
Touch screen operation
Support Android (iPhone support is coming)

12. Today’s Learning Management Systems (LMS):
Lack of information about the user across learning
systems and learning contexts
Learner/teacher cannot choose learning services
Intelligent infrastructure incorporating widgets and
existing LMSs across system boundaries
 The ROLE Approach – right on track
 truly personalizing learning
© www.role-project.eu

13. ROLE Vision

14. Join ROLE and innovate!
The ROLE Alliance
Program gives you the
opportunity to be a part of
the ROLE Project
• http://www.role-project.eu/AllianceProgram
ROLE LinkedIn
• http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1590487&trk=hb_side_g

15. Thank you, and welcome toThank you, and welcome to
Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityShanghai Jiao Tong University
Contact: rmshen@sjtu.edu.cnContact: rmshen@sjtu.edu.cn