Some education experts warn, though, that the universities could damage their reputations if the programs in China came to be viewed as lowering standards or profiting from charging high tuition, but relying on local, low-cost teaching staffs.
These publicly available data, software and materials present excellent opportunities for relatively low-cost teaching.
In the US, practical US education in medical residency is mandatory in some areas, but in medical graduation there is no curriculum model for its practical and low-cost teaching.
UNESCO's Digital services for education in Africa report shows that ICT in education in general, and mobile learning in particular, offers various benefits including access to low-cost teaching resources, added value compared to traditional teaching and a complementary solution for teacher training.
Mentors work with approximately 4 or 5 teachers every day, supporting their continuous professional development, English language proficiency, class and lesson planning, and development of low-cost teaching aids using local materials.
Other notably tech-focused education developments in Europe include the rise of the Raspberry Pi microcomputer (coming out of Cambridge, U.K). — as a low cost platform for teaching kids about coding and tinkering (albeit one that has been embraced most by the maker community).
We designed a low cost workshop to teach surgical residents basic skills of vascular anastomosis.
There are vast numbers of apps for babies and children, available free or at low cost: educational apps to teach letters, numbers, shapes, sign language; apps featuring television characters like Dora the Explorer; game apps (Angry Birds is a favorite with all ages); and art and music apps.
A relatively low cost option is to teach parents to optimise their responsive behaviours (for example, responding to the child's focus of interest) and provide rich language input (for example, expanding the child's attempts to talk).
The program can be used as a low cost laboratory educational tool for teaching groundwater flow with solute transport processes, such as saline intrusion, salt lake and salt dome problems.
The center offers filmmaking workshops at low or no cost taught by people in the business.
