Using her pension and small donations, she has traveled to remote villages to lecture, distribute educational materials and dispense simple medical care.
Getachew is lecturing Remote Sensing and GIS in Debre Tabor University.
Pupils in remote villages watch televised lectures before tackling exercises with a local teacher.
There is evidence that delivering the audio from a lecture in combination with the presenter's slides can be an effective means of delivering lectures at remote sites, and may even be as effective as traditional lectures[ 3, 4].
Collaboration on lecture content can take place mainly in two forms – face-to-face(F2F) collaboration where the students and the teacher collaborate by being in the same location while the lecture is going on, and online collaboration where the participants take part in remote collaboration on the lecture contents via online platforms.
Had there been a Nobel Prize for a bundle of achievements that embraced Workers' Educational Association lecturing in remote, industrially wrecked parts of Cumbria and equally committed educational missions to isolated, disadvantaged Nigerians, Ghanaians and Sudanese, then Thomas Hodgkin would surely have been a contender.
Recently, synchronous e-learning, which enables students to attend a lecture from remote locations and learn interactively through real-time communication, has become more popular.
Reached over email, Rekimoto tells me about some of the things his invention can be used for, and why it's worthwhile: "remote presentation / giving a lecture at a classroom, remote participation at a conference (especially for asking questions for presenters), remote doctor's hospital rounds, training," he lists coldly.
His remote students will get the same lectures as students paying $50,000 a year, the same assignments, the same exams and, if they pass, a "statement of accomplishment" (though not Stanford credit).
The mastermind of the scheme is Leon Ewing, a teaching artist who works in remote schools in Western Australia and lectures part time at Murdoch University.
