Contextualizing ICT Based Vocational Education for Rural Communities: Addressing Ethnographic Issues and Assessing Design Principles - Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2017 - Part II Access content directly
Conference Papers Year : 2017

Contextualizing ICT Based Vocational Education for Rural Communities: Addressing Ethnographic Issues and Assessing Design Principles

K. P. Sachith
  • Function : Author
  • PersonId : 1026173
Aiswarya Gopal
  • Function : Author
  • PersonId : 1026174
Alexander Muir
  • Function : Author
  • PersonId : 1026175
Rao R. Bhavani
  • Function : Author
  • PersonId : 1026176

Abstract

Recently, combining Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for a low literate population is gaining interest, as this can lead to more effective socio-economic development. This strategy can more easily provide employment and bring community wide change because of the improved quality and relevance of education materialQuery. Although TVET providers are present throughout India that uses some ICT, challenges remain for prospective students including illiteracy, language, resource limits and gender boundaries. Providing TVET that is accessible to low-literate people in rural village communities requires a shift in the design of ICT so that it is universally useable, even for communities like tribal India that has a largely oral culture. In this article, we detail the design and development of an ICT driven TVET model for a mostly illiterate audience in rural India and measure its efficacy. Through our ethnographic and usability study with 60 low-literate oral and novice village users, we present the issues faced and the solutions we incorporated into our new model. The results show that users performed better in the vocational course units with the solutions incorporated.

Keywords

Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
421760_1_En_1_Chapter.pdf (626.65 Ko) Télécharger le fichier
Origin : Files produced by the author(s)
Loading...

Dates and versions

hal-01678437 , version 1 (09-01-2018)

Licence

Attribution

Identifiers

Cite

K. P. Sachith, Aiswarya Gopal, Alexander Muir, Rao R. Bhavani. Contextualizing ICT Based Vocational Education for Rural Communities: Addressing Ethnographic Issues and Assessing Design Principles. 16th IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), Sep 2017, Bombay, India. pp.3-12, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-67684-5_1⟩. ⟨hal-01678437⟩
259 View
126 Download

Altmetric

Share

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More