Designing e-learning games for rural children in India

Abstract

Poor literacy remains a barrier to economic empowerment in the developing world. Of particular importance is fluency in a widely spoken "world language" such as English, which is typically a second language for these low-income learners. We make the case that mobile games on cellphones is an appropriate solution in the typical ecologies of developing regions. The challenge is to design e-learning games that are both educational and pleasurable for our target learners, who have limited familiarity with high technology. We propose the receptive-practice-activation cycle that could be used as the conceptual model for the designs. We then report how this format could be refined, based on our experiences in the field with three games that have collectively undergone nine rounds of iterations. In particular, it appears that maintaining a distinction between learning and fun to some extent is necessary for effective designs.

Improving literacy in developing countries using speech recognition-supported games on mobile devices

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Design of Intelligent Comic Make System for Educational Application Based on Comic Script Creation

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Improving child literacy in Africa: Experiments with an automated reading tutor

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