Åke Grönlund, Yousuf Islam
This paper reports a project working to improve distance education in Bangladesh by means of a low-cost, large-scale interactive learning environment using video, mobile phones, SMS-based tools administered in a learning management system, and innovative pedagogy based on the student-centered learni...
Åke Grönlund, Nena Lim, Hannu Larsson
Developing countries face many obstacles in the process of implementing inclusive education (IE). Effective use of assistive technologies (AT) can help governments in developing countries achieve inclusive education by helping children with disabilities in schools. Despite the importance and positiv...
M. Sirajul Islam, Åke Grönlund
This paper investigates the factors influencing the adoption of mobile phone technology among farmers in Bangladesh. Electronic services are one important measure for rural development and mobile phones is the dominating cellular technology; hence understanding the adoption of this technology is imp...
M. Sirajul Islam, Åke Grönlund
The farmers’ community in Bangladesh is one of the most deprived ones in terms of economy and access to social facilities. An agricultural market information service (AMIS) can be one of the important tools for reducing such social inequality by integrating the farmers with their markets more effici...
M. Sirajul Islam, Åke Grönlund
M. Sirajul Islam, Åke Grönlund
Making farmers in developing countries more informed about market opportunities is generally considered an important step toward development of the agricultural sector and increasing individual farmers' income. Mobile phones are a useful technology for delivering such information, but are farmers re...
M. Sirajul Islam, Åke Grönlund
M. Sirajul Islam, Åke Grönlund
Åke Grönlund, Annika Andersson, Mathias Hatakka
This paper compares and analyzes three cases where mobile technology is developed and used for everyday learning in developing countries. Preliminary results from field studies and tests are presented and analyzed in terms of the technical, professional, social, cultural and organizational challenge...
Åke Grönlund, Yousuf Islam
We developed low-cost, effective ICT to improve distance education in Bangladesh, using video and SMS to implement innovative pedagogy and to create a large-scale interactive learning environment for students, hitherto not existing. We develop sustainable strategies for ICT use in education includin...
Åke Grönlund, Yousuf Islam
This paper reports an effort to make distance education in developing countries inclusive by introducing interactivity in an easily accessible manner. A Learning Management System used with communication enabled by mobiles has been developed. This is used in combination with video and innovative ped...
Grönlund, à ke; Swedish Business School at Ãrebro University, Sweden; ake.gronlund@oru.se, Lim, Nena; Curtin University, Australia; N.Lim@curtin.edu.au, Larsson, Hannu; Swedish Business School at Ãrebro University, Sweden; hannu.larsson@oru.se
Developing countries face many obstacles in the process of implementing inclusive education (IE). Effective use of assistive technologies (AT) can help governments in developing countries achieve inclusive education by helping children with disabilities in schools. Despite the importance and positiv...
Mathias Hatakka, Anders Avdic, Åke Grönlund
Free-to-use learning material, open content (OC), is ascribed the potential to change the playing field in regards to every individualâs right to education. OC is, however, not much used in developing countries. The aim of this paper is to study how actors involved in content development affect re...