Education Report - Education Project in Rwanda Combines Online Classes, Local Help

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Initiative	Kepler	Khan	MOOCs	Mr	Presutti	Students	agreement	and	bandwidth
be	business	class	credits	day	is	limits	no	of
online	says	too	tutoring	watch	with	years

A new experimental program using MOOCs or massive open courses opened recently in Kigali, Rwanda. The Kepler project designed for people in the developing world. It uses provided by foreign universities. It combines these online classes help from local instructors and an internship program. A foundation is helping to finance the first four years the project. The students in the Kepler project pay tuition. Fifty students are taking part in the first in Rwanda. Canadian educational consultant Tony Bates praises the program for giving students a way to earn college . Students can earn academic credit through the Kepler project's with Southern New Hampshire University in the United States. . Bates also praises Kepler for providing local support and in Rwanda. But he says a lack of technology the usefulness of such a system in Africa. He developing countries lack enough Internet service outside major cities. may have mobile phones, but usually with very low . Mr. Bates says it costs one American dollar to an eight-minute YouTube video on a low-cost handset. That about the same as many Africans earn in a . Tony Bates says streaming long video lectures would be expensive for at least the next five to 10 . He says using materials designed for mobile devices may better. He notes examples like math videos from the Academy and courses from the Carnegie Mellon Open Learning . He says these materials are designed for distance learning are more interactive. For VOA Learning English, I'm Carolyn .

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