Ask HN: Minimal-bandwidth conferencing for remote education on poor countries

Re:Ask HN: Minimal-bandwidth conferencing for remote educati... by Frauber84 on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:28PM (#23860592)

Those are all good ideas, I am mostly going the fully offline route, however some teachers lack time (too many classes), experience or equipments to produce good content.

VoIP is new to me, I will look at that. I also found that Microsoft Teams has policy settings to limit bitrates for specific users, so that might be also an option to limit bandwidth for students with data limits (between 3-6Gb/month in basic plans around here).

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Re:Ask HN: Minimal-bandwidth conferencing for remote educati... by tsegratis on Thursday July 16, 2020 @01:41PM (#23861532)

Maybe record the teachers as they teach; as a way to produce content?

There may even be a good-enough auto voice->text transcriber for Portuguese?

A double bonus would be having the teachers review the recording/transcribing -- as some teachers (if not all of us), improve after checking recordings of what we do

Blessings on your efforts

I was sitting beside a very impressive Ecuadorean teacher today, with refugees

Sometimes larger change is need for society. Something like having older children teach younger children has been effective in recent history

My most effective technique to-date, has been to pray

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Re:Ask HN: Minimal-bandwidth conferencing for remote educati... by tsegratis on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:45AM (#23868550)

Also good luck, and well done :) nice work you're upto

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