Presentations on "Education & Collaboration Online" from the 7th GBG Dhaka Meetup on February 16, 2013 at EMK Center in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Event sponsored by Rokomari.com
1. 7th GBG Dhaka Meet-up
Education & Collaboration Online
Saturday, February 16, 2013
EMK Center
In partnership with: Dhaka, Bangladesh Sponsored by:
2. TODAY’S AGENDA
A Digital Day in Student Life (10 min)
Muntasir N. Chowdhury, University Student, IBA
Search Trends for Students (10 min)
Riyad Husain & Salman Hossain, GBG Managers
Google in Education (5 min)
Kazi Monirul Kabir, Bangladesh Country Consultant, Google
TransEd’s Math Solution Project (10 min)
Shah Yasser Aziz, A Level Student
Useful Collaboration Tools for Students (5 min)
Nash Islam, GBG Manager
3. TODAY’S AGENDA
GBG Spotlight:
How Internet Can Improve Education (10 min)
3 GBG Member Presentations
Grameenphone’s Alo Ashbei (10 min)
Sayma Rahman, Mobile Commerce & Digital Content Specialist,
Grameenphone
WhereAreMyBooks.com (10 min)
Tahin Rahman, Co-Founder
Sponsor Talk: Rokomari.com (5 min)
GBG Community Updates & Closing (5 min)
Networking & Refreshments (5 min)
4. A Digital Day in Student Life
Muntasir N. Chowdhury
University Student, IBA
40. Search Trends for Students
Riyad Husain & Salman Hossain
GBG Managers
41. There’s
a
Lot
of
Informa0on
Out
There…
2 Billion
Searches per Day
41
42. …
and
We
Believe
Data
Should
Drive
Decisions
Google’s
mission
is
to
organize
the
world’s
informa0on
and
make
it
universally
accessible
and
useful.
ion
inf ormat e
I fi nd the eful for m
How do e most us
th n?
that is organizatio
y
and m
42
53. Search
for
TERM
PAPER
declined
from
2010
onward
Week
before
semester
final,
rush
for
term
paper
submission
Possible
Reason
for
decline?
Universi0es
now
use
‘plagiarism
checker’.
58. Bangladesh
Search
Trends
for
‘GIFTS’
Valen?ne’s
day
is
s0ll
the
LEADING
Search
trend
for
‘GIFTS’
in
Bangladesh
Worldwide
Search
Trends
for
‘GIFTS’
Christmas
is
the
LEADING
Search
trend
for
‘GIFTS’
Worldwide
70. A New Era in Education
MOOC = Massive Open Online Course
• Open access – no need to register as
students & pay fee
• Large Scale – massive number of
students vs teachers
• Connects distributed instructors &
learners
80. Internet is the largest school
Ø Web application to make Online student Community.
Ø Students of different class will join separate study
groups.
Ø Sharing study problems.
Ø Solving problems altogether with fun.
Ø Open discussion forum.
Ø Regular online quiz contest.
Ø Interactive way of learning.
Ø Challenging any particular student or a student
group.
Ø Earning credit.
81. Internet
is
the
largest
school
Ø Create question anytime
and share in the group.
Ø Anyone can answer the
questions.
Ø After answering credit
will be earned for right
answers.
Ø Create quiz after earning
certain credit.
82. Internet is the largest School
Ø Audio and video
tutorials.
Ø Anyone can upload and
download tutorials.
Ø Learning through playing
games for the children.
Ø Thank you Very Much.
84. What
do
I
get
from
a
MOOC
• Superior
Educa0on
• Creden0als
85. Career
Services
Coursera
&
Udacity
get
Finders
Fee
Your
CV
goes
to
the
big
players
Like
Google,
Facebook,
Twi^er,
AppDirect
and
h^ps://www.coursera.org/account/careerservices
TrialPay
h^ps://www.udacity.com/account/seangs#!/profile
86. Networking
• Communicate
with
the
professors
directly
in
the
Forums
• Get
Help
in
a
Familiar
Facebook
Environment
88. SHAON84
|
Educa0on
Ini0a0ve
INDEPENDENT
SUBSIDIARIES
ONLINE
SUPPORT
EWU ENGLISH
CONVERSATION
CLUB
The
‘Assignment
Portals’
Type
Free
Personal
Academic
Assignment
Showcase
in
Online
for
Students
Access
Free,
No
Registra0on
Required,
Open
for
All
Area
EWUeduca0on
mbaEduca0on
Founded
2004
2010
University
Bus.
Undergrads.
of
EWU
Bus.
Grads.
of
AIUB
Reach
ewueduca'on.shaon84.com
mbaeduca'on.shaon84.com
Web
shaon84.com
Facebook
facebook.com/shaon84web
presenta?on/
Benzir
Shaon,
SHAON84
Founder
-‐Chief
Education
For
GBG
–
Dhaka
on
16
FEB
2013
Initiative
89. The
Answer
of
‘Why’...
• Seang
Trend
and
Mentality
to
‘Share’
Academic
Works
• Provide
Ideas
and
Supports
for
Preparing
Be^er
Assignments
• Auxiliary:
Be^er
Assignments
May
Used
as
Reference
(with
Proper
Credit)
Education
Initiative
90. The
‘amaderEWU’
Story
−
Founded
in
2008
−
Web
Portal
for
EWU
People
−
Contents
−
News
&
Updates
−
University
Club
&
Other
Info
−
Semesterly
Publica0on:
amaderStory
−
Write-‐ups
−
Photographs
etc.
−
Anima0ons
−
Students’
Works
−
Profit
Mo0ve:
Non-‐Earning
−
Currently
Postponed
(Temporary)
Education
Initiative
91. Grameenphone’s
Alo Ashbei
Sayma Rahman
Mobile Commerce & Digital Content Specialist
Grameenphone
93. Alo
Ashbei
started
as
a
compe00on
§
Compe00on
launched
in
2010
§
Ran
for
3
months
§
Massive
interest
in
developer
community
§
196
apps,
3200
registra0ons
§
3
winners,
10
prizes
94. Many
app
stores
but
none
in
BD
§
Device
&
independent
app
stores
are
becoming
popular
§
Customers
in
BD
cannot
enjoy
paid
apps
§
Local
developers
face
complicated
payment
procedure
§
No
planorm
to
serve
local
market
&
groom
budding
developers
§
Huge
demand
for
locally
developed
relevant
apps
95. Internet
is
booming,
why
not
apps?
§
97.5
mn
mobile
phone
users
§
8%
internet
penetra0on
§
Around
50%
internet
users
in
LS
Internet
Grameenphone
network
1.5
mn
§
17%
GP
internet
users
visit
wap.gpworld.com
§
Games,
videos
&
songs
are
top
downloaded
contents
§
Very
few
local
apps
SS
Internet
11.5
mn
96. Alo
Ashbei
www.aloashbei.com
§
Grameenphone’s
partner
is
TTBC
Ltd.
§
Educa0onal
features
-‐
guideline,
tools,
tutorial
videos
etc
§
Community
features
-‐
blog,
forum,
request
for
apps
etc
§
Support
features
–
phone,
email,
chat,
mee0ng
etc
§
QC
features
–
tes0ng,
ra0ng,
recogni0on,
contest
etc
§
Network
APIs
(subscrip0on
model,
SMS
no0fica0on,
MMS
push
etc)
97. If
they
can,
why
not
us?
An
online
photo-‐sharing
and
social
networking
service.
Facebook
purchased
Instagram
for
$1
billion
in
2012
An
“endless
running”
game
chased
by
demon
monkeys
&
apes
A
library
of
3900+
free
educa0onal
videos
A
million
$
game
developed
by
a
Bangladeshi
Khepa Kauwa
98. Let’s
do
it!
§
Let’s
explore
our
crea0vity
§
Let’s
develop
some
amazing
apps
§
Let’s
make
life
easy
§
Let’s
strengthen
our
developer
community
§
Let’s
compete
with
the
world
§
Let’s
make
some
money
118. Coming up for GBG Dhaka
• Monthly Events
§ Mar – GBG at SoftExpo
§ Mar – Women & Web
§ Apr – University event
• Partnering with MapMakers to help
map Bangladesh. Events announced
soon!
119. We need sponsors!
Sponsorship opportunities are available for
our events:
March (Date TBD) – Women & Web
If interested in sponsorship, please talk
to GBG managers Nash, Salman or Riyad