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SUDAN ADULT EDUCATION OCT 2006. Educational Material & Low Bandwidth Constrains in Khartoum Mobile Computer Center as a Case Study. Dr. Nuha Modather Bhairy Khartoum University . Case study Mobile then center in Sudan 1998-2006. Introduction :
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SUDANADULT EDUCATION OCT 2006 Educational Material & Low Bandwidth Constrains in Khartoum Mobile Computer Center as a Case Study Dr. Nuha Modather Bhairy Khartoum University
Casestudy Mobile then center in Sudan 1998-2006 Introduction: networks has many advantages, one of them is to share database and Source software at one time in different nodes; this method of distribution of data enhance the educational team in Adult education in Ministry of Education in Sudan with the collaboration with NGO’S organization to educate the illiterate women in the rural area in Sudan by making use of e-learning.
The AID‘S organization one of the social community organization has the project of mobile computer center. Which moves from area to another and stays about two months in each village .
The network of the mobile computer center was setup, the educational material was designed with full multimedia and saved on a computer at the main building in the head office of the organization at Khartoum city, and of course the mobile center has a Sarver and telephone line to connect them.
Methods: The stared number of the computer center was 11 Pcs , connected through cat 5 to the 16 port hub, the Sarver was PIII, windows XP, with modem 56 kps, and the Sarver connected via telephone line. That was Sep2003 At the beginning there were no problem with the first 4-5 computers to be connected to the Sarver at the head office. The rest of the computers finds difficulties to display the materials . The areas covered was :- 1\Al swra No 7(75),8(62),9(45),17(32)student. 2\Alreef Alshemalie 22 student.
Later a web site was designed and the educational material was loaded on it. Internet connection was used. This was at Aug2005 The cost of internet connection per hour is more than three times the local net work connection . The mobile computer centre faced the same problem at afternoon session. The area was:- 1\Aldaeen ,Darfur East,322 student
Some areas needed to be reached but No telephone line connection found except by mobile phone which was very expensive ,so we tried to down load the material on the Sarver &then shared it but no interactive discussion online . The area was :- 1\Alrashad ,Alnuba Mountain 107 student .
Results Analysis: When more than 5 computers connected, this message Request Time Out. Appear. The number of student was:665 students . The aimed group was 550,000 woman during the period Sep2003-Sep2006
Conclusion: The access to the material from the internet in much better but expensive Wireless network may be good alternative .