Hi Christoph, Tracy, everyone,<br><br>Some time ago I spoke about a course around ICT4D we are setting up in Amsterdam.<br>Here is the plan we came up with, we would be very pleased to hear what you think of it.<br><br>Cheers,<br>
Christophe<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
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Week 1: 7-12 January (calendar week 2).<br>
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5 lectures a 2 uur (11-13.00) dit zijn de echte ICT 4 D colleges. B.v.<br>
but tbd<br>
1) Introductie: vak en thematiek (allemaal)<br>
2) ICT in development (voorbeelden en issues) (CIS)<br>
3) ICT4D technology (challenges) (CS)<br>
4) ICT4D technology (solutions) (CS)<br>
5) ICT4D Software engineering (CS)<br>
4 lectures a 2 (10-11.00, every day, but not Monday)<br>
Students present papers, ideas etc.<br>
4 lectures a 2 uur (13-15.00, every day, but not Monday)<br>
Guest speakers (Chris Reij, ...) (mostly CIS oriented)<br>
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Week 2: 15-19 January (calendar week 3).<br>
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4 lectures a 2 uur (11-13.00)<br>
Ma: Education: XOs, schools, teaching material etc<br>
Di: Voice technology: (CS)<br>
Wed: An XO deployment in Suriname (very concrete)<br>
Thu: Voice technology for markets in XYZ (very concrete)<br>
after the lecture, students get the task of forming groups, and<br>
formulating the challenge they want to<br>
tackle, and the method they want to do it..<br>
2 practical sessions 2 uur (13-15.00. Monday (XO) + Tuesday (VoiceTech)<br>
1 lectures a 2 uur (13-15.00 Vrijdag. Groups present themselfs and their<br>
ideas).<br>
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Week 3: 22-26 January (calendar week 4).<br>
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Individual meetings with groups.<br>
1 lectures a 2 uur (13-15.00 Vrijdag) Progress report<br>
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Week 4: 28.1. - 1.2. (calendar week 5).<br>
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Individual meetings with groups.<br>
1 lecture a 3 uur (bij voorkeur Vrijdag 9.00) *scheduling because of<br>
conflict with my other course.<br>
Presentation of project results<br>
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no exam.<br>
---------------- this implies schedule:<br>
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We hebben geen idee hoeveel studenten we kunnen verwachten. Zeg maar 40.<br>
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Week 1: 7-12 January (calendar week 2).<br>
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5 lectures a 2 uur (11-13.00)<br>
4 lectures a 2 (9-11.00, every day, but not Monday)<br>
4 lectures a 2 uur (13-15.00, every day, but not Monday)<br>
<br>
Week 2: 15-19 January (calendar week 3).<br>
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4 lectures a 2 uur (11-13.00 Mo- Th)<br>
2 practical sessions a 2 uur (13-15.00. Monday + Tuesday)<br>
1 lectures a 2 uur (13-15.00 Vrijdag)<br>
<br>
Week 3: 22-26 January (calendar week 4).<br>
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1 lectures a 2 uur (13-15.00 Vrijdag)<br>
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Week 4: 28.1. - 1.2. (calendar week 5).<br>
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1 lecture a 3 uur (bij voorkeur Vrijdag 9.00)<br>
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no exam.<br>
</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><pre cols="72">Christophe Guéret Ph.D. (<a href="mailto:c.d.m.gueret@vu.nl" target="_blank">c.d.m.gueret@vu.nl</a>)
<a href="http://www.few.vu.nl/%7Ecgueret/" target="_blank">http://www.few.vu.nl/~cgueret/</a><br><a href="http://semweb4u.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://semweb4u.wordpress.com/</a><br>Postdoctoral researcher working on LATC (<a href="http://latc-project.eu" target="_blank">http://latc-project.eu</a>)
Knowledge Representation & Reasoning Group
Department of Computer Science, AI
VU University Amsterdam</pre>
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