Villages are the backbones of India. These villages are much dependent on agriculture. In villages, less importance is given to education. To increase the villagers’ interest in education, government is facilitating the rural schools by providing many facilities like free food, free books, scholarships and other incentives. Government is also facilitating towards creating/improving a quality education environment. Several researches and studies have taken place for improving village education and to solve the rural education problems. Government has been trying in many ways to develop the rural areas and their education system Many private communities and government agencies are supporting villages. They are putting sincere effort to provide basic infrastructure and to improve the village living style but some villagers are not able to utilize these facilities.Creation of basic necessities is of prime importance for all of them. Rural life lacks quality food, comfortable shelter, good health, finance, guidelines and general knowledge. Hence, villages are not able to recover completely from poverty, illiteracy and unemployment.
Village people are not strong in decision making, problem- solving, mathematical and analytical abilities. One of the main reasons for this situation is, not having the quality and adequate education. Village student needs quality education and guidance towards learning. In this competitive world, books alone are not sufficient to understand the subject matter, gain knowledge and to fulfill their basic education needs. Literally, rural students are quite enthusiastic and hard working in nature. If their efforts are channelized in right direction, then the village growth happens automatically. The experts training, proper guidance, right direction and adequate/expert study materials can improve the rural education. In turn, these improvements will result in removing the poverty, unemployment and many other ills from rural India. So the basic solutions are: proper and quality education, right direction and suitable guidelines.
The rural schools problems which we discussed above may also be solved by standardization and globalization. Education components for rural schools needs to be standardized with quality and standardized materials should globalize with proper technology.
Globalization and standardization materials process should focus on rural education components such
as :
* Expertise education and quality study materials
* Experts guidance and right direction towards learning
* Sharing the knowledge about recent trends and opportunities
* Exposure of modern world
* Proper guidance towards pursuing job oriented courses
* On demand knowledge.
We are proposing some of the advanced technologies and tools to globalize these materials.
They are:
¨ Virtualization technologies
¨ Cloud computing technologies and
¨ Moodle tools.
Virtualization and cloud computing technologies helps in providing on demand education virtually, study materials, libraries, knowledge and guidelines. Moodle helps in interactive learning. Advancement in technologies and tools and its benefits motivates us to look into rural application and to solve some of their problems.
Rural education system needs implementation of e-learning technologies. Rural schools were using the black board to teach particular subject. Later, teaching and training also happens via communication medium like television and radio channels.
Currently, due to advancement in internet technologies with respect to speed and high coverage’s, advanced internet technologies and tools like Virtualization, Cloud technologies and Moodle can also be implemented in the rural education system where students can get on- demand services at anytime and anywhere.
Hence, we are proposing internet- based technologies and tools like Virtualization, Cloud technologies and Moodle tools to the rural school education system. These technologies and tools advancements are beneficial to the society and people in many ways.
Virtualization Technologies for Rural Education
Desktop/Hardware Virtualization for School Education
Desktop/Hardware virtualization can solve money, infrastructure, lack of expertise materials, instant expertise and student’s subject material selection ambiguity problems.Desktop/Hardware virtualization at rural school where any school can access the virtual machines over internet. These virtual machines have the school software, study materials, presentation slides and videos etc. Once the study virtual machine is created for students, any school can access those VMs. This achieves the standard, uniqueness, quality in teaching. Rural students can access these virtual machines which has expert teaching materials. It is a shared common machine for teaching where expertise can place the study materials and teacher can play teaching videos and share the study materials with the students.
Storage Virtualization for School Education
Storage virtualization provides the centralized storage for excellent study material, software, administration information, creative experiments and simulation etc. The rural school having the authenticated internet access to centralized storage where expert can place the important data, study materials, knowledge, guidelines, direction, student information and etc.
Hence we can achieve standards, uniqueness and quality in education system. It is benefiting schools as:
single storage to store experts study materials, to create digital library, to share study materials, to keep track of student administration and education details,
and reduced maintenance.
At the rural school end, only the projector screen and internet connection are needed to access stored data.
Virtualization installation procedure: we can install virtualization technology in rural education system in three easy step.
I. Need to install region-wise datacenter, storage area and servers.
II. Need to create one master virtual machine and storage discs with the subject materials, videos and many?
III. Need to create backup master virtual machine. Create many client virtual machines from master VM and make those available to rural schools.
At the rural school end, teacher can access these materials via internet and present in front of the students using projector screen. It enables student to learn in short duration, saves teachers preparation time, expand the study scope limits etc.
Cloud Computing Technologies for Rural Education
Virtualization is a foundation for cloud computing technology. This technology provides software, hardware, infrastructure and storage as services. Cloud DSaaS and IaaS are especially suitable for rural application. Data Storage as a Service - A teaching database can be established making modern network of teaching resource and digital library building from where many can learn. The cloud can contain online e-books, teaching materials, directions, courseware and various educational videos etc. Infrastructure as a service: To avail various operating systems environment, network and storages. Many services can be provided by the school clouds system such as: online videos, course material, interactive learning games, online training, presentation etc.
Virtualized/cloud computing approach, we can overcome the problems of rural school education system by providing demand Digitized books, expert materials, scientific experiment details, On-line teaching videos, interactive learning games, software, virtual desktops, applications, huge storage etc.
Advanced Technologies and Tools For Rural Education
