TextTETEA — An SMS-based education service

Authors

Michael A. Neumann, Santa Clara UniversityFollow
Keegan Wincewicz

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2-16-2017

Publisher

IEEE

Abstract

Tanzania has experienced a rapid increase in the number of secondary school students but has struggled with the quality of education provided at public schools. While teachers and textbooks can be scarce in classrooms, particularly in rural areas, basic mobile phones are widespread across the country. In this paper we present TextTETEA, an SMS-based service that provides education content to Tanzanian students. We describe the TextTETEA system architecture, features currently available, and usage data during initial field testing.

Comments

2016 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)

Date of Conference: 13-16 October 2016

Conference Location: Seattle, WA, USA

Recommended Citation

Neumann, M., & Wincewicz, K. (2016). TextTETEA — An SMS-based education service. 2016 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), 312–315. https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2016.7857298