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04/20: Meet Sandy Today class was really interesting. Sandy, who is the founder of IRYNSOFT, joined our class and gave a lot of information about real world of educational products. His application focused on individual learning after school. With VIR2GO apps, students are able to study by themselves and compensate their lack of learning. The approach that learners can download the videos from video pools and learn watching the video is very attractive. However, it seems that there are several things to be added or improved to this idea. First, this apps requires more reliable evidence or results from practical applications to the real learning settings. Next, I feel the quality of offered videos is extremely important and then building the relationship with experts is needed. Last, Sandy said his targets to buy this apps are parents. Therefore, it is required to think about the ways to grab their attractions. For example, workshops or free trials are good. I have questions for this ap...

Today, Paul brought various educational devices that were developed and used to help people in under-served areas. I felt warm to see that a lot of people are donating their talents, time and money for those who can't have an opportunity to study. In particular, the story of "TeacherMate" attracted my attention. Frankly speaking, its appearance is not fancy and attractive to people and even children who live in high-tech society such as U.S. However, it is very effective and useful for children in under-developed world and blind people. The biggest challenge is sustainability of this approach using mobile technology. I feel global cooperation is required to run this project and therefore we should try to grab people's interests. In addition, effective ways to provide consistent power should be studied in-depth. Although the generation of power using bicycle is fresh way, I'm not sure if it is consistent in those areas. Finally, we had time to share mobile applicat...