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Teaching Computer Lit. in Developing Countries?

Posted by Cliff on from the non-physical-reading-material dept.

Pro777 asks: "I am a US Peace Corps volunteer currently teaching 'Computer Studies' at a High School in the Republic of Samoa, in the South Pacific. Anyways, myself and other IT teachers are having a difficult time finding a good digital textbook to teach basic skills such as basic computer architecture, word processing, and using spreadsheets. Real textbooks are cost prohibitive, and a lot of what is found is too high level for our students. Any suggestions?"

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  1. Re:MIT Open Courseware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Are you kidding? He's asking for a tutorial on how to turn on a computer and open a new Word document. Do you see anything in the MIT EECS curriculum that looks remotely like that? Don't you think that's the sort of thing MIT freshmen are expected to know already?!?

    Anyway, to throw in something positive with my empty criticism -- this looks like a potentially helpful site. And if you Lunix weirdos want to complain about the Microsoft focus, well, you have vi so write your own.