Internet Technology in Local and Global Communities
MIT OpenCourseWare packages the materials behind the MIT-African Internet Technology Initiative, a program that sends MIT students to teach programming and internet technology in African schools over six-week summer sessions. The course includes a spring 2005 preparatory seminar that trained the student teachers, plus a snapshot of the actual summer 2005 program: a Java-based programming curriculum taught in classrooms and labs, paired with an entrepreneurship seminar introducing students to applying information technology in business. Materials cover teaching approaches for community-oriented and independent learning projects, alongside the technical content itself. This is documentation of a real field-teaching program rather than a polished lecture series, useful for anyone interested in how MIT students structured a hands-on computing and entrepreneurship curriculum for African secondary and university students. Offered under MIT's open license with no cost to access.