HITCH

HITCH是一家位于安大略滑铁卢的教育技术公司，为地球仪的偏远社区提供创新的电子学习解决方案。该等社区往往因科技及不可靠的互联网连接而服务不足，而全球COVID-19疫情迫使网上上课更令情况雪上加霜。 HITCH平台提供了一个能够为多达200名学生提供服务的数字图书馆，而无需更新基础设施。该平台的重点是为那些受社会隔离政策和远程生活影响的人发现，使用和整合高质量的教育，职业，心理健康和其他资源，帮助教育工作者将内容转化为学生的教学和学习过程。HITCH的使命是成为全球所有服务不足的学校的教育视频平台。为此，需要研究开发一种机器学习驱动的通用课程过滤器，该过滤器应用诸如年级、学科、主题、教科书、学习成果、概念和语言等本地参数来动态标记、分类和安排其不断扩大的世界级教育视频库。Conestoga研究团队将与HITCH合作，识别和汇总大量的课程源材料，然后为所有这些材料建立学习成果。以后的阶段将侧重于创建一个软件工具，通过创建一个围绕附加到各种URL的标签构建的管理系统，该软件工具能够获取课程的具体学习成果。该研究项目的最后阶段涉及将现有的移动的设备重新用于HITCH智能社区热点，以扩展平台的功能。

HITCH is a Waterloo, Ontario based educational technology company innovating e-learning solutions for remote communities across the globe. Such communities are often underserved by technology and unreliable internet connectivity which has been further compounded by the global COVID-19 pandemic forcing classes online. The HITCH platform provides access to a digital-library-in-a-box capable of serving up to 200 students, without the need for infrastructure updates. The discovery, usage, and integration of high quality educational, vocational, mental-health and other resources for those impacted by social isolation policies and remote living is the focus of the platform, helping educators turn content into teaching and learning processes for students. HITCH's mission is to become the go-to educational video platform for all underserved curriculums globally. For this to happen research is needed to develop a machine learning driven Universal Curriculum Filter that applies local parameters such as grade level, subject, topics, textbooks, learning outcomes, concepts and languages to dynamically tag, categorize, and arrange their expanding curated library of world-class educational videos. The Conestoga Research Team will work with HITCH to identify and aggregate large amounts of curriculum source material, and then build learning outcomes for all that material. Later phases will focus on the creation of a software tool able to fetch specific learning outcomes for a curriculum by creating a management system built around tags attached to various URLs. The final phase of the research project involves the re-purposing of existing supplied mobile devices into HITCH smart community hotspots to expand the platform's capability.