HITCH

HITCH是一家位于安大略省滑铁卢的教育技术公司，为全球偏远社区创新电子学习解决方案。这些社区往往得不到技术和不可靠的互联网连接的服务，全球COVID-19大流行迫使课堂在线，这进一步加剧了这种情况。HITCH平台提供了一个数字图书馆，可以为200名学生提供服务，而不需要更新基础设施。该平台的重点是为受社会隔离政策和偏远生活影响的人发现、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过程。HITCH的使命是成为全球所有服务不足课程的首选教育视频平台。为了实现这一点，需要研究开发一个机器学习驱动的通用课程过滤器，它应用本地参数，如年级水平、学科、主题、教科书、学习成果、概念和语言，来动态标记、分类和安排他们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构建学习成果。后期阶段将集中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，可以为课程获取特定的学习结果。研究项目的最后阶段涉及将现有供应的移动设备重新用于HITCH智能社区热点，以扩展平台的能力。

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.