Call for Code Starter Kit | Build a COVID-19 remote education app to help teachers
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Social distancing has been identified as a key to slowing the spread of coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19. To that end, schools around the world have taken unprecedented action by closing their facilities. Teachers have been tasked with engaging students through virtual classrooms and fostering remote learning in new and creative ways. Easy access to resources for the world's educators is more critical now than it's ever been.
This starter kit provides a set of resources that can enhance remote education. It includes three key components:
- A sample Loopback Node.js app and tutorial running on IBM Cloud that can function as a quiz/test platform.
- A sample Python app and tutorial that can extract text from instructional videos using Watson Speech to Text so that instructors can provide notes to students who are using video and audio tools as their primary way to learn. Additionally, Watson Language Translator can export those notes into different languages.
- A tutorial on setting up a Skills Network platform to provide a highly configurable, robust virtual classroom environment for instructors that enables course development, virtual assistant help, live classrooms, and more.
Developers who focus on this starter kit can build their solution using widely available open source tools.Β
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