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C³TO: an architecture for implementing a chat based call centre and tutoring online

Author: Butgereit, L ; Botha, RA Date: May 2010 The mobile phone is quickly becoming the personal computer of Africa. In Africa the cell phone is widely used, for example, in banking, crime prevention, tracking applications for identification documents, and education. C³TO is an architecture ... Read more
C³TO: enabling mathematics teachers to create a presence on mxit and other chat areas

Author: Butgereit, L ; Botha, RA Date: Mar 2010 To the mathematics teachers who are comfortable with expressions like Ө, φ, Σ and Δ t, the terms “mxit”, “chatter bot”, “xmpp”, and “jabber” may sound like Greek to them. Although recent research has shown that primary and secondary school ... Read more
Dr Math gets MUDDY: the "dirt" on how to attract teenagers to Mathematics and Science by using multi-user dungeon games over Mxit on cell phones

Author: Butgereit, L ; Leonard, B ; Le Roux, C ; Rama, H ; De Sousa, M ; Naidoo, T Date: May 2010 The current group of teenagers has been called many things – some of the terms unprintable in respectable publications. However terms such as the “thumb tribe” (because they can type faster on their cell phones with their thumbs than adults ... Read more
Dr Math moves to C³TO: Chatter call center/tutoring online

Author: Butgereit, L ; Botha, RA Date: Jan 2010 Dr Math is a mobile tutoring system which has been running in South Africa for three years. It links primary and secondary school pupils to tutors in mathematics. The pupils use the popular Mxit chat client on their cell phones. The tutors ... Read more
From Mxit to Dr Math

Author: Botha, Adèle ; Butgereit, L Date: Feb 2013 In 2007, Laurie Butgereit, a researcher at the CSIR Meraka Institute, started to use Mxit as a communication channel to tutor her son in mathematics. Her son and a number of his friends logged in, and Dr Math was born. At the inception of Dr ... Read more
Scaling a mobile tutoring project: strategic interventions in C3TO

Author: Butgereit, LL ; Botha, RA Date: Sep 2010 Scalability is a critical characteristic for successful software solutions - especially networked software and social software. Scalability can be defined as how well the software platform which provided help to primary and secondary school ... Read more

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