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Use case -4: AI-Powered Offline Learning for Higher Education in

Crisis Zones 4.7: Education

Country: Palestine

Organization: Al-Aqsa University, Gaza

Contact Person(s):

Shadia Y. M. Baroud (sy.baroud@ alaqsa .edu .ps)
Abdelrafe Elzamly (abd _elzamly@ alaqsa .edu .ps) - Head of Department of AI and
Computer Science

1 Use Case Summary Table

Category Education

The problem to be War-induced infrastructure damage disrupts higher education; students
addressed lack reliable power, internet and personal computers.

Key aspects of the Education (Education technology, Accessibility, Resilient learning, Offline AI)
solution • Agent-based AI (Multi-agent Systems), Wi Fi mesh, knowledge base
• Portable Raspberry Pi “AI servers” host content & tutors offline.
• Mobile-first access via local Wi-Fi
• AI-driven content recommendation & adaptive tutoring.
• • On-device auto-grading and analytics.

Technology AI agents, Offline AI, Edge computing, NLP tutor, Low-power hardware,
keywords Adaptive learning, Raspberry Pi, Solar-powered servers.
Data availability Mixed: Public OER datasets; Local student-interaction data (private, stored
on-device).
Metadata (type of Text, code snippets, speech (TTS/STT), images/diagrams, assessment logs.
data)
Model training Lightweight transformer-based NLP models (e.g., DistilBERT) fine-tuned
and fine-tuning offline; Matrix-factorisation for recommendations; on-device quantization
(TensorFlow Lite).

Code Reposito- University Moodle, Internal GitLab (private); plan to open-source core
ries modules after security review.

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