Nearly 1,000 participants from over
70 countries spread across Africa
and the world joined eLearning
Africa’s 15th international
conference on ICT in education,
training, and skills development
(eLA 2022), 11-13 May, 2022. This
attracted participants mainly from
Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria,
South Africa, Europe, and the United
States of America.
EdTech Hub also hosted a user
testing and design session for a new
Africa EdTech entrepreneurship
course geared toward African EdTech
developers. This course will
take participants through three
learning modules where they will
design EdTech products, understand
foundational literacy and numeracy
skills, then scale up their
products. About 30 young Technology
producers from Africa joined this
feedback session.
eLearning Africa is Africa's largest
conference and exhibition on
technology-supported learning,
training, and skills development
that is held on a rotation basis
each year. The three-day event was
graced by experts, practitioners,
policymakers and investors committed
to the future of education and
training.
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Developing teachers'
knowledge and skills is
really important to meet our
goal of raising learning
outcomes. Teachers in low-
and middle-income countries
often do not have access to
in-service teacher
professional development.
Watch the video for more
recommendations from the
#Tech4TPD webinar.
#CovidEducationNews: Effective
Assessment and Progress
Monitoring in an Online
Environment: A Study in Six
Countries
In collaboration with T4 Education, EdTech Hub undertook a study to
understand more about how teachers and
school leaders in low-and
middle-income
countries assessed student progress
when students were learning remotely
during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The study was undertaken in six
countries – Bangladesh, India,
Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, and
South Africa. The data collection
involved focus group discussions
with two held in each country.
Read the findings here...
Data Collection and
Visualisation Tools
Survey
We are interested in better
understanding the tools to collect
and visualise data that you
currently use, why you use them, and
if these meet all your needs. Your
responses will inform a market
landscape in sub-Saharan Africa and
South Asia.
Thank you very much for taking the
time to answer these questions.
New Research Study on Equity
and SMS-based Personalised
Learning in Kenya Authors: Christina Myers,
Katy Jordan, Phoebe Khagame,
Claire Mongeau and Annette
Zhao
A new study in Kenya aims to
rigorously evaluate and improve the
impact of an EdTech intervention on
different groups of marginalised
learners, with a particular focus on
gender equity.
Find out how...
Guidelines for Mapping
Education Data in sub-Saharan
Africa
Authors: Taskeen Adam and
Irene Selwaness
This recently
published guidance note
navigates different purposes,
challenges and considerations
that were learnt from education data
mapping initiatives in sub-Saharan
Africa.
Read the note...
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Raising Readers: Putting
Parents and Schools in the
Co-design Driver Seat Authors: Asma Zubairi and
Wendy Smith
Worldreader is partnering with
EdTech Hub on one of our research
portfolio studies designed to better
understand how to meaningfully
engage parents in their children’s
learning.
Learn more...
Case study: What matters most for
Teacher Deployment? A case
study for teacher
preferences in Sierra
Leone
We aimed to better understand
why the inequitable
distribution of teachers
persist in Sierra Leone and
how the government may resolve
this problem. This is what we
found out. Read more...
Working
Paper: Understanding
Barriers to Girls’ Access and
Use of EdTech in Kenya During
Covid-19 - This paper focuses on Kenya,
where the Kenya Ministry of
Education Covid-19 Response Plan
highlights the importance of
leveraging EdTech to serve
girls. Read more...
How to design EdTech Programmes
that Lead to Gender
Transformative Change.
Read More...
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to empower people by giving them
the evidence they need to make
decisions about technology in
education.
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