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August 2023
In this issue:
- Our featured stories
- EdTech Hub Blogs on our work in digital personalised learning, teacher professional development, messaging and more.
- Resources
- Mapping National Digital Learning Platforms
- Tackling Coloniality in EdTech
- Research Instrument packs from our work in Tanzania.
- News and Alerts
- EdTech Evidence for Entrepreneurs Course for Sub-Saharan Africa
- Register for the mEducation Alliance Symposium
- Researcher and Entrepreneurs Matchmaking event
Newsletters 2023
May 2023
In this issue:
In this special issue of our newsletter, discover EdTech Hub’s trending top 5 must-reads of the moment! Including insights into the challenges and opportunities of using technology to support education during emergencies situations; guidence on developing a national EdTech strategy and more…
April 2023
In this issue:
- Report – Learning Continuity in Response to Climate Emergencies: Pakistan’s Floods
- Resources
- Utafiti Elimu Tanzania Evidence-sharing forum
- MEWAKA in Tanzania: Emerging findings on tech-supported teacher professional development
- Access to and use of technology by primary school teachers: A survey in the 23 regions of Madagascar
- Where do teachers go, and where do they stay? – A blog on lessons learnt from our work on teacher movements in Sierra Leone
- First Lessons from our Study: Optimising Messaging for Returns to School
- Publications
- Testing EdTech Interventions in Bandarban: Key Findings from the EdTech Hub Sandbox
- Teacher Deployment in Sierra Leone: Lessons Learnt and Moving Forward
- School-to-school Mobility Patterns and Retention Rates of Payroll Teachers in Sierra Leone
- And more…
March 2023
In this issue:
We are pleased to announce that Malawi has been added to our country engagement portfolio.
Over time, we have built strong relationships with the government of Malawi and with implementing partners seeking to scale up reform activities related to tech-enabled Teacher Continuous Professional Development (TCPD) and Digital Personalised Learning (DPL) which are two of EdTech Hub’s focus areas.
February 2023
In this issue:
- PODCAST – Implementing Adaptive Learning Programs: Lessons from EdTech Hub (World Bank’s Edutech Podcast)
- VIDEO – Considering EdTech and climate emergencies: EdTech Hub’s research response to Pakistan floods
- Our resources on:
- Developing a national EdTech strategy
- Using WhatsApp to Teach at the Right Level in Pakistan
- What we are reading
- Publications of Cost-Effectiveness in EdTech
- Cost-Effectiveness and EdTech: Considerations and case studies
- Cost-Effectiveness EdTech Paper 1: A position piece on how the sector can make progress
- Cost-Effective EdTech Paper 2: Good practice
- What drives value for money in technology-enabled activities of Girls’ Education Challenge Projects
- And more…
January 2023
In this issue:
- Celebrating EdTech evidence on International Day of Education
- VIDEO – Considering EdTech and climate emergencies: EdTech Hub’s research response to Pakistan floods
- Our resources on:
- Critical questions for EdTech to support education reform in East and South Africa
- Digital learning transitions: Hybrid learning in El Salvador
- Gender equality: Using technology to improve education for marginalised girls—lessons in implementation from the Girls’ Education Challenge
- Foundational learning: Engaging parents and caregivers in EdTech is critical to foundational learning in Kenya
- And more…
Newsletters 2022
August 2022
In this issue:
- BLOG: Using technology to support teacher continuous professional development in Sierra Leone by Iman Beoku-Betts, Daniel Plaut, and Rabia Tanweer
Our resources on:
- DATA: Resources and lessons on our work in Data for Decisions
- PERSONALISED LEARNING: Lessons and resources on our work in Digital Personalised Learning
- EVIDENCE LIBRARY: School Leaders’ Preferences on School location in Sierra Leone, STEM Skills initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean
- EVENTS: We are co-leading Action Track 4 (Digital learning and transformation) at the Transforming Education Summit (16-19 September 2022)
July 2022
In this issue:
- EdTech and the Global Learning Crisis: GPE blog by our Executive Director Verna Lalbeharie, and our Director of Research David Hollow
- Our stories:
- Why and how we should monitor hybrid learning
- Data access laws in Pakistan, Blockchain technology in Education
- And more…
June 2022
In this issue:
- Reflections from eLearning Africa 2022 in Kigali
- Our stories:
- NEWS:: Read the new joint report from T4 Education and EdTech Hub focusing on effectiveness of assessment and monitoring in Covid-19.
- Video from the #Tech4TPD webinar
- Studies in Kenya; newly released guidelines for mapping data in sub-Saharan Africa; raising readers.
- And more…
May 2022
In this issue:
- Find some reflections from the CIES 2022 in Minnesota
- For our stories:
