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To better understand the use of EdTech interventions as part of response to the Covid-19 pandemic, EdTech Hub commissioned ten small-scale research studies in five low- and middle-income countries: Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya, Pakistan, and Sierra Leone. This paper includes insight into research methodologies across these studies, with particularly interesting findings on how EdTech effectiveness is being measured. A semi-structured thematic analysis further provides insights in relation to...
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This Rapid Evidence Review (RER) provides an overview of the existing literature on the use of radio in education in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The present RER has been produced in response to the novel 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19), and the resulting widespread shutdown of schools. It, therefore, highlights transferable insights that may be applicable to educational responses resulting from the limitations caused by COVID-19. Established approaches to delivering distance...
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EdTech Hub participated in a Girls’ Education Challenge webinar in May 2020, which welcomed stakeholders from countries including the UK, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Nepal. The session focused on issues regarding gender and social inclusion during the Covid-19 crisis. This document provides answers to a list of 10 questions received from stakeholders.
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Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) is a distance education tool that enables educators to use radio broadcasts to direct active learning in the home. This curated list of resources aims to inform and support the use of IRI to mitigate the educational impact of Covid-19.
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This brief explores the use of EdTech to support distance learning in Pakistan. Specifically, it explores ways to provide distance education to children in remote rural areas and urban slums.
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This curated list of resources presents a sample of education technology programmes that effectively reach marginalised learners, including children with SEND, girls, and children in frontier, outermost, and disadvantaged regions. This list provides short summaries of lessons in using EdTech such as radio, television, and mobile phones to reach marginalised learners, emphasising interventions and evidence relevant to the Indonesian context. Keywords: marginalised learners, Indonesia, radio,...
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An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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This article presents the findings of an in-depth study on the implementation of six EdTech-supported projects within the UK Government Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)’s Girls’ Education Challenge portfolio, which aims to improve education for the world’s most marginalised girls. Using primary key informant interviews and secondary data from sampled projects, the study identifies the core components related to the implementation of EdTech within the sampled projects:...
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This Helpdesk report was created in response to a request from the World Bank Malawi Education Team for a curated list of resources on examples of EdTech interventions targeting out-of-school children and adolescents to inform an ASA (Advisory Services and Analytics) output. The ASA output will provide policy options to improve second-chance learning and foundational skills for out-of-school children (OOSC). To provide the World Bank Malawi team with adequate information on the above. This...
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This document was produced in response to a request from the World Bank Mongolia team to: 1. Outline the evidence of effective practices on remedial education generally. 2. Explore appropriate uses of EdTech to support remedial education. 3. Summarise the implications of these findings for Mongolia.
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