Under the Hood of an EdTech Study in Kenya: Implementation challenges, successes, and lessons learnt

In the years following a global pandemic that left 1.6 billion learners out of school, the global learning crisis has grown more urgent. Governments worldwide have sought technology-enabled education platforms that can support higher quality, resilient education systems. One cheap and easy tool for delivering remote educational support is basic mobile phones, which represent a potentially cost-effective and remote platform for adapting a range of proven pedagogical methods. To do so successfully, programme delivery should consider three key factors that include (1) careful training on delivering pedagogical methods in a phone setting, (2) Appropriate monitoring systems to ensure weekly delivery fidelity and, (3) an appropriate data and/or delivery infrastructure to enable programme monitoring. If done successfully, mobile phone programmes can present education ministries with an efficient delivery option for quality education at a fraction of the cost of higher-tech solutions. An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org

Report Type

Policy Brief

Institution

EdTech Hub

Date

2023

Language

en

URL

https://docs.edtechhub.org/lib/XRGSHEUJ

Call Number

0175

Rights

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Extra

DOI: 10.53832/edtechhub.0175 ZenodoArchiveID: 8370318 ZenodoArchiveConcept: 8370317

Citation

Büchel, K., Crossley, C., Cullen, C., & Letsomo, T. (2023). Under the Hood of an EdTech Study in Kenya: Implementation challenges, successes, and lessons learnt [Policy Brief]. EdTech Hub. https://doi.org/10.53832/edtechhub.0175

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