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Governments all over the world have closed learning institutions because of the Covid-19 pandemic, including in Kenya. This has exacerbated the global learning crisis and made it more difficult for teachers, parents, and caregivers to include children with disabilities in quality education. To ensure learners with disabilities were not left behind during Covid-19 school closures, eKitabu partnered with EdTech Hub…
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We set out to investigate the existing and potential use cases of open-source, modular ‘building blocks’ to build digital platforms for education in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Building blocks fall into two main categories: teaching and learning (e.g., learning management systems) and education system management (e.g., data collection tools).
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The first of a trilogy of Theories of Change (TOCs) that focuses on learners as the main beneficiaries of an increasingly technology-enhanced education system in Bangladesh. Initially created with stakeholders to support the monitoring and evaluation of programmes designed to offer distance learning during the 2020 Covid-19 school closures, the TOC describes how access to educational activities of different modalities (TV, Radio, Smartphone, online platforms etc.) should lead to improved...
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This systematic literature review was guided by the overarching aim of establishing the categories of EdTech that may be appropriate to support the learning of children with disabilities aged 4–12 years in low-and middle-income countries. A critical review of the published literature was deemed essential as the field of disability and EdTech (mirroring larger trends in disability and educational research) has remained dominated by anecdotal commentaries and strong personal assertions, but...
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EDTECH AND COVID-19 10 THINGS TO KNOW Covid-19 has reshaped our world. In education, mass school closures have accelerated the global use of education technologies. Yet the benefits do not reach everyone. Since the start of the pandemic, EdTech Hub and its partners have been researching and applying evidence on what works in technology for education in different contexts. Here…
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In 2020, EdTech Hub began a collaboration with Learning Equality, a nonprofit organisation supporting the creation, adaptation, and distribution of Open Educational Resources (OER) in disconnected environments. The following post by Learning Equality’s Global Curriculum Specialist, Shivi Chandra, explores how individual efforts to address some of the challenges in adopting OER could become more powerful, receive recognition, and build upon…
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Implementing a virtual learning environment is a challenge in any situation. But how do you implement one in a country with few resources, lacking technological infrastructure, and no experience with virtual learning? In response to Covid-19, Zanzibar is planning to implement a virtual learning environment (VLE) to complement its print-, radio-, and TV-based distance education programmes. In Zanzibar, an autonomous…
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In the initial rush to respond to school closures, countries focused on rolling out distance education. Policy-makers now realise that effective distance education requires robust data generated via high-quality monitoring. This blog highlights the findings of a brief synthesising effective practices in monitoring distance education. Since March 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted 36 million learners in Bangladesh. Schools closed…
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What is the Specialist Network? We’re an international group of experts with substantial practical experience in developing and implementing education and EdTech programmes around the world. The Specialist Network allows the EdTech Hub to draw on a wide range of context-specific and subject-specific experience and expertise. We have a particular focus on supporting the Hub’s Helpdesk, providing additional capacity to…
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With the support of EdTech Hub, members of the UNESCO Chair in ICT4D have worked hard with colleagues across the world over the last six months to craft an innovative and practical report on how governments can learn from their experiences of Covid-19 to create resilient education systems that use digital technologies wisely, effectively and appropriately. We are all very…
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