Your search
Results 4 resources
-
This Learning Brief is part of the EdTech Hub Learning Brief Series, providing practical resources for people working to improve the use of technology in education. In this brief, we look at the potential for participatory methods to bring teachers closer to the decision-making table. Insights from those closest to the work shed light on the daily contextual realities that can determine the mechanisms for optimal success or failure of a programme. However, these voices are often neglected...
-
Deploying design-based, mixed-methods research, the study Raising Readers (Phase 1) explores how technology can be best used to strengthen parent and carer engagement with children’s reading in Kenya. In close collaboration with Worldreader, a digital reading organisation, five co-designed modalities (parental training, feedback loops, nudges/messaging, incentives, and reading celebrations) were tested in 14 schools across Nairobi and Kiambu counties over 12 weeks in 2022. The intervention...
-
The Covid-19 pandemic has catalysed the need for technology-enhanced education globally. This is no different in Bangladesh, where the Education Section of the UNICEF Bangladesh Country Office is seeking a better understanding of the role and potential of EdTech to improve numeracy skills among the most marginalised learners, working closely with the government and EdTech Hub to identify how EdTech can best be harnessed to support learning in Bangladesh. This partnership uses the sandbox...
-
Motivation This article discusses the use of educational technology (EdTech) in girls' education at PEAS (Promoting Education in African Schools) schools in rural Uganda during the Covid-19-related school closures. Purpose This article addresses a research gap surrounding the potential use of EdTech to support girls' education, focusing on the barriers to girls' EdTech use and how technology might be used to enhance girls' education in disadvantaged rural areas—specifically their academic...
Filter by our tags
Learners
- Girls and gender (2)
- Minority groups (1)
Educators
Education systems
- Access (1)
- Assessment (1)
- Curriculum and educational content (2)
- Equity (2)
- Governance (1)
- Monitoring and evaluation (1)
- Quality (1)
Hardware and modality
- Phone
- App-based (1)
- Audio (1)
- Blended learning (1)
- Desktop and laptop computers (1)
- Distance education (1)
- Online learning (1)
- Personalised learning (1)
- Radio (1)
- Social media and messaging (2)
- Tablet (2)
- Video (1)
Educational level
- Primary education (3)
- Secondary education (3)
- Vocational education (1)
Within-country contexts
- Fragile and conflict affected contexts (1)
- Low connectivity and/or electricity (1)
- Peri-urban (2)
- Rural (2)
- Urban (2)
Publisher and type
- Journal article (1)
- Learning Brief (1)
- Technical Report (2)
Research method
- Surveys and questionnaires
- Content analysis and thematic analysis (1)
- Design-based research (2)
- Experimental and quasi-experimental research (1)
- Interviews and focus groups (2)
- Literature review, systematic review and meta-analysis (1)
- Mixed methods (2)
- Observation (2)
- (Participatory) Action research (2)
Topic Area
Focus Countries
- Bangladesh (2)
- Kenya (1)
- Malawi (1)
- Sierra Leone (1)
- Tanzania (1)