TY - RPRT TI - Learning continuity in response to climate emergencies: Pakistan's 2022 floods AU - Mazari, Haani AU - Baloch, Imdad AU - Thinley, Sangay AU - Radford, Kate AU - Kaye, Tom AU - Perry, Freya AB - Building on EdTech Hub's preliminary insights, this extended resource explores Learning continuity in response to climate emergencies following the 2022 Pakistan floods. The intention is to support stakeholders in identifying scalable and feasible ways of using EdTech in response to Pakistan’s 2022 floods and improving learning responses in future climate emergencies. We identified these approaches by interviewing flood-affected parents and teachers, government education officers, development partners, local NGOs, and international experts in education in emergencies. We find that during the different phases of response to the emergency, communities’ needs and infrastructural realities keep changing. However, existing responses to support learning have not been able to address these needs at scale. An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org CN - 0135 DA - 2023/// PY - 2023 LA - en M3 - Technical Report PB - EdTech Hub UR - https://docs.edtechhub.org/lib/42XI4RCK KW - _r:AddedByZotZen ER - TY - RPRT TI - Pakistan Digital Learning Landscape Analysis AU - Zubairi, Asma AU - Khalayleh, Abdullah AU - Baloch, Imdad AU - Mazari, Haani AU - Kaye, Tom AU - Groeneveld, Caspar AB - The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a dramatic increase in the role educational technology (EdTech) plays in education delivery. As schools have closed worldwide, EdTech has played a critical role in keeping children learning. However, as the pandemic has persisted, the optimism around EdTech has plateaued. It has given way to fears that children who are using EdTech are not learning, and that the most marginalised children are falling further behind due to the emergence of a digital divide. On average, only 34% of households across Pakistan have digital access and only 14% have access to laptops or computers. The access challenge is further intensified by demographics including gender, locality, and socio-economic status. This divide must be addressed if EdTech is to support effective learning for all children across all contexts in Pakistan. If left unaddressed, EdTech interventions can exacerbate a digital divide that further compounds the disadvantage of marginalised groups. Across the world, UNICEF has supported governments globally to deploy EdTech tools in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. To support this endeavour in Pakistan, UNICEF Pakistan is building evidence on digital learning to support the EdTech ecosystem in Pakistan. Evidence in this landscape review will support stakeholders including the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training (MoFEPT) and UNICEF Pakistan to develop long-term strategies to fortify Pakistan’s EdTech ecosystem. The purpose of this landscape review is to identify the challenges, emerging trends, and opportunities for engagement within Pakistan’s EdTech ecosystem. To do this, the landscape analysis collected and analysed data (both primary and secondary, and quantitative and qualitative) relating to technology-facilitated learning in Pakistan. In this way, this landscape analysis can both inform MoFEPT and UNICEF’s strategies and provide a resource for stakeholder (e.g., federal, provincial, and regional government agencies, development partners, and the private sector) engagement in technology-facilitated learning in Pakistan. Keywords: marginalised learners; out-of-school children; EdTech tools; Pakistan; foundational skills; infrastructure; MoFEPT; UNICEF An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org CN - 0093 DA - 2022/03/04/ PY - 2022 LA - en M3 - Technical Report PB - EdTech Hub UR - https://docs.edtechhub.org/lib/HEXCEXFK KW - _r:AddedByZotZen ER - TY - RPRT TI - Learning continuity in response to climate emergencies: Preliminary insights on supporting learning continuity following the 2022 Pakistan floods AU - Mazari, Haani AU - Baloch, Imdad AU - Thinley, Sangay AU - Kaye, Tom AU - Perry, Freya AB - This resource is based on preliminary insights from EdTech Hub’s emerging study of Learning continuity in response to climate emergencies following the 2022 Pakistan floods. The intention is to support stakeholders to identify feasible ways of using EdTech in response to Pakistan’s 2022 floods. The design adopted for this resource balances generating primary insights from flood-affected parents and teachers quickly and complementing these with insights from the existing evidence base on education in emergencies globally and nationally. EdTech Hub’s study of learning continuity in response to climate emergencies is ongoing. An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org CN - 0134 DA - 2022/// PY - 2022 LA - en M3 - Evidence review PB - EdTech Hub UR - https://docs.edtechhub.org/lib/IHTU7JRT KW - _r:AddedByZotZen ER - TY - RPRT TI - Desk Review of Technology-Facilitated Learning in Pakistan: A review to guide future development of the technology-facilitated learning space in Pakistan AU - Wilson, Sam AU - Khalayleh, Abdullah AU - Baloch, Imdad AU - Kaye, Tom AB - During the Covid-19 pandemic, EdTech has been used in many different ways to keep children learning in Pakistan. This has ranged from educational radio broadcasting to children in remote mountains, to TV channels being used to deliver classes nationwide. Yet, as the pandemic has developed, this picture has become more complex. Optimism in EdTech’s promise has given way to fears that the most marginalised children — particularly those who cannot access technological solutions — are falling further behind. Even those children who are able to use EdTech may not be learning. In short, a pre-existing digital divide has become more pronounced now that education delivery has had to increasingly rely on technology. This divide must be addressed if EdTech is to support effective learning for all children in all contexts in Pakistan. This desk review argues that the only way to realise EdTech’s potential is to recognise its shortcomings. Technology alone will not help children learn. EdTech’s role is as one part of a wider education system. Technology facilitates learning with support from key actors such as parents, teachers, and school leaders and with sustained political support and supporting infrastructure. This review provides an overview of Pakistan’s technology-facilitated learning landscape that caters to the learning needs of children aged 6–16. It sets out key EdTech-related features, challenges and trends, in addition to highlighting prominent EdTech organisations and tools in Pakistan. Keywords: infrastructure; low tech; policy; out-of-school children; marginalised learners; Pakistan; MoFEPT; UNICEF An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org CN - 0071 DA - 2022/// PY - 2022 LA - en M3 - Evidence Review PB - EdTech Hub UR - https://docs.edtechhub.org/lib/6FN5VTP7 KW - _r:AddedByZotZen ER - TY - RPRT TI - A Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for Blended Learning: Pakistan Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training AU - Khalayleh, Abdullah AU - Baloch, Imdad AU - Dele-Ajayi, Opeyemi AU - Kaye, Tom AB - An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org DA - 2021/03/31/ PY - 2021 LA - en M3 - Working Paper PB - EdTech Hub ST - A Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for Blended Learning UR - https://docs.edtechhub.org/lib/XBPZPS3P KW - _DOILIVE KW - _EdTechHub_Output KW - _MELA_seen KW - _cover:v3 KW - _r:AddedByZotZen KW - _zenodo:submitted KW - _zenodoETH ER - TY - RPRT TI - EdTech in Pakistan: A Rapid Scan AU - Baloch, Imdad AU - Taddese, Abeba AB - EdTech Hub country scans explore factors that enable and hinder the use of technology in education. This includes policies, government leadership, private-sector partnerships, and digital infrastructure for education. The scans are intended to be comprehensive but are by no means exhaustive; nonetheless, we hope they will serve as a useful starting point for more in-depth discussions about opportunities and barriers in EdTech in specific countries and in this case, Pakistan. This report was originally written in June 2020. It is based primarily on desk research, with quality assurance provided by a country expert. CN - 0035 DA - 2020/06/30/ PY - 2020 LA - en M3 - Country Scan PB - EdTech Hub SN - 10 ST - EdTech in Pakistan UR - https://docs.edtechhub.org/lib/FIQDEKCI KW - C:Pakistan KW - F: Country scan KW - _DOILIVE KW - _EdTechHub_Output KW - _MELA_seen KW - _cover:v1 KW - _zenodo:submitted KW - _zenodoETH ER - TY - RPRT TI - Pakistan Topic Brief: Providing Distance Learning to Hard-to-reach Children AU - Baloch, Imdad AU - Kaye, Tom AU - Koomar, Saalim AU - McBurnie, Chris AB - 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. CN - 0026 DA - 2020/06/17/ PY - 2020 LA - en M3 - EdTech Hub Helpdesk Response PB - EdTech Hub SN - 17 ST - Pakistan Topic Brief UR - https://docs.edtechhub.org/lib/9TKV7H6E KW - F: Helpdesk response KW - L:Out-of-school populations KW - LP: English KW - _DOILIVE KW - _EdTechHub_Output KW - _GS:indexed KW - _MELA_seen KW - _cover:v1 KW - _r:CopiedFromEvLib KW - _zenodo:submitted KW - _zenodoETH KW - dode_eth-src-eth KW - dode_eth-trf2-dode ER - TY - RPRT TI - Learning continuity in response to Pakistan’s 2022 floods: Policy brief AU - Mazari, Haani AU - Baloch, Imdad AU - Thinley, Sangay AU - Radford, Kate AU - Perry, Freya AU - Kaye, Tom AB - An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org CN - 0160 DA - Forthcoming PY - Forthcoming LA - en M3 - EdTech Hub Policy briefing PB - EdTech Hub UR - https://docs.edtechhub.org/lib/333BJPIR KW - _r:AddedByZotZen ER -