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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Education Technology News: Implementation of Nokia-UNESCO Mobile Learning Initiative by AGAHI Pakistan to Drive Professional Development of Public School Teachers

Education Technology News: Implementation of Nokia-UNESCO Mobile Learning Initiative by AGAHI Pakistan to Drive Professional Development of Public School Teachers


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December 28, 2011

Implementation of Nokia-UNESCO Mobile Learning Initiative by AGAHI Pakistan to Drive Professional Development of Public School Teachers

By Calvin Azuri, TMCnet Contributor

Nokia (News - Alert) Pakistan, AGAHI, and UNESCO Islamabad announced the implementation of the “Mobile Learning Project for Teacher’s Professional Development” program to drive professional development of public school teachers across remote locations. The collaboration between AGAHI, UNESCO, and Nokia will enable Nokia to extend its mobile phones and applications “Nokia Education Delivery" (NED) in the project from UNESCO which focuses on use of ICT for the professional development of public school teachers.

NED has been transformed into an open source solution which has effectively improved livelihoods since 2011. The company developed NED to drive the use of its mobile phone in accessing and downloading videos and other sources ofeducational tools from an education library. The program has already been implemented successfully in the Philippines, Tanzania, Chile, and Colombia. Its use has shown an increase in educational results among students who displayed increased retentive capabilities as well.
The new collaboration is an extension of the agreement between UNESCO and Nokia international level which was signed last year, to drive implementation of mobile technologies for driving "Education for All" objectives. Under the terms of the agreement, Nokia will develop applications and other Mobile solutions which enable accessing of information and improve learning on a global scale.
The "Mobile Learning for Teachers" Nokia Education Delivery application project which will be implemented via AGAHI will make it possible for UNESCO to provide educational material and tools via mobile phones to teachers who are deficient in both training and resources. This project will allow remotely located public school teachers to train themselves on the same level of proficiency as other competent teachers.
The training and capacity building courses will be delivered via video files which will be relayed in a step by step process based on the pre-determined curriculum over the phones which will be provided to the teachers. Regular tests on the training material will be conducted through SMS. High scoring teachers will be awarded free mobile top ups. Aggregated test results after the successful completion of the course will be used to certify top scoring teachers in the final workshop.

Calvin Azuri is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Calvin’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Rich Steeves

Saturday, December 24, 2011

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Nokia, UNESCO Join Hands

Nokia Pakistan and UNESCO in Islamabad has launched a project “Mobile Learning Project for Teachers’ Professional Development” on Thursday.

As part of this program, UNESCO and Nokia are joining hands, where Nokia is providing its mobile phones and application “Nokia Education Delivery (NED) for UNESCO’s project on ‘use of ICT for professional development of public school teachers’ in remote areas.
Since 2011 NED has turned into an open source solution to improve livelihoods and support of such mobile learning innovations to be filled with life in Pakistan, The project will be implemented by AGAHI, a UNESCO partner and a non-profit foundation working in the area of communication and media policy design.
Nokia developed NED to allow using a mobile phone to access and download videos and other educational materials from a constantly updated education library. Operating in hundreds of schools and having reached millions of students in the Philippines, Tanzania, Chile and Colombia, Nokia Education Delivery has been shown to improve study results and increase retention among students.
This collaboration is part of the agreement signed last year between UNESCO and Nokia at international level to promote the use of mobile technologies to further the objectives of “Education for All”. As part of this agreement Nokia is developing applications and new Mobile technologies offering access to information and enrich learning environments at global level.
In Pakistan, through the project “Mobile Learning for Teachers” Nokia’s Education Delivery application will help UNESCO to enable the delivery of high- quality educational materials to teachers who lack training and resources though mobile phones giving an opportunity to teachers to train themselves on the same level as professionally competent teachers.
Nokia Education Delivery facilitates education in a fun and interactive way. In addition to the NED software, Nokia offers program implementation support for the benefit of Pakistan’s education landscape. The Nokia Education Delivery software system has two modules. The first module is installed on a Nokia mobile phone and contains a browse able catalog of educational videos.
The second module is installed on the computer of the education administrator. It manages the organization’s mobile video library, so that videos can be added, deleted and updated. It also provides information on the usage of different videos.
This unique pilot project for Pakistan has been initiated by UNESCO and AGAHI aims at using Mobile phones as medium for training teachers, where the teachers in remote areas will be equipped with devices, SIMs, a software solution and high quality educational content.
The course for training and capacity building will be developed into video files and will be transmitted step by step according to curriculum on the phones provided to teachers. Over the course of the training period, teachers will be tested via SMS on regular basis and as an incentive, those who will score highest in tests will receive free mobile top ups. At the end of the course, test scores of all teachers will be aggregated and the passing teachers will be awarded certificate in the final workshop.
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Nokia and UNESCO Islamabad have launched “Mobile Learning Project for Teacher’s Professional Development” on Thursday as formal collaboration took place in the presence of senior government officials,Nokia and UNESCO representatives.
Originally published as: Nokia,Unesco join hands
As part of this programme,UNESCO and Nokia are joining hands,where Nokia is providing a technology solution known as Nokia Education Delivery to the UNESCO project ‘use of ICT for professional development of public school teachers’ in remote areas.
In Pakistan,through the project,Nokia will help UNESCO to enable the delivery of high- quality educational materials to teachers who lack training and resources.
Through mobile phones teachers will be given an opportunity to train themselves. Nokia developed the Nokia Education Delivery programme to allow using a mobile phone to access and download videos and other educational materials from a constantly updated education library.
Speaking about the project,UNESCO Director,Kozue Kai Nagata said,“In 21st century public-private partnerships are enjoying growing attention and support as a new and sustainable modality for development.
We are confident to collaborate with Nokia to provide us with the best platform to train public school teachers. Nokia Education Delivery programme is fit to match our need of delivering quality training to a large number of public school teachers across Pakistan through the project named “Mobile Learning for Teachers”.
Amir Jahangir,President AGAHI and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum,shared his views on the launch that “Pakistan is a knowledge starved country,where universal education has its own challenges. To meet the target of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) on education,Pakistan needs to address its education challenges through innovation and technology which can reach to a larger population with cost effective solutions”.
This unique pilot project for Pakistan has been initiated by UNESCO and AGAHI while Nokia Pakistan will enable the project implementation by providing not just Nokia devices but a complete solution via its Nokia Education Delivery programme.

Nokia, UNESCO Join Hands

Nokia, UNESCO Join Hands

Nokia, UNESCO Join Hands

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Nokia Pakistan and UNESCO in Islamabad has launched a project “Mobile Learning Project for Teachers’ Professional Development” on Thursday.
As part of this program, UNESCO and Nokia are joining hands, where Nokia is providing its mobile phones and application “Nokia Education Delivery (NED) for UNESCO’s project on ‘use of ICT for professional development of public school teachers’ in remote areas.
Since 2011 NED has turned into an open source solution to improve livelihoods and support of such mobile learning innovations to be filled with life in Pakistan, The project will be implemented by AGAHI, a UNESCO partner and a non-profit foundation working in the area of communication and media policy design.
Nokia developed NED to allow using a mobile phone to access and download videos and other educational materials from a constantly updated education library. Operating in hundreds of schools and having reached millions of students in the Philippines, Tanzania, Chile and Colombia, Nokia Education Delivery has been shown to improve study results and increase retention among students.
This collaboration is part of the agreement signed last year between UNESCO and Nokia at international level to promote the use of mobile technologies to further the objectives of “Education for All”. As part of this agreement Nokia is developing applications and new Mobile technologies offering access to information and enrich learning environments at global level.
In Pakistan, through the project “Mobile Learning for Teachers” Nokia’s Education Delivery application will help UNESCO to enable the delivery of high- quality educational materials to teachers who lack training and resources though mobile phones giving an opportunity to teachers to train themselves on the same level as professionally competent teachers.
Nokia Education Delivery facilitates education in a fun and interactive way. In addition to the NED software, Nokia offers program implementation support for the benefit of Pakistan’s education landscape. The Nokia Education Delivery software system has two modules. The first module is installed on a Nokia mobile phone and contains a browse able catalog of educational videos.
The second module is installed on the computer of the education administrator. It manages the organization’s mobile video library, so that videos can be added, deleted and updated. It also provides information on the usage of different videos.
This unique pilot project for Pakistan has been initiated by UNESCO and AGAHI aims at using Mobile phones as medium for training teachers, where the teachers in remote areas will be equipped with devices, SIMs, a software solution and high quality educational content.
The course for training and capacity building will be developed into video files and will be transmitted step by step according to curriculum on the phones provided to teachers. Over the course of the training period, teachers will be tested via SMS on regular basis and as an incentive, those who will score highest in tests will receive free mobile top ups. At the end of the course, test scores of all teachers will be aggregated and the passing teachers will be awarded certificate in the final workshop.

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Agahi to implement the Nokia-UNESCO Mobile Learning initiative to deliver quality education to teachers Nokia Pakistan and UNESCO Islamabad launched the project “Mobile Learning Project for Teacher’s Professional Development” today as formal collaboration in the presence of senior government officials, Nokia representatives and UNESCO representatives. As part of this program, UNESCO and Nokia are [...]