Day 2

Mobile Education
Programme
Mobile Education Purpose
Provide Teacher Professional development training focusing on
ICT Integration in the teaching and learning
Improve the quality of teaching across all subjects
Put more emphasis on Maths and Science teaching
Provide access to educational digital content & resources
Vodacom Foundation Partners
Organisation
Contribution
Vodacom
Initiator, building renovations, installations, train the
trainer programme, content hosting
Department of Basic Education
(DBE)
Coordinator, develop and driver ICTs in education
policy
Provincial Departments of Education
(PDoE)
Housing facilities (ICT resource centres), building
maintenance, policy implementer (ICTs in
education), Trainers and Centre Managers
Microsoft
All Microsoft software required for the programme,
Microsoft Certificate training
Mindset
All educational content
CISCO
Academy training for the youth
IDT
Youth IT Skills Programme
MICT Seta
Youth IT Skills Programme
Publishers
(Digital) educational content
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Mobile Education Project Offering
• ICT Equipment
– 61 Centres of the 135 DBE Teacher Centres nationwide equipped and connected (+ 20 more planned for 2015)
– 894 Schools equipped and connected
• Connectivity
– Centres connect via Microwave and schools connect via 3G
– Vodacom Foundation pays for the internet connectivity
• Professional Development
– Core Trainers Training (ICT Integration)
– Webinars (Maths and Science)
– Centre Manager Capacity Building Training
• Content
– Digital Classroom Portal : (Online Educational Resources, Articles, Forums)
– Education Portal : Vodacom E-School
– Publisher Partnership : Via Afrika, Macmillan, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Pearson,
Shuter and Shooter
– Literacy organisations: Fundza
• Bursary Programme : Vodacom offers bursaries to 110 students annually to study in fields in which there are skills
shortages. Top-achieving students from disadvantaged communities are chosen to study in the ICT and engineering
sectors.
Offerings
Content distribution: 61 – 80 Teacher Centres
nationwide
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Content distribution: www.digitalclassroom.co.za
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Content distribution: Vodacom E-School
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Zero-rated Education Sites
• The following sites were zero-rated on 12th Aug
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www.digitalclassroom.co.za
www.digitalclassroomresoures.co.za
www.mindset.co.za
www.everythingmaths.co.za
www.everythingscience.co.za
www.thutong.doe.gov.za
www.funzalushaka.doe.gov.za
www.education.gov.za
• The new Vodacom education portal is on www.vodacom.co.za/eschool
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Content Challenges
• Too much of it/Duplication
• Credibility
• Usability
– format
– Interoperability
• Copyright
• “Ordinary” versus Premium content
• Training on content
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Going forward: Focus on output & impact
Value added services
Measure
impacts
Content &
Literacy
Further
expansion
Make results
visible
Teacher
training
Partnerships
Monitoring &
Evaluation
Technology
Flywheel
builds
momentum
Positive
results impact
stakeholders
Number of Teacher Centres and schools connected
Going
forward: Focus on training and content
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80
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80
Equipment
Training
60
60
Content
Connectivity
40
40
20
20
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2009
0
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2010
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3
2011
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2012
5
2013
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7
2014
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2015
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2016
Increase training activity at the Centres
Centre
Manager
Workshop
E-Learning
Specialist
Webinars
Intelligent
Practise
Continuous
Training
and Activity
at the
centres
Enhance content distribution and use
Mobile Education in partnership with the publishers and literacy
organisations aims to:
– Develop a digital content distribution platform that includes Digital
Rights Management (DRM) allowing publishers to donate digital
resources to specific centres.
– Roll-out of publishers’ specific as well as jointly developed training
programmes for principals and teachers using the physical and
online infrastructure of the Mobile Education platform.
– Develop the Mobile Education contribution to the Get South Africa
Reading campaign to fill the Centres with (e-)books and readers
We are interested to add to this list following the discussions at this
Digital Summit!
Thank you