Connected Education

Connected Education Vodafone Power to you Supported by the Vodafone Foundation Introduction Our themes Key findings Appendices Contents 4 Introduction 7 Connected Education 10 Current issues and obstacles in education 14 Education initiatives making use of digital technologies 15 Our themes 15 Theme 1: Access to online education platforms/apps 27 Theme 2: Teaching on digital literacy 40 Theme 3: Empowering teachers 45 Theme 4: Providing education in refugee camps 55 Key findings 58 Appendices Vodafone Connected Education B Introduction Our themes Key findings Appendices Access to Gender gap education Primary age gender Unequal access to gap persists and education depending becomes more on income and origin apparent as education levels increase 263 million primary 757 million adults and secondary and 115 million youth children out of school cannot read or write a simple sentence; two-thirds of them are women Key challenges to be addressed The SDG target of Quality Education will be challenging to meet and a number of important gaps still have to be addressed. Sub-Saharan Africa Refugees Biggest gap in 16.1 million refugees, primary school over half of whom are enrolment rates under the age of 18 34 million Of these, only of the 57 million 2.3 million out-of-school primary have access age children live in to schooling sub-Saharan Africa Vodafone Connected Education 3 Introduction Our themes Key findings Appendices About Vodafone Foundation About Vodafone Group The Vodafone Foundation invests in the communities in which Vodafone Group Plc is one of the world’s largest mobile Vodafone operates and is at the centre of a network of global communications companies by revenue. We have a significant and local social investment programmes delivered by 28 local global reach through our activities, subsidiaries, joint ventures, Vodafone Foundations. The Foundation is dedicated to mobilising associated undertakings and investments. We provide voice communities around the world to improve their lives. To achieve this and data services to 470 million people worldwide, with 75%* of objective the Foundation uses its charitable giving and its privileged our customers living in emerging markets. Mobile technology access to Vodafone’s networks, technology, customers and is already a vital tool in many people’s lives and our ambition employees to empower people with the necessary tools to make is to increase access to Vodafone’s mobile services to further a difference in the world. The Vodafone Foundation is a registered improve people’s livelihoods and quality of life and contribute to charity in England and Wales (charity registration number 1089625). sustainable living. Authors About Arthur D. Little Arthur D. Little has been at the forefront of innovation since 1886. We are an acknowledged thought leader in linking strategy, innovation and transformation in technology-intensive and converging industries. 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All rights reserved * As at 31 December 2016 Vodafone Connected Education 4 Introduction Our themes Key findings Appendices Foreword Connected Education by Vittorio Colao Chief Executive, Vodafone Group At Vodafone, we believe that the ability to access global This report shows that expanding these services in Vodafone’s information via an affordable device in the hand has the power to markets and territories could benefit over 85 million people by truly create a step change in education in developing countries. 2025 and create economic benefits to society of USD 7.3 billion That is why we are passionate about supporting the Sustainable annually. Mobile digital technology is a very powerful tool that can Development Goal to ensure inclusive and quality education for all make a huge difference in education, but it is essential we all work and promote lifelong learning. in partnership with other industry players, NGOs, schools and governments to achieve these significant outcomes quickly and in There are 2.5 billion people in developing countries who have a sustainable way. access to the internet today, almost entirely via mobile devices, and this number is growing rapidly. This connectivity creates an Vodafone and our Foundation are committed to supporting, with opportunity to democratise education – with much higher quality our partners, a step change in global education. and much lower costs – for children, girls, refugees and small entrepreneurs alike. For children in sub-Saharan Africa, the best global educational resources can be delivered at the most rural level, making them free to be used online or offline. For girls, connectivity can help to address cultural barriers that prevent Vittorio Colao, Chief Executive, Vodafone Group them from accessing traditional education. And for refugees, connectivity can bring education into their camps, providing them with the possibility of a better future in the camps and when back in their home country. As a result, for all young people everywhere, connectivity can provide not only the means to learn new digital skills but also the platform to create their own business. Once introduced, digital learning will not be restricted to the young, as digital skills can be invaluable for every age, providing an opportunity to overcome loneliness, isolation and weakness. Vodafone Connected Education 5 Introduction Our themes Key findings Appendices Foreword Connected Education by Dr Mary Mendenhall Teachers College, Columbia University Mary Mendenhall is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the International and Comparative Education Programme at Teachers College, Columbia University. There are 263 million primary and secondary-aged children high-touch approaches. In my own experiences, implementing a and youth currently out of school and millions more in school new professional development initiative for teachers working in who struggle to acquire basic reading, writing and maths skills a refugee camp in Kenya, which combines teacher training, peer before they graduate. Reaching these children and the first Goal coaching and mobile mentoring through WhatsApp, we have 4 Quality Education target for the new Sustainable Development heard from teachers that the mentoring component has proven Goals, which seeks to ensure that all girls and boys complete free, helpful in connecting them with the outside world, expanding equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading opportunities to share teaching and learning strategies, and to relevant and Goal-4 effective learning outcomes, will require encouraging them to try new approaches in their classrooms and innovative and technological approaches that leverage both with their students. public and private partnerships. For these and other interventions to be most effective, they need While governments and their Ministries of Education over the to embrace human-centred design approaches that provide world must assume primary responsibility for the provision of meaningful opportunities for potential end-users to participate education to all children and youth residing within their borders, and help shape design and planning decisions. As more people the role of technology has the potential to overcome myriad enjoy expanded access to the virtual world, they also need to divides, such as those across low-income v high-income countries, make sure that participants acquire digital literacy skills that rural v urban areas, stable v crisis-affected regions, in school v allow them to protect themselves in this new space so that these out-of-school children and youth, male v female learners, literate v interventions do not risk further subjecting already marginalised illiterate populations, and monolingual v multilingual learners, to populations to new vulnerabilities. name just a few. Information and communication technologies have much to offer, In bridging these divides, the innovations described in this but it is important to remember that they are not a panacea. There report will do more than provide digital literacy skills needed will never be a single, silver-bullet solution for overcoming the to compete in the global marketplace in the 21st century. immense inequalities and inequities that governments, schools, They will also do more than provide economic benefits to the teachers, families and learners confront every day in their efforts participants and the societies where they are living. Through

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