Islamabad – 22nd December 2011*: 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 joining hands, where Nokia is
providing its mobile phones and its 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 in order to support 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.
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 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"
Speaking about the launch of NED program, Ulrike Vott Nokia Sustainability
Manager for Middle East* *said, "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."
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 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.
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 joining hands, where Nokia is
providing its mobile phones and its 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 in order to support 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.
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 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"
Speaking about the launch of NED program, Ulrike Vott Nokia Sustainability
Manager for Middle East* *said, "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."
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 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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