Digital Sexual Reproductive Health Education.

Mwabu’s product team has created a few sample modules and developed a draft course outline for a new interactive digital course to support dissemination of crucial information about sexual reproductive health (SRH) to adolescents across Zambia and beyond. 

             

We have taken these steps as we are aware of the urgency and need for relevant, sensitive and appropriate education content relating to this topic. We also know that individual organisations working in this area seldom have the funds required for investment in a full digital course so, as part of this initiative, we are exploring alternative funding models to enable contributions to development from several sources.  

Mwabu is leading the way by making our product team available at cost for this important content creation. Funding to cover development costs and partnerships with subject matter experts will allow Mwabu to make much-needed SRH content available across Zambia through various online and offline platforms. We believe e-learning content aimed at adolescents and young adults has the potential to be distributed cost-efficiently and engage the target audience effectively.  

At this early stage of development, we are excited to explore with interested partners what such a product and its funding model could include. Our current thinking is structuring the content through topic-based modules to allow organisations to mix and match to fit their programmes, based on the Zambian Ministry of Education’s Comprehensive Sexual Education Framework.

Funding options are to be agreed with those partners who wish to participate from inception, as a group. Participating organisations will also have the option of guiding content through active engagement of their subject matter experts in the content creation process.  

For more information, or to be involved in this project, please contact [email protected] 

 

Survey Indicates Teachers Want Tech!

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In a recent pilot of our survey tool, focussed on foundational learning, we collected data on the availability of teaching and learning resources, teachers’ training and support needs, availability of technology (smartphones, tablets, computers) as well teachers’ beliefs and willingness relating to technology use in the classroom.   Our preliminary findings show that despite recent large-scale interventions, teaching and learning resources remain limited, for example there is one reading book per 3-5 learners in 46% of classrooms. This, together with learner absenteeism are the most prevalent challenges faced by teachers. The most requested forms of support are training on literacy teaching methods and provision of numeracy materials. 

Time + Tide Report on Fantastic Learner Progress.

16 October 2024

Mwabu congratulates the Time + Tide Foundation Girls Club for the fantastic improvements they have achieved in their Girls Club literacy programme in Liuwa Plain. After one year of using the Mwabu Learn app as part of an after-school programme aimed at improving low literacy levels of girls, the 2023 cohort scored a collective average of 53% on their literacy assessments – a significant increase from the baseline at 27%.

Topic Assessments Now Available on Mwabu Learn!

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Mwabu recently added topic assessments to English Language, Mathematics and Science for grades 4 to 7. When learner(s) have finished working through a topic, they can now test their knowledge in the assessment section for each of the subjects and grades.   These assessments are short quizzes, aligned to the curriculum objectives. The questions are randomly drawn from a question bank, so your learner(s) will get a different set of questions each time they try the quiz.