{"doc_desc":{"title":"Shule Direct","idno":"ShuleDirect011","producers":[{"name":"Shule Direct","abbreviation":"","affiliation":"","role":"Data Producer"},{"name":"African Population and Health Research Center","abbreviation":"APHRC","affiliation":"","role":"Production of the DDI"}],"prod_date":"2024-01-02","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0, with anonymized datasets"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"ShuleDirect011","title":"Improving Learning outcomes through ICT Support Strategies"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Shule Direct","affiliation":""}],"production_statement":{"copyright":"Copyright \u00a9 Shule Direct, 2024","funding_agencies":[{"name":"wellspring philanthropic fund","abbreviation":"WPF","role":"Funder"}]},"version_statement":{"version_date":"2024-01-02"},"study_info":{"abstract":"Educational technology offers an effective and efficient solution to bridge the educational resources divide by providing access to qualified educational content, available to learn at an individual pace, anytime and anywhere. In the last three years, Shule Direct has had more than 1 million users accessing the local Secondary School curriculum, engaging with a virtual teacher and other learners and testing their comprehension via thousands of quizzes.\nThe Shule Direct cloud based repository stores all the resources, with an advanced data management\nsystem and Application Programming Interface (API), which allow mobile applications, the Shule Direct web portal (online and offline) and MAKINI SMS services to pull the right content for students and teachers and deliver it to them through whatever technology they can access. \nThis initial early effort in content build and structuring of our digital content repository has enabled us to use it for current platforms and into the future for variety of different platforms and applications without recreating our content.\nThough nothing can replace the experience of performing an experiment oneself, we can create a valuable resource by providing students with detailed videos of teachers performing experiments, with added enhancement through animations and computer graphics that can explain the underlying scientific concepts.\nThe use of technology may solve some of the pertinent challenges facing education in Africa at a fraction of the cost and time it will take should we solve these challenges using the traditional 'brick and mortar' approach.\nShule Direct learning platforms develop and provide local content that is addressing market needs and filling an existing gap. We develop content in consultation with the users and the stakeholders involved in the ecosystem. This enables us to always be in demand and retaining users as much as gathering new ones.","coll_dates":[{"start":"2016-03-07","end":"2021-11-30","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"TANZANIA","abbreviation":"TZ"}]},"method":{"data_collection":{"coll_mode":["Internet [int]"]}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"contact":[{"name":"Shule Direct","affiliation":"","email":"datarequest@aphrc.org","uri":"https:\/\/relimicrodata.org\/"}],"disclaimer":"The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses."}}}}