Improving Learning outcomes through ICT Support Strategies - Tanzania

Abstract
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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.
The Shule Direct cloud based repository stores all the resources, with an advanced data management
system 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.
This 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.
Though 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.
The 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.
Shule 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.

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Internet [int]

摘要
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教育技术通过提供可按个人节奏在任何时间、任何地点学习的优质教育内容，成为弥合教育资源差距的有效且高效的解决方案。在过去三年中，Shule Direct 已有超过一百万用户访问本地中学课程，与虚拟教师及其他学习者互动，并通过数千次测验来检验他们的理解能力。
Shule Direct 的云存储库存储了所有资源，配备先进的数据管理系统和应用程序编程接口（API），这使得移动应用程序、Shule Direct 网络门户（在线和离线）以及MAKINI SMS服务能够根据学生和教师的需求提取适当的内容，并通过他们所能访问的任何技术将其交付给他们。
我们对数字内容存储库的构建和结构化所进行的初步努力，使我们能够将其用于当前平台，并未来应用于各种不同的平台和应用，而无需重新创建我们的内容。
尽管亲自进行实验的经验无法替代，但我们可以通过为学生提供教师进行实验的详细视频，并辅以动画和计算机图形的增强，从而解释背后的科学概念，来创建一项宝贵的资源。
利用技术可能在很大程度上解决非洲教育面临的一些紧迫挑战，其成本和时间将远远低于我们采用传统的‘砖和水泥’方法解决这些挑战所需的成本和时间。
Shule Direct 学习平台开发和提供满足市场需求并填补现有空白的本地内容。我们与用户和生态系统中的利益相关者协商开发内容，这使得我们始终保持需求，并在吸引新用户的同时保留现有用户。
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互联网 [int]