Connect to Learn is scaling up girls education around the world - Seite 2

In Sri Lanka, the Connect to Learn program creates a partnership between Ericsson, Mobitel, Open University of Sri Lanka and the Commonwealth of Learning that aims to bring ICT and computer literacy education to teenage girls in farming communities in Sri Lanka, empowering and equipping them with the ICT skills required to pursue tertiary studies and employment opportunities. The ICT solution deployed will give students and teachers access to the most modern educational tools and resources, and the ability to connect to other schools around the world to foster collaborative learning, cross-cultural understanding and global awareness.

Currently, Connect To Learn gives access to quality educational resources enabled by the cloud-based ICT solution deployed in their schools. These students attend secondary schools in Millennium Villages in Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Senegal, Malawi and Rwanda. Connect To Learn is also deployed in schools in Ghana, Cape Verde, Djibouti, India, China, Buhtan, Chile and Brazil. The ICT in education report identifies challenges in providing ICT-based education and, underlining possible solutions, the study offers a universal framework for measuring Interventions in schools.

 

NOTES TO EDITORS

ICT in Education study: http://www.ericsson.com/res/docs/2013/ict-in-education-study-spread.pd ...
Hear from one of the first graduates of the Connect To Learn program in Ghana.
Video with Jeffrey Sachs, Director Earth Institute at Columbia University discusses how ICT will transform education in all parts of the world ICT in Education
The Earth Institute: www.earth.columbia.edu
Millennium Promise: www.millenniumvillages.org/millenniumpromise
Millennium Development Goals: www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/mdgoverview.html

About Connect To Learn

Connect To Learn (CTL) is a global education initiative launched in 2010 by the Earth Institute of Columbia University, Millennium Promise and Ericsson to scale up access to quality secondary education, in particular for girls, by providing scholarships and bringing information and communications technologies (ICT) to schools in remote, resource-poor parts of the world. Impacting nearly 40,000 students worldwide today, CTL is pioneering ICT in rural classrooms and charting a course for scalable solutions, driven by a vision that classrooms everywhere, from cities to the most isolated villages, will be transformed in exciting ways with the expansion of mobile broadband networks. www.connecttolearn.org