Ressource Tunakujenga: A family learning program that empowers caregivers to be the best parents they can be. Tunakujenga (“We Build You Up” in Swahili) is a family learning program that gives caregivers the skills and agency to engage in play-based learning and nurturing activities with their young children from birth to 14 years old.
Ressource World Around You World Around You is an open source, web-based authoring platform that allows for the creation and distribution of multilingual signed stories with written text across the Internet.
Ressource Crossing the Digital Divide: Applying Technology to the Global Refugee Crisis In this report, the authors analyze technology uses, needs, and gaps, as well as opportunities for better using technology to help displaced people and improving the operations of responding agencies. The authors also examine inherent ethical, security, and privacy considerations; explore barriers to the successful deployment of technology; and outline some tools for building a more systematic approach to such deployment.
Ressource An overview of ICT for education of refugees and IDPs This study includes a number of case studies selected to present a diversity of different types of technology projects operating to address education needs in IDP and refugee camps. This rapid review drew largely on synthesis studies, evaluative papers and some grey literature.
Ressource Guidelines for Designing Inclusive Digital Solutions and Developing Digital Skills This publication puts forward guidelines to help today’s technology pioneers build more inclusive digital solutions. They show private sector companies, NGOs, international organizations and governments what factors to consider, questions to ask and processes to follow when developing solutions for people with limited literacy skills and low digital skills (referred to as ‘low-skilled users’ in the context of this publication).
Ressource Feed the Monster: Impact and technical evaluation In this design, we compared growth in literacy outcomes for two groups of children (each using one of the apps) to a group of children in matched environments who did not have access to the apps. All children in the study had little or no schooling and lived in the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan. This design relies on comparing two groups that experience the same historical trends and events over time.
Ressource Antura and the Letters: Impact and technical evaluation In this design, we compared growth in literacy outcomes for two groups of children, each using one of the games, to a group of children in matched environments who did not have access to the games. All children in the study had little or no schooling and lived in the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan.
Ressource Assessing the impact of literacy learning games for Syrian refugee children: An executive overview of Antura and the Letters and Feed the Monster impact evaluations This report provides an executive overview of the impact evaluations of two winning literacy apps, Antura and the Letters and Feed the Monster, in the EduApp4Syria competition.
Ressource Challenges of Adopting Open Educational Resources (OER) in Kenyan Secondary Schools: The Case of Open Resources for English Language Teaching (ORELT) This paper reports the findings of a study in which Open Resources for English Language Teaching, were piloted in a sample of fifty Kenyan secondary schools. The study reported that poor infrastructure, negative attitudes, lack of ICT competencies, and other skill gaps among teachers, as well as lack of administrative support, are some of the challenges experienced in the adoption and use of OERs in Kenyan schools. The findings of the present study will provide useful insights to developers of OERs and Kenyan education stakeholders in devising strategies to optimise utilisation of OERs in the Kenyan school system.
Ressource Parenting in displacement: Adapting Vroom for displaced Syrian families This case study provides a look at the process of adapting and piloting Vroom for Syrian refugee parents and families. Vroom empowers parents and caregivers of young children to turn everyday moments into brain-building moments.