Daily Times

Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a private organisation for implementation of a project Learn Smart Classroom in the 80 schools of Islamabad working under Federal Directorate of Education (FDE).

The MoU signing ceremony was attended by Minister of Federal Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mahmood, FDE Director General Dr Ikram Ali Malik and CEO of the private organisation Knowledge Platform Talha Munir Khan. According to the details, under this exciting project, a pilot of 80 blended learning classrooms will be implemented in federal government middle schools in Islamabad. Knowledge Platform, Pakistan’s leading education technology company, has won the Federal Government’s first public sector blended learning project after a competitive bidding process.

Recently, the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training and the FDE launched a solicitation for pilot blended learning projects in primary (1-5), middle (6-8), and secondary (9-10) grades.

Knowledge Platform’s blended learning solution Learn Smart Classroom has been selected for the middle grades after a competitive bidding process.

The innovative blended learning platform will provide robust holistic digital teaching, learning, and assessment opportunities for selected FDE schools in Pakistan.

As part of this project, the organisation will over a three-year provide 80 classrooms with the required blended learning infrastructure, an offline Learning Management System that works without the Internet in the classroom, an Artificial Intelligence enabled cloud-based Learning Management System synchronized with the offline platform, digital content for grades 6-8 Mathematics, Science and English comprising of animated videos, games, activities and digital assessments, teacher training for teachers in the selected schools and in-school support and in-depth analytics and reports for school heads, teachers and teachers.

Jazz Smart Schools was the first large-scale implementation of blended learning in public schools in Pakistan. A collaboration between Jazz (Program Sponsor), Knowledge Platform (Program Manager), and the Federal Directorate of Education (Implementation Partner), Jazz Smart Schools was implemented in 75 public girl schools in Islamabad from January 2018 to January 2020. The initiative has served over 38,000 girl students and 1,000 teachers and principals.

In October 2020, the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) evaluated the program and received feedback from 51 principals, 143 teachers, and 533 students. 95% of the surveyed school head principals, teachers and students found that the program helped in improving student learning outcomes, improving quality of teaching, and transforming school culture using blended learning. In a separate study of 15 participating schools, aggregated board results improved by 10% relative to the average of the past three years.