ELthree Learning and Development

Whether it's supporting the development of Early Childhood Development assement content, facilitating digital skills/blended learning sessions for teachers or working with corporate trainers to create engaging eLearning courses, we are continually in awe of the efforts and invaluable input of teachers towards development.

Commemorating International Women's Day 2025. Working on Open Education Resources in line with the Zambian curriculum with the amazing teachers of Chazanga Combined School in Lusaka.

The teachers highlighted power issues, digital skills and access to more devices as some challenges to blended learning. Empowering our teachers is one major way to Empowerment, Rights, Equality for All Women and Girls.

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We excitedly ended January 2024 with a capacity building and content mapping session with teachers in Nkayi, rural Zimbabwe. A select number of teachers in Nkayi and Binga districts worked on their digitals skills and to link/map the Zimbabwe Secondary School Curriculum to Open Education Resources (OER4Schools) on Learning Equality's Kolibri Studio.

The teachers will then support other teachers, in a cascade model, through weekly and bi-weekly teacher group meetings, a cardinal part of Continuous Teacher Professional Development.

The teacher will use the content offline in the their rural schools for students to have access to a broad range of teaching and learning material.

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Our Head of Learning Lumbiwe Lulu Limbikani will speaking on DigitALL resources, Innovation & Technology, for Gender Equality this International Women's Day.

Wishing you a wonderful festive season. Thank you for all your support. A Happy New Year to you all!

Proud to be part of the team that presented the report on the OER4School pilot project (since 2017). We had an engaging discussion with IT Principle Director's office at the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education in Zimbabwe. We shared lessons and recommendations for future partnerships, expansion and integration. Lumbiwe Lulu Limbikani

We are still in Zimbabwe; supporting Teacher Professional Development and the use of OERs. We in Nkayi, Matebele North. It's been over 4 years since the OER4School Programme was first introduced here.

During our time, we will work with the teachers and learn about successes, the need for refresher courses, (we are always learning!) and generally find out what is working and where we can all do better to support access to quality education.

Kudos to Kenya.

As reform expert Michael Barber says, ‘the quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of its teacher”.
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Binga, Matebele North, Zimbabwe: Teachers during their Teacher Group meeting (TGM) exploring students tablets and discussing how they are going to introduce digital resources in the classroom.

After the initial in-person training session, teachers take the lead in their own professional development and have weekly/bi-weekly TGMs. During the TGMs, teachers work through the OER4Schools modules and looks at how to manage student behaviour, differentiation, managing limited resources and any challenges they might encounter whilst integrating ICT in their classrooms.

The teachers have access to in-person and remote mentoring and support. They create and are part of communities of practice as they continue to work on their methodologies

Education is a community activity. Its cannot be led in silo.
One of our first stops is a courtesy call to the DSI at the MoPSE Binga District Offices. We had a chat about the work are undertaking as part of the OER4Schools programme with the DSI Mr Masungo, who also introduced us to the DC and CIO at Binga police.

We are in Zimbabwe for the next few weeks supporting the project on Teacher development to foster participatory learning, effective use of open educational resources (OER) and information and communication technologies (ICT).

eLthree is leading the training sessions on how to use the OER4School modules for teacher professional development and the integration of ICT/Digital resources for everyday teaching and learning.