EdTech Academy

mEducation Alliance Signature Activity

The EdTech Academy is the premiere learning and training platform for EdTech policymakers, practitioners, and researchers. It’s a platform for compelling e-learning courses, live events, tools and training materials that showcases various topics through showcase events, promotional channels and professional development opportunities.

The mEducation Alliance EdTech Academy will support the sharing of good practices, lessons learned, and practical case study examples for EdTech project funding, design, research and evaluation, deployment, and replication, principally for developing country contexts via asynchronous and synchronous courses that will be delivered through mEducation Alliance’s Pulse media channel, in which we will feature in-depth expert interviews and case studies, as well as host live events. Illustrative course offerings will include: Digital Literacy 101 (see below), Technology and Ed subject matters(e.g., math, literacy), Technology in Crisis and Conflict Settings, and so much more!

If you would like more information, including how to contribute to the EdTech Academy initiative, please email us at [email protected].

EdTech Academy content will cover a range of topics from: best practices, lessons learned, practical case study examples for edtech design, development, research, evaluation, and implementation for developing country contexts. The content for physical and virtual course delivery will be co-developed among Alliance members and other strategic content partners. 

Our initial series, Digital Literacy 101, will include the following modules:

  • Module 1: Introduction to Digital Literacy
  • Module 2: Digital Literacy for Community Development, Entrepreneurship & Employment
  • Module 3: Pre-Computational Skills
  • Module 4: Web Literacy
  • Module 5: Mobile Literacy
  • Module 6: Misinformation & Disinformation
  • Module 7: Safety & Security
  • Module 8: Coding Skills
  • Module 9: Digital Literacy, Equity and Inclusion

Signature Activities

Afghan Kids Support Hub

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Math Power!

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Literacy League

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Youth Digital Champions

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The Mobiles for Education (mEducation) Alliance is a 501(c)3 non-profit focused on the evidence-driven and sustainable role of technology in education to advance quality educational outcomes. Initially formed in 2010, the mEducation Alliance is a unique, multi-stakeholder convening platform for government and donor policymakers, other investors, researchers, and practitioners to work together, particularly in lower-resource, developing country contexts. For more information about the Alliance, including about our signature activities, visit the organization web page. Read Full Disclosure and Policy Statement Here

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Jax Chaudhry

Jax Chaudhry leads Project Invent, a national nonprofit that empowers youth with future ready mindsets for individual success and global impact, through invention. Originally from the Southside of Chicago, Jax loves working with students, families and partners to ensure every student can attain success as they define it. For more than 10 years, she has worked with elementary schools, high schools, education nonprofits and led regional teams and operations to ensure student success.

Michael Leventhal

Kenneth Y T Lim operates at the intersection of neuroergonomics, the learning scienceMichael Leventhal is co-founder of RobotsMali, a pedagogical and AI4D laboratory and STEM education center in Bamako, Mali. RobotsMali has trained thousands of students from elementary school to high school in computer science, robotics, and artificial intelligence, coached national robotics teams that have won 32 medals in international competitions, and developed technologies using AI and robotics for the social and economic development of Mali. Before becoming an educator in Mali, Michael worked as a technologist in Silicon Valley.s, and cognitive psychology. In 2023, he and his team were identified by UNESCO to share their work on the affordances of Generative AI for meaningful teaching and learning, during UNESCO’s first annual flagship event Digital Learning Week, international forum on the implications of Generative AI for education, in the session on ‘Preparing students and teachers for responsible use of AI’.

Enouce Ndeche

Enouce Ndeche is the founder and Director of Vijana Amani Pamoja ,VAP a community scheme based in Nairobi Kenya that uses the power and the popularity of the game of soccer/football as a catalyst for social, educational and economic empowerment.Enouce holds a degree in sociology from Egerton university and he is also the 2020 individual award recipient “Diversity and Inclusion Eminent Leader Award Enouce is also a certified Sports Philanthropy and Executive, George Washington University and is a 2023 Gratitude Network fellow.

Kenneth Y T Lim

Kenneth Y T Lim operates at the intersection of neuroergonomics, the learning sciences, and cognitive psychology. In 2023, he and his team were identified by UNESCO to share their work on the affordances of Generative AI for meaningful teaching and learning, during UNESCO’s first annual flagship event Digital Learning Week, international forum on the implications of Generative AI for education, in the session on ‘Preparing students and teachers for responsible use of AI’.