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Leading Perspectives on the State of Digital Courseware in Low-Resource Countries

Published: March 2025

Introduction: This report offers valuable insights and actionable information from key informants to support, scale, and sustain digital courseware initiatives aimed at improving basic literacy, numeracy, and broader learning outcomes in low-resource settings. 

Between September and November 2024, mEducation Alliance staff and consultants conducted key informant interviews (KIIs) with 41 ministry officials, global experts, donors, and implementers, alongside focus groups of representatives from ministries in eight countries.

These insights reflect the collective efforts of leading organizations and country ministries dedicated to advancing this critical work. The mEducation Alliance and the Spix Foundation reaffirm their commitment to supporting these stakeholders to achieve their shared goals, fostering meaningful progress in digital education.

Recommended citation: mEducation Alliance. 2025. Leading Perspectives on the State of Digital Courseware in Low-Resource Countries.

Contact: medalliance@meducationalliance.org

Credit: Cover photo, taken early in 2025, provided courtesy of CRECCOM (https://www.creccommw.org/)

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Leading Perspectives on the State of Digital Courseware in Low-Resource Countries

2024 Annual mEducation Alliance Member Landscape Report

Published: March 2025

Introduction: This report highlights the work of mEducation Alliance Members in advancing STEM and EdTech initiatives across lower-resource contexts. It also shares aspirations and strategic priorities for 2025.

Number of contributing members – 28

Focus areas:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Crisis and Conflict
  • Disability
  • Foundational Learning
  • Girls’ Education
  • Learner Centric Learning
  • Open Educational Resources
  • Policies and Networks
  • Teacher Training

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2024 mEA Member Landscape Report

2024 mEA Foundational Literacy and Numeracy CoPs Landscape Report

Published: May 2025

Introduction: This report highlights the work of our Literacy League and Math Power! Communities of Practice in advancing Foundational Literacy and Numeracy initiatives across lower-resource contexts. It also shares aspirations and strategic priorities for 2025.

Number of contributing members – 20

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2024 mEA FLN CoPs Landscape Report

Solving the Sustainability Challenges of Educational Volunteerism at Scale

Published: March 2025

Introduction: To tackle the persistent challenge of not being able to sustain or successfully scale educational volunteer initiatives (such as volunteer facilitated reading clubs, math clubs, caregiver workshops, catch-up clubs, etc), Save the Children co-founded the Educational Volunteerism Community of Practice together with the mEducation Alliance.

The working group of the Edu Vol CoP together with consultant Adrienne Barnes Story, in this white paper, describes several common challenges in sustaining educational volunteerism at scale and proposes using a layered model of volunteerism to mitigate these challenges. 

Through collaborating with communities to simplify volunteer expectations and tasks according to local priorities and through partnering with already sustaining institutions/organizations with volunteer programs (Rotary Club, Peace Corps, Corps Africa, government-run national youth service programs, FBO run volunteer programs, etc.), education programs can provide more sustainable approaches at scale for community-based volunteers’ recruitment, capacity strengthening, incentivization and/or management.

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Solving the Sustainability Challenges of Educational Volunteerism at Scale

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’.