Just a few years in the past, the Qatar Ministry of Schooling and Greater Schooling (MOEHE) adopted an initiative, Qeducation, to develop instructional curricula with a selected concentrate on competency-based studying designed to satisfy the job market wants and better schooling necessities. The MOEHE selected CYPHER as one of the best trendy studying platform to assist them ahead the Qeducation initiative.
In March 2023, one yr after the profitable implementation of the CYPHER platform for the entire public colleges within the state of Qatar, CYPHER, in collaboration with the Qatar Ministry of Schooling and Greater Schooling (MOEHE), led a well-attended workshop: Offering college students, lecturers and fogeys with digital know-how for studying for the non-public colleges of Qatar to debate one of the best studying options for advancing schooling. The March workshop was held to:
- Present an replace on the initiative of launching the Qatar Schooling System and permit the MOEHE to share their expertise
- Talk about compelling Qatar Schooling platform options and traits
- Talk about the influence of the system on the academic journey of scholars, lecturers and fogeys
- Prolong the providing to the non-public colleges of Qatar and create a Founding Members group
Qatar schooling system initiative replace
Earlier than CYPHER, the Ministry relied on a conventional LMS system and a separate, stand alone communications platform. With restricted digital capabilities and with out cell gadget assist, lecturers, college students, and fogeys turned pissed off with the shortcoming to trace progress or talk with one another. Directors and lecturers discovered it more and more tough to handle the academic digital content material, combine with different ministry programs, create experiences, or scale out to assist the variety of college students who wanted to entry the system.
Compelled by an pressing want for a complete studying administration to assist them handle the academic course of, the Ministry of Schooling and Greater Schooling formally launched the e-learning administration system for public colleges within the State of Qatar, “Qatar Schooling” in January 2022. The aims have been as follows:
- Meet the wants of the academic course of within the State of Qatar together with its future aspirations
- Maintain tempo with world developments in trendy e-learning programs
- Present all of the options that educators have to create and ship the best stage of instructional content material on-line.
- Present instructional providers to each college students and fogeys
To create the absolute best studying expertise for his or her college students, the Ministry of Schooling and Greater Schooling partnered with CYPHER to offer Qeducation.
Positively impacting the academic journey of scholars, lecturers, and fogeys
In 2022, when Qeducation was carried out, Qatar’s schooling system was enriched with many new courses, movies, and content material for a extra pleasant studying expertise. Adoption charge within the first month of lecturers and college students from grade 3 to grade 12 registered on the system was 99% and 91% respectively. And engagement of scholars, lecturers, and fogeys skyrocketed.
Schooling
Lecturers reported that it was straightforward to create enjoyable and motivating classes for college students, and that the brand new studying platform provided a variety of studying types together with face-to-face schooling, self studying, blended studying, and micro-learning. Lecturers and directors instantly realized the implications of constructing automated studying paths, in addition to having the ability to extra precisely consider pupil progress out there with analytics and reporting instruments.
Designed to be easy and simple for college students, the trendy and intuitive consumer interface was well-received. With a cell software and gadget assist, and instruments to extend pupil motivation and participation, pupil engagement elevated, and college students participated extra with the flexibility to work together with the teachings at any time and place and on any gadget they selected for studying.
Gamification
Gamification was a preferred subject of the dialogue. There gave the impression to be unanimous settlement that some of the participating and impactful options of Qeducation is the site-wide gamification. Taking a proactive and clever studying strategy, lecturers are capable of shortly make programs participating, aggressive, and enjoyable by gaming them. Lecturers have additionally shortly found how straightforward it’s to construct automation-based video games the place college students can earn factors and badges as rewards for finishing objectives throughout course actions. And the scholars are responding and attempting to place their title atop the leaderboard. Staff video games with Qeducation have been additionally reported to be extremely efficient in motivating college students to take part in group studying actions.
Cooperation and collaboration
One of the vital necessary options of Qeducation has been the flexibility to attach by means of neighborhood. Connection and neighborhood are essential for efficient digital studying, which is why communication was constructed into the platform. By prioritizing the benefit of communication between lecturers, college students, and fogeys, in addition to offering a secure technique of collaboration and sharing, Qeducation creates a way of belonging and assist that’s important for studying success. College students and lecturers additionally appreciated the number of interactive instruments reminiscent of chat rooms, boards, teams, blogs, and extra.
Evaluation
The correct evaluation of competency is essential in competency-based studying because it ensures that college students have actually mastered the required expertise and information. Qeducation permits college students to create personalised studying paths and focused interventions to assist college students in areas the place they could be struggling. These assessments are resulting in a simpler and environment friendly on-line studying expertise for college students bettering total studying outcomes:
- A number of query patterns as much as 14 patterns
- Mathematical and scientific equations
- Evaluation utilizing Rubrics verbal ranking scale
- Assessments linked to studying outcomes so pupil proficiency will be analyzed
- Dynamic in contemplating particular person variations and pupil completion procedures for assessments
- Shield assessments with a password and shut the browser
- Detailed grade historical past and evaluation of scholars efficiency
Elevated Motivation and Participation
Elevated motivation and participation means college students are actively engaged and invested of their coursework. Each lecturers and college students are empowered by the flexibility to hyperlink and align classes and assessments to studying outcomes. Elements resulting in a extra constructive and productive studying expertise included:
- Motivating college students through the use of gamification and integrating it with studying
- Awarding factors and badges, and sustaining leaderboards, creating printable motivational certificates
- Awarding certificates upon completion after all or studying paths
- With the ability to extra granularly analyze how college students achieved studying outcomes
Evaluation and Reporting
With out evaluation and reporting, it’s tough to glean precious insights into the efficiency of scholars and the effectiveness of their studying sources. Qeducation permits lecturers and directors to investigate information on pupil habits, efficiency, and progress, establish areas the place college students are struggling and alter the curriculum accordingly. Reporting permits them to advertise transparency and accountability, and guarantee all of the stakeholders are conscious of progress by means of:
- Centralized experiences that show fast data
- Customized generated experiences
- Analytics that measure pupil progress
Libraries of Digital Assets
Qeducation offers lecturers and college students with three forms of supply libraries and digital content material which are wealthy with high quality content material, straightforward to make use of, and accessible to all events within the instructional course of. Lecturers and college students discovered the useful resource libraries intuitive and accessible to all events within the schooling course of.
Qeducation prolonged to the non-public colleges in Qatar
Throughout the workshop, and in collaboration with the MOEHE, CYPHER prolonged the Qeducation providing to the non-public colleges in attendance, and plenty of of these colleges instantly joined. Subsequently, a bunch of recent founding members was shaped. Within the second a part of this weblog collection, we’ll announce and welcome these new members. In a 3rd, ultimate weblog publish we’ll speak about latest recognition that MOEHE has obtained for instructional excellence and innovation.
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