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Schoolinka

Online Learning Platform for Teachers' Continous Professional Development

Schoolinka.com is an Edtech company that is creating an ecosystem of highly skilled teaching workforce for schools in Africa. With a learning model that is powered by educators with experience and expertise, we design exciting professional development programs for teachers and deliver them through an online learning platform, instructor-led online classes, and in-person workshops.

Overview

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Web presence

2019

Established

2K

Children

3

Countries
Target group
Teachers
Updated
January 2021

About the innovation

Why did you create this innovation?

According to a UNESCO Statistics report of 2019, it was stated that 1 out of 3 teachers in Africa lack training. It is an agreed fact that quality education begins with qualified teachers who deliver good lessons so that students can learn. However, the percentage of trained teachers has been steadily falling from 85% to 64% at the primary level and from 79% to 50% at the secondary level in 2017.

What does your innovation look like in practice?

Schoolinka.com is the one-stop-shop for teachers' continuous professional development. With a learning model that is powered by a faculty of educators with experience and expertise, we are able to design quality learning programs for teachers. Our faculty members are teacher training consultants and teacher training colleges who design training programs and host them on our platform for thousands of teachers across Africa. The training programs are either delivered through our online learning platform as massive open online courses or through instructor-led online classes and in-person training events.

We create both B2B and B2C partnerships with as many training program creators with proven expertise as possible, so that we can constantly create more engaging professional development content for teachers. Our training partners/faculty use our platform to reach many teachers at no cost and receive a percentage of earnings on the training programs they host on Schoolinka.com.

How has it been spreading?

We have worked with over 2,000 teachers in our in-person workshops, instructor-led online classes and through our online learning platform. These teachers have learned modules like effective classroom management, differentiation in learning, assessment for learning, multiple intelligence, and even how to use technology to power learning in their classrooms, amongst many others.

Currently, we have a faculty of over 50 course creators who are educators with quality experience and expertise and they design the learning programs that we offer to teachers via our channels.

Our partnership with schools and governments is helping us reach out to many more teachers as possible and we are looking forward to gaining entry into other African countries.

If I want to try it, what should I do?

To begin learning at Schoolinka, all you need to do is to visit schoolinka.com and sign up as a user and then continue to access our online courses or sign up for an instructor-led online class of your interest.

We are making it easy for teachers to access quality continuous professional development through their smartphones and the internet.

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