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Digitization of the Primary School Curriculum: An OER initiative in a

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 Sankoré - Mauritius

Digitization of the Primary School

Curriculum
An OER Initiative in a Small Island Developing State

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Digitization of School Curriculum
 300 schools, 5000
teachers, 140 000 pupils
 Six core subjects – 502
interactive resources
 Creative Commons License
 Learning Factory – 12
staffs

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Empowering the Education Sector
 Face-to-face training
sessions
 192 sessions for 2000 +
stakeholders [2011 till
now]
 Audience inducted into
hardware, software and
pedagogical issues

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Empowering the Education Sector
 OER publication
 Teaching with Technology
 Online repository of
resources

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 Empowering the Education Sector

 School visits [153 since

August 2011]
 Facebook page
 Support and
troubleshooting by phone

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Teacher perceptions
Impact of the Digital The impact of Digital
Classroom on Teaching Classroom on Student's
Practice Performance

13%

6% 4%
3%

Positive Positive
No effect No effect
Negative Negative
90%
No data No data

84%

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Challenges for SIDS
 Human resources
 Financial resources
 Connectivity
 Changing mindsets
 Little awareness of OER/OEP

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