MTN Uganda in partnership with the Ministry of Training and Sports activities and Continuum Monetary Group have launched an E studying platform known as ULEARN, a self-paced e-learning platform for lecturers and trainer educators countrywide, that may be accessed at zero information prices by way of the MTN community.
Launched by the state minister for Greater Training, Dr John C. Muyingo, ULEARN seeks to digitalize entry to Instructor Training in order to spice up entry to high quality training.
The platform presents a variety of academic sources, together with interactive classes, quizzes, and movies to help the training system in delivering distant and blended studying. It additionally features a vary of options to facilitate collaboration and communication, equivalent to dialogue boards and chat performance.
The choice to zero charge the platform now implies that the customers shall onwards be capable of entry ULEARN and all its sources with out incurring any information costs so long as they’re utilizing the MTN community for web connection.
MTN Basis’s Senior Supervisor, Bryan Mbassa stated through the system demo and coaching on the Nationwide Innovation Hub on the Uganda Institute of Info and Communication Expertise that lecturers play a vital function within the preparation of learners for his or her work life however most frequently require steady functionality improvement in order to organize learners for the ever-evolving work ecosystem.
He stated the excessive price of the web has additionally hindered lecturers fascinated about sharpening their abilities and information from buying the much-needed training.
“We’re subsequently very proud as MTN Uganda to accomplice with the Ministry of Training and Sports activities and Continuum Monetary Group to allow our lecturers to get the related information and abilities required to be handed on to the learners,” he stated.
He added: “Our aspiration as MTN Uganda is to ship the advantages of a contemporary related world to all of the inhabitants and sectors throughout Uganda. We consider in creating main digital options for Africa’s progress and accelerating the achievement of this imaginative and prescient wants strategic partnerships just like the one we’re having now.”
Dr. John Chrysostom Muyingo, the State Minister for Greater Training (Centre Entrance) and MTN Basis Senior Supervisor, Bryan Mbassa (4L) and different officers from the MOES and the Uganda Institute of Info and Communications Expertise launches the ULEARN platform on 25 January 2023.
In his remarks through the occasion, Dr John C. Muyingo, the State Minister for Greater Training thanked MTN Uganda for accepting to zero charge the educational platform.
To date, greater than 1200 lecturers and trainer educators from all around the nation have been on-boarded and educated to check and obtain the Certificates in Instructor Training Proficiency (CTEP), a course below Instructor Training Coaching & Growth Division that’s designed to boost their profession talent set to be aggressive and work extra effectively in an evolving world, via the platform.
Over time, MTN Uganda has zero-rated entry to studying platforms to allow learners to entry training. Final yr, MTN Uganda partnered with Enabel and the Ministry of Training and Sports activities to allow trainer trainees subscribed to the MTN community to entry the educational portal freed from cost.
The telecom firm in 2020 zero-rated studying establishments through the coronavirus pandemic, permitting free entry to 17 studying websites in partnership with Nationwide Curriculum Growth Centre to make sure college students research from house whereas additionally enabling mother and father to home-school their youngsters.