MTN Uganda in partnership with the Ministry of Training and Sports activities and Continuum Monetary Group have launched an E studying platform referred to as ULEARN, a self-paced e-learning platform for lecturers and instructor educators countrywide, that may be accessed at zero knowledge prices by way of the MTN community.
Launched by the state minister for Larger Training, Dr John C. Muyingo, ULEARN seeks to digitalize entry to Instructor Training in order to spice up entry to high quality schooling.
The platform presents a variety of instructional sources, together with interactive classes, quizzes, and movies to help the schooling system in delivering distant and blended studying. It additionally features a vary of options to facilitate collaboration and communication, reminiscent of dialogue boards and chat performance.
The choice to zero price the platform now implies that the customers shall onwards have the ability to entry ULEARN and all its sources with out incurring any knowledge fees so long as they’re utilizing the MTN community for web connection.
MTN Basis’s Senior Supervisor, Bryan Mbassa mentioned throughout the system demo and coaching on the Nationwide Innovation Hub on the Uganda Institute of Data and Communication Expertise that lecturers play a important function within the preparation of learners for his or her work life however most frequently require steady functionality improvement in order to arrange learners for the ever-evolving work ecosystem.
He mentioned the excessive value of the web has additionally hindered lecturers thinking about sharpening their expertise and data from buying the much-needed schooling.
“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 data and expertise required to be handed on to the learners,” he mentioned.
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.”
In his remarks throughout the occasion, Dr John C. Muyingo, the State Minister for Larger Training thanked MTN Uganda for accepting to zero price the training platform.
To date, greater than 1200 lecturers and instructor educators from all around the nation have been on-boarded and skilled to review 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, by way of the platform.
Over time, MTN Uganda has zero-rated entry to studying platforms to allow learners to entry schooling. Final yr, MTN Uganda partnered with Enabel and the Ministry of Training and Sports activities to allow instructor trainees subscribed to the MTN community to entry the training portal freed from cost.
The telecom firm in 2020 zero-rated studying establishments throughout the coronavirus pandemic, permitting free entry to 17 studying websites in partnership with Nationwide Curriculum Growth Centre to make sure college students research from dwelling whereas additionally enabling mother and father to home-school their youngsters.
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