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EdTech in Rwanda: A Rapid Scan

SDGs Impacted

EdTech Hub country scans explore factors that enable and hinder the use of technology in education. These factors include the policy or vision for EdTech, institutional capacity, private-sector partnerships, and the digital infrastructure. This report is based primarily on desk research, with quality assurance provided by a country expert. This document highlights Rwanda’s ICT in Education policy that encourages educators across all levels of education to use ICTs in teaching and learning and advocates using open education resources. It also provides support to student-centred pedagogy and collaborative learning and the establishment of a research network linking Rwandan scientists and researchers to regional and international research networks.

Impact / Outcome
Among some of the initiatives of the ICT policy, we can highlight the One Laptop Per Children (OLPC) project that aims at the enhancement of education through the introduction of technology in primary schools. It is funded and implemented by the government through MINEDUC. The OLPC programme additionally conducted community awareness campaigns about the role of XO laptops in learning, organised supplemental student programmes, and trained teachers on how to use the XO laptops in their classrooms. 275,407 laptops in 1523 schools were deployed in 2018.
Funding sources
Public
Key Metrics
Promote the use of ICT in formal and non-formal education
Locations
Africa, Africa, Rwanda
Sector
Education
Intervention lever
Direct government
Operating model
Fully public
Target populations
Children, Youth
Year published
30 June 2020

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