Jordan Education Initiative

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Jordan Education Initiative
a public-private partnership model for effective
and advanced learning deployment
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Supporting a National Agenda of Reform

• The JEI runs parallel to and shares dependencies
  with two existing national programs in Jordan
• Jordans Education Reform for the Knowledge
  Economy (ERfKE) program, the largest ever
  education reform program supported and funded by
  the World Bank. The JEI is providing ERfKE with a
  rapid prototype model for discovering best
  practices and lessons learned by fast-tracking
  some aspects of the education reform
• The National Broadband Learning and Research
  Network is a nationwide high-speed broadband
  network connecting all of Jordans public
  schools, universities, community colleges, and
  community access centers set to reach 1.5 million
  learners by 2006

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An Act of Discovery with Global Significance

• Program Objectives
• Improve the development and delivery of education
  to Jordans citizens through public-private
  partnership
• Unleash the innovation of teachers and students
  through the effective use of ICT
• Build the capacity of the local information
  technology industry
• Leverage environment of national government
  commitment and corporate citizenship to build a
  model of reform.

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Summary of Outputs Achieved
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Key Results
Objective 1 Improve the development and delivery
of education to Jordans citizens through
public-private partnership

• Developing the on-line curriculum according to
  international standards with partnership with
  global partners
• Aiming to reach a strategy for the purpose of
  learning to learning by introducing the blended
  /enrichment learning approach using the
  e-curricula
• Enhancing the performance of the students to
  reach the international standards (TIMSS, PISA)
• Developed a baseline data collection to be
  integrated in the monitoring and evaluation
  framework to measure the impact on the learning
  experience developed.. Moving from quantitative
  approach to qualitative assessment

Objective 2 Unleash the innovation of teachers
and students through the effective use of ICT

• Enhance Critical thinking skills for teachers and
  students by introducing online curriculum and
  different technology models
• Increased Students and teachers exposure to ICT
  tools in education (Ain Jalout School)
• Introducing the different technology models
• Launched the Student Technology Innovation Center
  (STIC) with global partners, this center will
  incorporate the new initiatives and ideas the
  teachers and students have to be introduced later
  to the learning process

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Summary of Outputs Achieved
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Key Results
Objective 3 Build the capacity of the local
information technology industry

• US25million of investments and projects to date
• Five companies were directly benefited
• New Technology models were introduced to the
  country
• development of the information communications
  technology (ICT) sector as a key source of
  economic growth (IT companies excluding the
  country's three telecos employ around 5,000
  people, generated 130 million in revenues and
  38 million in exports, and attracted 60 million
  in foreign investments last year)

Objective 4 Leverage environment of national
government commitment and corporate citizenship
to build a model of reform

• Kick-off of World Economic Forum
  sponsored-initiatives in 3 countries
• Discussions with gt12 countries in region on
  expansion of model Over 46 global and local
  partners, from public and private sectors,
  actively engaged
• Local companies are entering the international
  markets for the e-curriculum that has been
  developed

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The objectives were translated into 3 major tracks
Track 1 Discovery Schools - In-classroom
Technology - E-Curricula Development -
Training
Track 2 Life Long Learning Track 3 ICT
Industry Development
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RESULTS OF OUR WORK
Progress
Sharing Guidelines Standards for
e-Curricula document with other countries
Track 1a e-Curricula

• e- Math is deployed in 100 DS
• 5 e-Curricula will be in schools in February 2006

• Out of 2492 Teacher
• 1233 certified, 889 in progress ICDL, 1224
  Intel/WL
• 622 SST

Track 1bTraining
Track 1c In-Classroom Technology

• 100 schools have network infrastructure
• 227 Computer labs
• 380 Laptops and 380 Projectors

• Discovery School tracks helped local ICT firms
  develop significant new capacities

Track 2 Lifelong Learning

• Taskforce has been formed with partners from
  different sectors

• Over 46 Global and Local Partners from public and
  private sectors are actively engaged

Track 3ICT Industry Development
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Lessons Learned

• Roles, Responsibilities and levels of
  accountability in relation to government
  department need to be early established
• Need of regular strong communication with
  relevant parties to align activities and
  coordination for future deliverables
• The baseline and continuous monitoring are vital
  to the existence of any initiative
• Education system has to adapt new innovations in
  the education
• Dissemination of information on changes to the
  education system need to be communicated to
  communities to ensure support

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Lessons Learned

• Focus on teachers success stories buy in new
  teachers to the process
• Change Management component is very essential to
  the process and has to be introduced to the
  process from the beginning
• Public Private Partnership (PPP) is valuable to
  the process where government can learn new ways
  of doing business, managing change and injecting
  new vision and spirit into their work
• Early alignment of ministry and field
  requirements and JEI concepts improves progress
  and reduces confusion (Deployment Group)

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Risks and Challenges

• The deployment process of the newly developed
  curricula, teacher training, and technology in
  the 100 Discovery Schools is proving to be
  extremely complex and may require additional time
  than the originally planned
• The World Economic Forum sponsorship to the
  initiative will most likely end in June 2006.
  The impact on future partners commitment is
  uncertain
• Lack of clarity around future role of the JEI as
  it pertains to ERfKE and the broader social
  development agenda

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Our Path FORWARD

• Continue the implementation and roll-out of JEI
  on-line curricula across the Discovery Schools
• Re-assess the outcomes of the JEI objective to be
  reflected in the Master Plan
• Continue the development of innovative products
  and test the different models
• Continuous collaboration with ERfKE Integrated
  Plan and deploy the success models on national
  level

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Thank You
Jordan Education Initiative
a public-private partnership model for effective
and advanced learning deployment