mtech4ed webinar ustad mobile - realtime school monitoring
TRANSCRIPT
Realtime school monitoring
Problems being addressed How it works The pilot Live demo
Problems being addressed Organizations need data
Attendance Grades Exams
Teachers not tech savvy Limited # of devices & budgets Reducing absenteeism
Attendance
19-25% teacher absenteeism (USAID Meta Analysis 2009)
10-24%Education Budget
(Patrinos and Kagia, 2007)
.07%India's GDP
COSTS:
$1.5bn/yrIn India
(Muralidharan et al 2014)
Conditional transfers work
40% reduction in absenteeism(Duflo and Hanna, 2005)
Using cameras: Using NFC cards:
$335/yrPer teacher
$123/yrPer teacher
Make it work here...
Total budget$100/year
Per child
SystemBudget$2/month
Per class
How it works
Teachers fill in laminated sheet
Teacher uses app to snap photo
App recognizes sheet automatically and uploads data
Study Hall Co-creation & pilot - Intro
Non Formal Education centers Community based teachers Existing M+E system
Call / Text + Manual entry Regular visits
The pilot so far
Tested in 3 non formal education centers Teachers used laminated sheets & tablet Attendance data automatically transmitted
Interesting?
Sign up to our announcements list here: www.ustadmobile.com/ (contact - bottom of page)
Want to beta test? - Contact us Want production version? Will be out by by end
of 2016