Shule Direct

Updated Jan 15, 2021

Shule Direct

https://www.shuledirect.co.tz

Ikunyigulila Lazaro

Shule Direct is leveraging existing technologies to improve access to qualified, relevant and contextual digital learning content. Our mission is to improve holistic learning outcomes for children and youth in Africa through digital technology.

Shule Direct leverages existing technologies to improve access to contextual and qualified digital learning resources. We work with qualified teachers to create digitized notes, tutorials, quizzes and multimedia content. Shule Direct’s in-house team of developers develops technological solutions to deliver comprehensive curriculums on web and mobile. Our cloud based repository stores all the re...

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Stage 4: Transition to Scale

Shule Direct has created digitized content for Tanzania and Kenya Secondary School learners and teachers, built technological platforms to allow content creation and dissemination. Over 2000000 users have accessed Shule Direct platforms todate.

Registered in Tanzania

Focus Areas:

Basic Education, Secondary Education, Parent & Family Engagement and 4 MoreSEE ALL

Implemented In:

Tanzania and Kenya

Key Partners

Countries Implemented In

2,092,153

Customers

Employees

$1,468,027

Funds Raised to Date

Verified Funding

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Problem

Over 16 million children are not in school. 7 out of 10 Secondary School teachers are absent in rural Tanzania. Every year millions of children are not able to progress to Secondary School and over 60% of those who did, fail their Secondary School national examination. Budget constraints, low family income levels, harmful traditions, gender discrimination, geographical and physical disabilities make the promise of quality education for all difficult.

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Solution

Educational technology offers an effective and efficient solution to bridge the educational resources divide by providing access to qualified, local content, available to learn at an individual pace, anytime and anywhere. Shule Direct users engage with a virtual teacher and other learners and can test their subject matter comprehension over thousands of interactive quizzes. Monthly surveys inform users’ learning needs and preferences thus allowing for timely updates of Shule Direct platforms.

Target Beneficiaries

The Shule Direct solution provides access to relevant, contextual and qualified digital learning content for both in and out school youth and Secondary school teachers in Tanzania. The success of the implementation of the Shule Direct solution can improve learning outcomes which can potentially benefit the government of Tanzania in particular the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology by improving and meeting learning objectives and targets.

Mission and Vision

Our vision is to ensure that every young person in Africa has access to qualified, relevant learning content, knowledge and skills; that they can access anytime and anywhere to help them realize and fulfill their potential.

Competitive Advantage

Shule Direct learning platforms develop and provide local content that is addressing market needs and filling an existing gap. We develop content in consultation with the users and the stakeholders involved in the ecosystem. This enables us to always be in demand and retain users as much as gaining new ones. Our interfaces are simple and easy to use. Emphasis is placed on a user experience that considers the digital skills level of the users and provision of content in formats that can be supported by available devices. Our solution considers users and their technology advances and not just market technology advances. We have enhanced the users’ experience with integrated artificial intelligence and video content. Shule Direct’s educational content repository and its Application Programmer’s Interface enable the organization and management of potentially massive amounts of information and resources. Content can be added and restructured without interfering with the user interface (UI).

Planned Goals and Milestones

We intend to diversify our content, expand our geographical reach and target audiences to meet different learning needs. We wish to further improve our platforms through AI to enable natural language processing capabilities for the online teacher feature which enables students and teachers to receive instant assistance over our web and mobile platforms. We are also creating new content to support Parents' and Caregivers' involvement as well as to support teachers professional development

	Funding Goal	600,000
	Projected Cumulative Lives Impacted	3,000,000
	New Implemented Countries	Kenya
	Recruit	2 Group Management, 4 Senior Management, 8 Junior Management, 5 Entry Level
	New Feature	Creating Multimedia content to enable young learners comprehend complex Science concepts; and Improving the existing online Teachers' Resource Center with relevant tools and resources for teachers; also work with the Tanzania Institute of Education to re-design a curriculum for In-Service Professional Development training for teachers. Building Ndoto App, a mobile application that will provide entrepreneurship learning content for aspiring young women entrepreneurs and also provide a market place for the women entrepreneurs to market their products and services.

The Team Behind the Innovation

The success of Shule Direct is a result of its motivated and accomplished team. Faraja Nyalandu, the Founder of Shule Direct, has allowed her personal experience with alternative education to be a driving force in the development of Shule Direct. The success of Shule Direct has given its team the essential capabilities to disseminate education through online and offline platforms, as well as be responsive to feedback and update the platform concurrently with the needs of the users.