In rural Pakistan, most teachers cannot attend continuing education training due to their class schedules, household responsibilities, and cultural and financial constraints. In response, the nonprofit Developments in Literacy (DIL) recently introduced mobile learning, or mLearning, as a way to give teachers easier access to the training and professional development courses they need to better meet the needs of their students.
For Fiza Shah, the CEO of DIL and a Pakistani American, it is her way of giving back.
“Our aim is to provide quality education to the deprived children of Pakistan, especially girls,” she said. “In Pakistan’s small cities and villages, teachers usually do not get the opportunity to receive quality training. The beauty of mobile learning is that the teachers can be in any corner of the country and can watch lessons on their mobile phones that will improve their teaching ability. USAID’s assistance was instrumental to the success of this project.”
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