In 2012, I got together with a few other individuals to try and crack the problem of poor teacher quality and consequently, poor teaching quality and poor learning by students, especially in government schools in Pakistan. A second objective was to provide engaging self learning materials to students who didn’t or couldn’t attend schools due to social, cultural, environmental or financial constraints. Inspired by the success of The Khan Academy teaching videos and the hole in the wall experiment by Sujatra Misra, and several other educational studies and models, we hypothesised that if educational content and lessons could be delivered in a vibrant, exciting and fun way, we may find learning outcomes being achieved better than they are now, especially given the very poor teaching quality, in government schools, especially those in rural communities. In addition to creating engaging animated learning content we hypothesised that this content could be most effectively delivered by highly engaging teachers, that “awesome teacher” we all remember from our school / college / university days, requiring minimum support from the actual teacher in the class. Hence we decided to create high quality learning content available for FREE to the Universe, and delivered over the Internet … Continue reading Enhancing Learning Quality in Pakistani Schools