iSchool has produced a complete eLearning environment covering the entire Zambian primary school curriculum. Its Total Learning Environment (TLE) provides some 6,000 detailed lesson plans for teachers, covering every single lesson. There are over 2,500 interactive lessons for students (with all early grades being in English and 8 local languages) and a one-year teacher training course. The whole ‘package’ is aimed at ensuring that even an untrained teacher in a rural community school can deliver high quality interactive enquiry-based learning. And the students are being taught to be problem solvers and life-long learners using material of an international standard.

The learning is all web-based (with additional material available for home users and communities around schools) but it is also available in a semi-offline mode (with periodic updates over weaker internet links) and a fully offline model based on high-quality low-cost tablet computers which have recently emerged, and which are capable of running off solar power and can be used in any classroom environment, but which can still make use of internet connectivity where it is available.
iSchool is thus purpose-built for the African environment. The TLE has been successfully tested over the last two and a half years and has recently been launched on a wider scale in Zambia. It is now being adapted for other countries in the region.
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