Education Transformation

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Recognizing the rapidly increasing demands in educational outcomes, and the more-than-ever reliance of the future of people and societies on the quality of their education, considering that the local educational systems are lagging, our Education Transformation Unit, “Unit for Learning Innovation” works with Educators, Educational Institutions, Schools, Colleges, Universities, and Ministries of Education to lobby, discuss, engage, and develop transformative educational models, both formal and non-formal specific to the local context.

In doing so, we provide the following services among others:

  • Capacity development in educational system
  • Curricula design
  • Research and development of learning models,
  • Assessment of educational systems and curriculum,
  • Content development,
  • Establishing educational monitoring and evaluation,
  • Training in curricula and e-curricula,
  • Drama in teaching and learning,
  • Content development,
  • Monitoring and assessment,
  • Model development,
  • Development of learning objects, comprehensive models that fit the local and regional content.
     

Learning Objects

XLobs

Learning Objects

iLobs

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Research

Through the Learning Objects Initiative, 280 learning objects (LOBs) were developed for first and third grade students (Phase I) and 280 for Grades 2 and 4 (Phase II) in Math, Science, Social Sciences and Arabic. In all, 500 teachers, 100 principals and 100 supervisors in 100 schools were trained and the programme benefited around 10,000 students. In 2017 the University began to scale xLOBs regionally, through two pilot programs one in non-formal setting targeting Syrian refugees in Makani Centers in Jordan and in formal education with the Ministry of Education in Jordan.

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Realizing the new challenges posed by the corona virus and the need now more than ever for students to take learning in their own hands, our unit has started with another Learning Objects initiative that we named i-Lobs. While X-LOBS focuses on the teacher and their teaching method, the i-Lobs focuses on the student and their parents and their learning methods.

Know more about i-LOBS

In an effort to improve the quality of education, support the learning process, enhance life skills and citizenship, and integrate them within the primary education curriculum, Birzeit University, in partnership with teams from the Palestinian Ministry of Education, and with the support of UNICEF, has researched the effects of children learning with Learning Objects to reveal the impact of these objects on the development of students' life skills and citizenship.

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