Thank you for sharing these innovative ideas around big data for education. This is critical in a world with over 96% primary school enrollment in most developing countries, but very poor performance on actual learning outcomes.
Based on a range of literature, and my own experience in education research across India and East Africa, it's clear that one of the largest constraints to any innovation is the high teacher to student ratio in most public schools. Teachers struggle to complete the government-mandated syllabus, let alone introduce additional learning content and resources like those on Pinterest. Would you have any suggestions on how to ensure that these digital resources map onto official syllabus on a lesson-by-lesson level? A startup I know in India might have some useful tips:
http://zaya.in/about/
Thank you for sharing these innovative ideas around big data for education. This is critical in a world with over 96% primary school enrollment in most developing countries, but very poor performance on actual learning outcomes. Based on a range of literature, and my own experience in education research across India and East Africa, it's clear that one of the largest constraints to any innovation is the high teacher to student ratio in most public schools. Teachers struggle to complete the government-mandated syllabus, let alone introduce additional learning content and resources like those on Pinterest. Would you have any suggestions on how to ensure that these digital resources map onto official syllabus on a lesson-by-lesson level? A startup I know in India might have some useful tips: http://zaya.in/about/