Project Overview 2006-2011

Maria Melizza D. Tan

With eSkwela, there is fun...
eSkwela PM, Commission on ICT there is discovery...
there is engagement...
Turnover Ceremonies * 29 April 2011 there are partnerships and
opportunities...
but more importantly, there is hope!
 Enter/Stay Drop Out

100 0 2008 figure:

34
9 Million
80 42
57 +4M
60 77 illiterates
86
100
40 BALS
66 58 estimates:
20 43
40 M dropouts
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ALS for EFA!
Grade 1 Grade 6 HS I HS IV College I College
Graduate Graduate Graduate

•
I
DepEd-BALS:
Accreditation &
Equivalency Program
• Life skills for out-of-school
youth and adults
C
T
• Filled with challenges
 CICT's ICT4E: Comprehensive
Educators
Approach
Applications Content Dev Infrastructure
Training Dev Deployment

Elem eSchools: pipeline

HS

Future-Gov Government Technology Awards 2009 –

Digital Inclusion + Philippine ICT Awards for Digital Inclusion
by the CIO Forum

ALS (Infra:
only for pilot)
UNESCO Certificate of Commendation – ICT in Education Innovation Jeepney ni JanJan:
Awards 2007-2008 AND Honorable Mention at the 2010 UNESCO King Outstanding Client
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICT in Education Application of the Year
for Game
Tertiary Development in
eServices 2010 by DTI
&
Community
 Journey

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City
 Project Components

Infrastructure Set-up Customized

(community / shared facilities; Instructional Model
application process) (CICT & BALS)
Content & Apps Devt

Training for
Monitoring &
LFs, CMs, NAs
Evaluation
(CICT, BALS,
(CICT & BALS)
community)

Community Support
for Operations and
Sustainability
(covered by MOA)

Multi-stakeholder approach
 eSkwela Instructional Model (ver 2)
Life Skills, Blended, Self-paced, Localized, RBL & PBL
Tertiary
Education /
College

eModules

Learning Other A&E Test

Facilitator/s Learners

Learner
Entry
(different Other Learner Forum
VocTech /
goals): Resources Livelihood
Courses

•FLT
•Interview Community Mentors/
•ILA Experts
Employment

Project
(Learner Portfolio)

eSkwela Module Guides via LMS Personal Growth

A LEARNING COMMUNITY VIA INTERNET & INTRANET
 PRINT-based
Life SkillsModules

appropriate multimedia

interactive

simplified

contextualized

localized

e-learning content
Module Guides

LINKS TO
WEBSITES

FORUM /
WIKI &
TESTS

FORUM

PROJECT options: letter, article, photo essay multimedia video, recorded

interview, song, radio play, brochure, blog, wiki, Google Group, ning,
Facebook, YouTube, etc.
Enhanced Content Development Process
Concept Storyboards Storyboards
Turnover of
& Theme & Scripts & Scripts
Sources Workshop Production Review

Alpha Alpha Alpha

Production Review Revisions

Beta Beta
Review Review
(Reviewers) (Learners)

Beta
Certification Distribution
Revisions
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LF Training Workshops (maturity
model)
 eSkwela Center Life Cycle

• Social
Mobilization
(local or via
project team)

• PPP
• M&E: Instructional Stakeholders’
Model + Site commitment;
Operations Steering
• Budget cycles Committee,
• Steering assignment of
Committee roles
meetings • Legal documents
• Periodic • Infrastructure
assessment of Set-up and
center System
performance installation
• Blended learning sessions • Trainings
• Learner Orientation • Learner
• Regular maintenance Selection
• Launch
 REGION Operating To operate
sites by May
2011

NCR 8+1 3
CAR 4 -
1 15 0
2 2 -
3 4 -
4A 4 -
4B 4 1
5 10 4
6 3 1
7 4 2
8 11 2
9 7 0
10 3 1
11 5 1
12 3 -
Partnerships... 13 2 -
Innovations...
ARMM - -
Empowerment...
TOTALS 90 15
Community building...
 Additional Interventions
• Monitoring & Evaluation mechanisms: site
operations and use of Instructional Model
• Empowered Project Team
• Designation & Training of ALS implementers as:
– Regional Coordinators
– National Trainers for Learning Facilitators
– Regional Trainers for Network Administrators
• Management Training for Center Managers
• Technical Training for Network Administrators

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PHYSICAL TARGETS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
(based on the Project LogFrame) as of 29 April 2011
target accomplished slippage
Functional customized ICT4E (ALS) Instructional model
Enhanced Framework 1 1 0%
eModules & corresponding Module 283 207 27%
Guides (A&E) developedv (to be used (148 of which
for free) have been
certified by
BALS)
eModules (others: livelihood & CILC) 61 10 84%
developed (to be used for free)
Mature/Replicable center model
eSkwela Franchise Manual 1 (beta version) 40%
Roadshows conducted for advocacy 17 27 0%
Operational sites 106 90 + 15 15%
(mostly community initiated)
Trained/qualified implementers on prescribed instructional model and center
operations
Training Designs 7 7 0%
Trained field implementers 1,884 1,718 9%
Established management and M&E mechanisms and tools
Mechanisms 4 4 0%
Automated Systems 2 2 0%
 Challenges
• Resistance and apprehension to changes in roles and
strategies
– facilitation of learning
– exploration and experimentation must become habitual
• Need for stronger advocacy on ALS and ICT in Education
(actual utilization instead of mere deployment)
• Recognition of maturity models: ICT competence-and-use,
pedagogical/andragogical practices, community-building
• Focus on A&E Test rather than life skills
• Focus on technical skills rather than content (quality) of
outputs
• Changes take time
– always consider maturity models and handholding mechanisms
– still a long way to go…

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• Site Implementers:
– less work = less routine admin work, more work =
more facilitative
– more open to explore and innovate
– appreciation of monitoring and handholding
interventions; of synergy and community spirit/
support groups
• Learners: free educ, learning is FUN, more
engaged, creative, excited; blended approach
preferred
– flexible, better access to choices (LMS), easier
implementation of self-paced learning
• ICT-supported PBL = real-life application + 21st
C skills + additional income-generating skill

A&E Test Performance eSkwela Average National

Average
Feb 2008 (4 sites) 57% 29%
Oct 2008 (5 sites) 65% 23%
Oct 2009 (partial: 9 46% 21%
sites)
 a beacon of hope...

~ served an estimated 4,700 learners since 2007

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 "A Search for New Heroes”

Computerworld Honors Program

Laureate for 2011
Education/Training Category

• one of 255 laureates from 1,000++ entries worldwide

• recognition for individuals and organizations who create and
innovatively use information technology to promote and
advance public welfare, contribute to the greater good of
society, and change the world for the better
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 Key Success Factors

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 Moving Forward

BALS

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City
 Immediate Next Steps
CICT
• Detailed documentation, including user feedback,
lessons learned, good practices, recommendations
• Finish all pending e-content

DepEd (via the eService of ALS)

• Continuous enhancement of eSkwela 1.0
• eSkwela 1.1 (114 BP-OSA schools + 211 ALS
Community Learning Centers = 325 sites PLUS
impact study on eSkwela 1.0)
• Expansion to other sites with various partners

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 With eSkwela, there is fun...
there is discovery...
there is engagement...
there are partnerships and opportunities...
but more importantly, there is hope!
 

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City
Salamat
po. cict.eskwela@gmail.com
http://alseskwela.ning.com