Mohammed Bin Rashid launches e-school website in 1000 villages not connected to the Internet

UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has launched a school site in 1,000 villages to provide mobile e-learning platforms for remote villages and refugee camps that are not connected to the Internet.

The project offers alternative educational solutions for Arab students in non-Internet areas to leverage the content of the "School" platform, the most prestigious of its kind in the Arab world, within the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Initiatives Foundation, Materials: Science, mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology, covering the school stages of kindergartens, up to grade twelve.

"We launched an initiative today to provide a platform for e-learning, which includes 5,000 educational courses in science and mathematics in Arabic for all levels of education," said His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. In 1000 villages not connected to the Internet, as a first stage to cover all the remote areas in the Arab world .. Fair education is to provide the best educational level for children, even if they inhabited the peaks of the mountains ».

On the importance of e-learning in bridging the educational gap in the Arab world, he said: "Promoting education in the Arab world is an urgent priority. E-learning is the most effective way to empower Arab students." Education in the Arab world is the greatest hope. "E-learning is the ideal solution to reach every Arab student, wherever he may be," he said. "The location of a school in 1000 villages is a message of life, determination and a better future." "The success of our societies, our economies and our future has one key: education."

The project offers four innovative technology solutions: the Smart School Bag, the School School Tablet, the mobile educational content streamer, and the portable external storage units, which provide the educational content provided by a school even without the student or teacher connection Or school through the Internet, through innovative smart solutions, which are applied to facilitate access to the platform «School» in the remote areas of the Arab world, which does not have Internet service. The school will provide technical solutions that overcome the challenge of not having the Internet in some areas of the Arab world, such as the Tablet PC, which is preloaded with the contents of the educational platform, which lasts for at least eight hours, Mobile, dedicated to remote areas, whose battery lasts up to eight hours, and broadcasts educational content over its own open network in non-Internet areas. The device also provides students with other educational materials, including a collection of e-books, cultural content that can be updated periodically, and the device is up to 300 meters, is easily expandable, and anyone with an intelligent device can access and benefit from the content.

At the individual level, the content of the "school" learning platform can be provided on portable external storage units (USB), connected to computers and tablets, access to educational content when the Internet is unavailable, and "school" »Is a compact bag that works as a fully integrated educational chapter that can be easily moved, and contains 20 tablet devices, a content transmitter, a projector, and speakers. The various educational courses include "School" and other educational materials in Arabic, including a specialized collection of e-books and cultural videos, serving as a central broadcasting or communication point to enable students to access content through tablets or other smart devices.

In October, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum launched the Madrasah Platform, one of the initiatives of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Foundation, which includes 5,000 video education courses, including: General Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Kindergartens up to grade 12.

The platform aims to develop a unique educational content in Arabic, which has been adapted to the latest curricula and educational courses in the world and is available free of charge to Arab students anywhere in the world.

1.5 million subscribers

More than 1.5 million students have been on the school platform since its launch, with more than 4 million video tutorials on the platform.

A school simply has the technical requirements to take advantage of its free content, and can be used on various electronic devices and via electronic applications.

The School's platform is the culmination of the joint efforts of hundreds of thousands of hours of work by translators, auditors, designers, technicians and commentators who volunteered to defy translation, announced by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. 2017, to provide world-class educational lessons within the different school stages to integrate with the existing educational system, enhance educational content available in the Arab world, and reach as many Arab students as possible.