Madrasah, the largest open educational electronic platform of its kind in the Arab world, launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, in October, recorded more than 45 million visits since its launch, providing more than Five million educational sessions, and reaped more than two million participants, while the daily electronic competitions entitled «1000X1000» more than four million entries.

The Madrasa platform continues to implement a project covering 1,000 remote villages in the Arab region to access the content of the platform, without the need for direct Internet access.

The project includes providing school platform content in 1000 villages in the Arab world, without the need to connect to the Internet, through innovative solutions, such as the school «tablet», the mobile educational content broadcasting device, and «school in a bag», in addition to the option Portable external storage provided as needed.

Saeed Al-Attar, Assistant Secretary General of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, said the school platform is based on the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, that education is a right for all and free education content is a right for students. in the Arab world.

He added that there is a need in the Arab world to promote educational content in Arabic, and make it accessible to the largest segment of students, and «school», which is one of the initiatives of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum global, came in response to this need to promote educational content, taking advantage of the applications of modern technology To reach as many learners and teachers as possible, by translating, localizing and reproducing more than 5,000 instructional videos in mathematics and science.

With the start of the new school year, Madrasa has reinforced its free educational content, making it accessible to more than 50 million students and hundreds of thousands of teachers.

“The goal of Madrasa is to become a reference for the Arab student and support him in his career, while contributing to the empowerment of the Arab teacher by providing a compliant content that supports the curriculum and decentralizes,” said Dr. Walid Al Ali, Director of Madrasah Platform. Education, and motivates students to scientific research and knowledge ».

He added that the average daily classes that were watched through Madrasa reached 15,000, and the daily subscription rate exceeded 6000 new subscribers daily, which indicates the high level of popularity of the educational platform open to all students in the Arab world.

At the beginning of the school year, Madrasa was keen to update the e-platform, enrich the learning experience by applying the concept of “gamification in education”, facilitate the use of the platform, and provide playlists that combine video lessons into interconnected groups that simulate the viewing patterns of each participant.

Under the slogan 'Learn and Have Fun', Madrasah's platform introduces the principle of 'gamification in education' as an additional and innovative way to encourage students in the Arab world to continue their educational attainment and self-learning, motivate them, foster a spirit of positive competition, and develop their interactive abilities by combining interest and fun.

Maitha Omar, Development and Innovation Officer at the platform, said that gaming is one of the most modern methods of modern education by creating an interactive mechanism that motivates students to learn and compete in an entertaining and entertaining way that keeps boredom from learning and contributes to spontaneous and entertaining information. .

The platform has launched an awareness campaign under the name of #teacher, an integrated field and virtual campaign to introduce students, their parents and teachers across the Arab world to what the platform offers.

Madrasa intends to introduce future additions to scientific content by enriching it with new courses and materials covering computer, programming, artificial intelligence and space science.

Distinguished educational curricula

Madrasa is the product of the Translation Challenge launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum two years ago to localize 11 million words of content of world-class curricula in science and mathematics, with the participation of volunteers from various disciplines, and is a first step to provide quality educational content in Arabic.

Motivate students

Madrasah held 35 teachers' workshops in 26 Ministry of Education training centers across the UAE, benefiting 1,356 teachers, to introduce them to the idea of ​​the platform and the mechanisms to make the best use of the diverse educational content it provides, in addition to providing them with the best ways to motivate students to enroll in Platform.

Introducing the gamification system in education to motivate students to learn in an entertaining and competitive manner.

Platform «School» intends to add artificial intelligence and space science to scientific content.