To provide learning opportunities for refugees, IDPs and students in less fortunate areas
Mohammed bin Rashid launches the operational phase of the digital school
Mohammed bin Rashid during the inauguration of the digital school in a special event held at the "Expo Dubai".
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His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, inaugurated the first operational phase of the "Digital School" in five countries: Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Mauritania and Colombia. In the first year, more than 20,000 students will benefit from it. A vision that seeks to double the number of students to reach one million students affiliated with the school within five years.
This came in a special event held at the Dubai Expo, where His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said: "Our goal is to reach digital learning towards new horizons, because digital learning is the education of the future and the future of education."
Regarding the initiative aimed at providing learning opportunities for refugees, displaced persons and students in disadvantaged areas in different countries around the world, His Highness added: “The digital school, with its educational and knowledge content based on global standards, reflects our belief that education is a right for all... and that equal educational opportunities are the basis of comprehensive development. and sustainable.”
His Highness continued: "The digital school seeks to enhance the future of education, ensure continuous innovation in it, and consolidate digital learning as a strategic investment for the future."
The inauguration of the first operational phase of the digital school in its first year was attended by H.H. Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Lt. General H.H. Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, and H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, and members of the Digital School Board of Directors, which includes:Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Digital School, Omar bin Sultan Al Olama, Assistant Minister of Cabinet Affairs for Strategic Affairs, Huda Al Hashemi, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Director General of the Knowledge and Human Development Authority in Dubai, Dr. Abdullah Al Karam, and Secretary General of the Authority The Emirates Red Crescent, Dr. Muhammad Ateeq Al Falahi, the CEO of Dubai Cares, Dr. Tariq Al Gurg, the Assistant Professor at the College of Technological Studies in Kuwait, Dr. Muhammad Qassem, and the Secretary General of the Digital School Project, Dr. Waleed Al Ali.
The event highlighted the objectives of the digital school in its first year to reach students in five countries, train 500 teachers, set up 120 learning centers, and provide world-class educational content in three languages: Arabic, French and Spanish.
The digital school is the first integrated digital school that provides distance education in a smart and flexible way, so that students can join it wherever they are, focusing primarily on the less fortunate, the deprived and refugees in Arab societies and the world.
The digital school provides digital study and enrichment materials that are compatible with the Arab and international curricula, and provides an opportunity to interact with a number of licensed teachers and their colleagues through virtual classrooms.
The digital school operates through the widest international and international partnership of its kind within a knowledge alliance that seeks to mobilize efforts and resources to provide opportunities for quality education to millions of students around the world, wherever they are.
The digital school aims to reach one million male and female students in the first five years, focusing primarily on students in disadvantaged communities and disadvantaged groups.
As part of its quest to lead digital education towards new horizons, and based on the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum that digital education is the education of the future and the future of education, the digital school works to be at the heart of new changes in this vital field by making use of the latest technologies and applications of artificial intelligence and by building International cooperation partnerships with more than 30 educational, technical and development institutions around the world through the establishment of the “Digital Learning Future Alliance.”
The digital school is supported by the “Digital Learning Future Alliance”, the first of its kind that works to unify efforts in the field of the future of digital education globally, and supports the digital school in launching the latest initiatives and innovations in the field of education, developing standards, practices and technologies for digital education, and setting standards and work guides. For the future of digital education and its services.
The digital school also announced the signing of strategic support and cooperation agreements with leading institutions in charitable, humanitarian and knowledge work, such as the Awqaf and Minors Affairs Foundation in Dubai, where it allocated a sustainable endowment, the proceeds of which will go to spread education through the digital school, as well as with the Emirates Red Crescent Authority to establish 1,000 learning centers for the digital school. During five years, he cooperated with Dubai Cares to provide support and advisory expertise, and a strategic cooperation agreement with Arizona State University as a strategic partner in training and capacity building for teachers, and Microsoft International to cooperate in providing and developing modern digital education solutions for the digital school.
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum met the strategic and supportive partners during the ceremony.
The digital school has concluded strategic memoranda of understanding with many institutions and entities concerned with the future of digital education and innovation in it, including the Mobile Learning Alliance, the World Food Program, Dubai Cares, and Amazon.
The digital school has an international advisory board that includes a selection of international experts from reputable institutions and bodies such as the United Nations Children’s Fund “UNICEF”;
the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization “UNESCO”;
the international “Generation Unlimited” initiative, a global partnership that aims to ensure that young men and women around the world are enrolled in education, training or employment by 2030;
Harvard University;
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
the University of New South Wales Sydney;
Arizona State University, and the Brookings Institution.
The digital school system relies on six main components: interactive digital content, learning technology appropriate to the application environment, professional development for teachers and educational facilitators, local and international partnerships to achieve the sustainability of digital education, the educational model based on enhancing independent learning skills, and continuous measurement and evaluation using data.
The Digital School is also keen to empower learning communities, teachers and professional development for them, educational leaders and educational facilitators through an integrated training program for teachers in partnership with Arizona State University to qualify 1,500 digital teachers over the next three years.
The training program includes a dedicated track for teachers, educational facilitators, school administrators, and education officials, and offers a blended learning course that combines self-learning and coaching for a period of up to six months, after which the trainee who passes his requirements will receive a certificate issued by the digital school and approved by the Arizona State University.
It is available in four languages: Arabic, English, French and Spanish.
The digital school adopts an advanced digital platform, which constitutes one of the best global digital learning platforms, as it dedicates a page to each country to meet its requirements, such as language, visual identity, educational content, and a nationally approved curriculum.
It also provides study plans and digital content for the targeted stages, in a systematic manner, and motivates students by providing digital badges and direct assessments.
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum launched the "Digital School" initiative in November 2020, under the umbrella of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation, as a strategic educational initiative aimed at providing digital learning options for students, especially in remote and developing areas, and providing digital learning options for students. A qualitative option for integrated and distance learning by taking advantage of technology solutions and artificial intelligence applications to enhance learning opportunities for students wherever they are and in different circumstances, and to offer an integrated, flexible and approved digital educational curriculum for different educational levels that takes into account the personal needs of each learner, develops knowledge and skills by relying on advanced digital technologies, and establishes standard standards For digital education, in cooperation and coordination with various local, regional and international bodies concerned with developing the future of digital learning.
The digital school aims to increase the number of beneficiaries of the digital learning options it offers to one million students during the next five years, train 1,500 teachers in the next three years and expand the scope of the Digital Learning Future Alliance to include more international institutions concerned with access to education for all, thus enhancing the achievement of the objectives of the dissemination axis. Education and knowledge, one of the five main pillars of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives programs for a better future for humanity.
The Digital School establishes strategic partnerships to enhance digital learning solutions
The "Digital School", the first integrated digital learning school of its kind, and one of the global initiatives of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, signed a set of strategic partnerships that were announced in conjunction with the inauguration of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler Dubai, the first operational phase of the "Digital School".
The partnerships were signed during the inauguration ceremony of the digital school, in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, at the UAE pavilion at Expo 2020.
The digital school has concluded strategic partnership agreements with: the Emirates Red Crescent Authority, to be the strategic partner for the project to establish 1000 learning centers for the digital school around the world, the Dubai Cares Foundation, which works to enhance the digital school’s partnerships portfolio internationally and consolidate its position at the global level, and State University Arizona, to be the strategic partner for training and qualifying digital teachers, the Awqaf and Minors Affairs Foundation in Dubai as a main supporter, by allocating a sustainable charitable endowment to support the digital school, and Microsoft to be a strategic partner in developing future digital education technologies.
The partnerships aim to support the establishment and equipment of digital learning centers and the provision of training programs to prepare teachers in digital education disciplines, in addition to providing sustainable endowment funds to support and expand the school’s activities, and the achievement of a qualitative infrastructure that uses the latest technology in the field of digital learning and continues to innovate in it, for its The "Digital School" initiative, which launched its activities in the first phase in Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Mauritania and Colombia, will reach the largest number of beneficiaries around the world in the coming stages.
Deputy Head of State:
• “Our goal is to reach digital learning towards new horizons, because digital learning is the education of the future and the future of education.”
• «The digital school with its educational and knowledge content based on international standards that reflects our belief that education is a right for all».
five countries
In coordination with local authorities and national education systems, the digital school is working in its first year in five countries: Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Mauritania and Colombia, to design an advanced digital education system that conforms to the specificity of the countries and communities concerned, and adopts the latest applications of technology, artificial intelligence and educational tools available to meet the educational needs of the benefiting students of the initiative.
And in three languages initially, Arabic, French and Spanish, and with materials that match the nationally approved curricula in the countries and communities concerned and present them through a modern digital education platform, the digital school provides digital educational lessons in mathematics, science, Arabic, computer, and others, in virtual classrooms. and compact.
million learners
The digital school aims to reach one million learners during the first five years, with a focus on the least fortunate and most in need of support, by adopting an advanced student-centered educational model that employs advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence, to provide a smart personal learning plan for each student based on systems Data analysis, in order to ensure that the learning process is customized according to the performance and skills of each student and to meet his needs, and to benefit from the “digital teacher” to support the student in his study plan and follow-up on his educational attainment, while providing a comprehensive assessment mechanism, within the learning stages.
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