Collaborative Effort

Learning is complex, learners are diverse and ecosystems are intricate. It was therefore important to provide teachers with accurate data locating a student’s current learning level to help move her/him on a personalized plan to reach their learning destination. To achieve this Gyan Prakash Foundation has been collaborating with various organisations that believe in competency-based education to reach more students in rural India.

From where the child is, to where the child needs to be

Gyan Prakash Foundation joined hands with Gooru and India Education Collective in August 2018 to scale the competency based approach through technology. Gooru Navigator is a digital data backbone that provides the teacher with real-time feedback on every children’s learning on each competency. It also offers relevant content suggestions in line with the universal principles of learning. The Gooru Navigator enables the entire ecosystem to coordinate and take informed decisions based on the ‘where’ the child is, to optimize learning in every possible way.

The Navigated Learning Collaborative

The coming together of the three organizations led to the forming of Navigated Learning Collaborative (NLC). The collaborative combines the systemic approach to transformation of public education implemented by India Education Collective and Gyan Prakash Foundation, with the technology for differentiated classroom instruction built on learning science and data science foundations developed by Gooru.

Collaborations across India

Gyan Prakash Foundation as part of NLC has kickstarted the process of onboarding and supporting other organizations to adopt Competency Based Education using the Gooru Navigator tech-platform. Since 2019, the following organizations have taken forward this work forward in their own context and geographies:

Adhyayan Quality Education - Goa

In the academic year 2021-22, the Gooru Navigator platform was piloted in 40 schools in Goa with the aim of demonstrating how the platform aids teachers in competency based education and officers in making decisions based on sound learning data. The implementation was done in partnership with the Directorate of Education(DoE), Goa, and the Adhyayan Quality Education Foundation(AQEF) and Gyan Prakash Foundation.

Based on their experience of the Gooru Navigator pilot in 2021-22, Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, SCERT and DoE Goa decided to adopt the platform for institutionalizing data driven, competency-based education at each level in the education system of the state of Goa.

Kashmir Education Initiative - Kashmir

Kashmir Education Initiative (KEI), an NGO, has been working on its mission of facilitating education of meritorious but financially disadvantaged children for more than a decade. Since 2020, it has been using Gooru Navigator platform to provide quality learning to its students in STEM education.

GMR Varalakshmi Foundation

GMR Varalakshmi Foundation runs remedial learning programs for children in rural areas from Chandrapur District (Maharashtra). It hires local youth to run the learning centres. The local teachers have been using Gooru Navigator as the content and data platform since 2020 for 150 students.

Learning Links Foundation

Learning Links Foundation, as part of its remedial program on foundational literacy and numeracy is piloting the Gooru Navigator platform in some of its projects. From January to March, the Foundation onboarded 1000 students from rural Thane (Maharshtra) on the platform to track their learning levels and provide appropriate support.

Navigator Disha : Contextualizing Technology to Rural Needs

Supported by Cisco’s India Cash Grant Program,  Navigator Disha seeks to contextualize the Learning Navigator Platform and its various apps with offline features in India, to support all types of learners in technologically challenged environments, especially ones with intermittent or poor connectivity. The project is currently in its second year of implementation. It provides navigation ability to achieve learning outcomes for learners through relevant applications with offline features.

The Project will reach 1500 teachers and 50,000 students through them by the end of academic year 2023.

Gyan Prakash Foundation believes that only through collaboration and partnerships, education can be transformed for all children across the country. Do write to us to know more about implementing competency based education in your context.