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Darakht-e Danesh Online Library revolutionises education in Afghanistan
Oates, Lauryn

PublishedJanuary 2017
PeriodicalEdition Friday, January 27, 2017, Volume 2017
PublisherPendar Daily
CountryAfghanistan, Asia

ABSTRACT
We created the Darakht-e Danesh (‘knowledge tree’) Online Library, Afghanistan’s first comprehensive digital educational resource collection. We saw technology as offering a shortcut to building the quality of teaching and learning in Afghan schools. By giving teachers direct access to knowledge resources in their own language, we can support an improved quality of teaching: enhancing teachers’ subject-area knowledge and fostering more diverse teaching methodologies in order to improve learning outcomes in Afghan classrooms.

Keywords Afghan books · bilingual OER · digital repository · e-learning · K-12 education · OER · online library tutorials · translations

Other numberJuly 14, 2017
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