Daily e-Learning Plan DeLP in the rural area of Pakistan.

1. INTRODUCING e-LEARNING AND MOOCs
IN RURAL AREA SCHOOLS OF PAKISTAN

2. Presentation Contents
• What is the dilemma of education in rural areas of
Pakistan?
• What is DeLP?
• What are the other functions of DeLP?
• What are DeLP standards?
• How DeLP takes it’s form, everyday?
• What is included in DeLP?
• What difference DeLP is making?

3. What is the Dilemma of Education
in Rural Areas of Pakistan
• Lack of quality institutions with trained teachers
• Illiterate parents
• Rote memory based educational approach
• Gender discrimination
• Fewer number of school days
• Difference between urban and rural education

4. What is DeLP?
• DeLP is a plan which is send to the students on
daily basis.
• Its an email in which we send students there daily
activities, exercises and homework.

5. What are the other functions of DeLP?
• Daily e-Learning Plan (DeLP) serves the learning
needs of students living in remote areas.
• The effectiveness of DeLP has been tested and
proved to be effective.
• DeLP subscription has grown 300% by the end of
it first year in practice.

6. What are DeLP Standards?
• Common Core Standards (CCS), provide
learning goals to help prepare students for
college, career, and life.
• State education chiefs and governors in 48 states
came together to develop the Common Core.
• 43 states have voluntarily adopted the standards.
• CCS demonstrate what students are to learn at
each grade.
• These standards also provide a way to measure
student progress.

8. DeLP Knowledge Bank
Number of websites in each category
• English Grammar: 25
• English Novels: 6
• Dictionaries: 3
• Quizzes and Spelling Bee: 6
• English stories: 8
• Islam: 33
• Quran: 6
• Islamic Curriculum: 2
• Science: 55
• Science Experiments: 10
• Urdu: 15
• Presentation topics: 3
• Courses: 16
• Videos and lectures: 11
• History: 17
• Math: 3

9. How DeLP is Developed?
• The competency selected from CCS
•Websites for the selected competency are
carefully selected from the DeLP Knowledge
Bank.
• The classroom activity is developed by the
teacher as well as the teaching websites.
• Homework questions are created using Blooms
Taxonomy.

10. • Presentations, online contents, flashcards,
experiments and animations are added to support
learning.
• The e-mail is sent with the date, day, description
and activities to students on daily basis.
• Students have monthly assessments around the
competencies covered during the month

11. Sample DeLP

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14. How DeLP Helps?
• Students can watch a lecture or a video as many
times as they like
• Covers national curriculum of Pakistan as well as
international standards
• Cost of books and supplies is reduced, everything
a student has to learn is provided online

15. • Provides students with education that meets the
needs of 21st century
• Offers different types of researches in a fast
moving world
• Enables them to earn online diploma from the
best universities of the world
• Provides practical examples which leads to
creativity

16. Study results
• Experimental and control groups were selected.
• There were 58 students in experimental and 50 in
control group.
• Both these groups were located in Sialkot district,
State of Punjab, Pakistan.
• People of this area belong to lower middle class.

17. • 50% of the people in this area are uneducated
while other 50% have high school certification.
• 80% percent of the people in this area work in the
agriculture area.
• The data collection was done over a span of 1
week by 3 researchers.

18. Language Development: Reading Comprehension
Can children read and understand Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory or other novels of same level?
Experimental Group Control Group
Before 40% 40%
After 100% 50%

19. Language Development: Creative Writing
Can children write 11 crafts on a give topic?
Experimental Group Control Group
Before 20% 20%
After 100% 40%
(Diary, Letter, Dialogue, Interview, Narration, Autobiography, Poem, Story, News Story,
Research Report, Advertisement)

20. Applying Scientific Knowledge in Real Life
Are students able to apply scientific knowledge in
real life?
Experimental Group Control Group
Before 30% 30%
After 100% 50%

21. World Awareness
Do students have knowledge about the Countries
of the world?
Experimental Group Control Group
Before 35% 35%
After 100% 35%

22. Presentation Skills
Can students prepare and make a presentation in
front of other students?
Experimental Group Control Group
Before 18% 18%
After 100% 22%

23. Time Required for Instructions by Teacher
How much of teacher time is needed on daily
basis?
Experimental Group Control Group
Before 120 minutes 120 minutes
After 20 minutes 120 minutes

24. Mathematics Application in Real Life
Can children apply Mathematics in real life
situations?
Experimental Group Control Group
Before 33% 33%
After 100% 50%

25. Higher level thinking around Blooms Taxonomy
Can students answer analysis, synthesis and
evaluation questions?
Experimental Group Control Group
Before 20% 20%
After 100% 30%

26. Conclusion
With DeLP
• Less time is spent by a teachers explaining and
more time is used by students for learning,
independently
• Students are more aware about the World
• They have developed higher level thinking
• They can now search and make presentation on
a given topic.
• They can read for comprehension and do
creative writing