The Wideman Education Foundation is an inclusive community that promotes Project Management competencies and skills and organizes a yearly competition that promotes project management skills amongst students in which they are expected to apply Project Management Institute Standards. The competition theme was “giving back to society.”
The winning Waterloo team with the competition judges.
The students’ project was conducted with Teachers Without Frontiers, an NGO in Pakistan that works to empower teachers, particularly women, in remote areas of Pakistan. The students were one of ten groups in MSci 651 who worked to source online teaching resources for teachers to use in their classes. Each group focused on one subject and year and gathered internet based, free resources based on each subject lesson. Over 4,000 resources were sourced for the teachers by the students in the MSci 651 course in the Winter 2018 term. Work has also been undertaken in previous terms and further projects will be conducted in the future.
The victorious group in the WEF competition gathered 552 resources for Grade 7 General Science teachers. The resources included online games, android apps, videos and tutorials, teacher reference documents. self assessments and worksheets, which will improve the education that the teachers are able to undertake in their classroom. Teachers Without Frontiers provides teachers with training and guidance in the use of information technology in their teaching. The team that worked on the project, Masters students from the University’s Department of Management Sciences, are pictured below:
Left to right: Jithin John Matthews, Rafat Tahboosh, Alizeh Zaman, Diana Jaber, Taru Agarwal, and Stephanie Wu (not pictured).
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University of Waterloo Team Winners for Teachers Without Frontiers Project!
TWF is rigorously engaged in a digital literacy programme for its Fellows.
As part of an international collaboration on blended learning and capacity development, the University of Waterloo is collaborating with TWF on a three month long assignment between its students and our Fellows.
The project is being lead by Dr Peter Carr, professor of Dept of Management Sciences, who will supervise approx 10 students to conduct a joint research with TWF Fellows and make recommendations on most via technological solutions for the programme.
Qingdao Declaration - International Conference on ICT and Post-2015 Education
An important milestone for Blended learning and ICTs in education
Cycle III, Teacher's Initiated Professional Development sessions
