HP Inc. has launched its new, comprehensive, digital teaching and learning program, HP Digitally Advanced Schools, in key markets in the Middle East and Africa. The initiative brings together the complete education ecosystem by integrating three components: Devices, solutions and capabilities, all under the HP brand.
Blending hardware and advanced pedagogy technologies into school curriculums, the program aims to ensure an impactful, immersive teaching and learning experience for both students and faculty members, the need for which has been accelerated by the pandemic.
The HP Digitally Advanced Schools program consists of:
Intel-powered HP Notebooks: This includes using a range of HP’s specially designed Education Edition products, such as the HP ProBook x360 11 G1 notebook, to ensure high-performance services for an uninterrupted learning experience.
HP Classeasy: A gamified learning management system, powered by Classera, that is designed to reinvent learning by inspiration, personalization and engagement. Essentially, the platform recreates classroom activities that were conducted in a brick-and-mortar school into a bytes and pixel environment.
HP School Coach: Powered by Mirai, this program aims to improve school performance and student outcomes through high-impact digital teaching and learning, school governance and literacy attainment. The three functions of the program are:
Digital Pedagogy Coach: Helps to create a digital transformation strategy that is unique to each school by conducting a self and external assessment framework.
School Improvement Coach: Puts the regulatory framework of the country into software to be able to track and monitor the performance of the school, based on insights, efficiency and transparency.
Literacy Attainment Coach: This service works on a country’s literacy index and aims to radically improve the literacy reading levels and attainment through artificial intelligence, targeted intervention and professional learning.
Mayank Dhingra, senior education business lead, Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe, HP Inc., said: “Our education solutions are bold, articulate and compelling. The launch of the HP Digitally Advanced Schools program demonstrates HP’s commitment to supporting educators and students, by bringing together technology, expertise and solutions.
“It is no surprise that the education system has been disrupted by the pandemic. As a result, educators need to be agile and quickly adapt to the new reality, to ensure students’ learning stays on track. The launch of the HP Digitally Advanced Schools program highlights the role technology and IT play in keeping students learning from wherever they are, now and into the future,” he added.
