Hitch Nigeria and 11 other African EdTech Companies named First Fellows at Centre for Innovative Teaching and Learning in ICT.
HITCH is an educational platform developed by Nigerians that uses machine-learning software to curate videos based on African curricula while operating independently of Internet and power constraints.
HITCH provides videos covering general skills development and academic topics of interest that can be explored for self-directed learning.
HITCH supports African schools with curated, high-quality educational content is one of the first cohort of 12 EdTech Fellows, companies that will benefit from the Mastercard Foundation Centre’s support to expand their operations and improve secondary teaching and learning across the continent.
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The Mastercard Foundation Centre for Innovative Teaching and Learning in Information, Communications, and Technology (ICT) said the Fellows were selected after an Africa-wide Request for Proposals late last year.
Innovators were invited to submit proposals that either; enhance and increase accessibility and affordability of professional development for in-service teachers, which also minimizes their out-of-classroom time; or creates and delivers enriched learning content that improves quality, relevance, and accessibility to both in-school and out-of-school secondary school learners.
The Centre for Innovative Teaching and Learning is a five-year initiative. It was launched in 2018 as part of the Foundation’s Young Arica Works strategy to enable 30 million young people, especially young women, to find dignified and fulfilling work by 2030.
The Centre aims to spark innovation and promote promising practices in the use of information and communications technologies for teaching and learning, and to catalyze significant improvements in education across the continent.