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Can NOKIA's 'MoMath' program help African Universities - or can African Universities

improve the 'MoMath' program?'

Riitta Vänskä Senior Manager, Mobile and Learning

Solutions Nokia CR&R

date of presentation Copyright Advancement Academy 1

Nokia Internal Use Only

By the end of the session we will

• Get familiar with Nokia Mobile Mathematics service (MoMaths)

• Know the impact of the service for learning and teaching

• Know the challenges in implementing mobile learning for formal learning

• Know Nokia’s plans to make the service sustainable

• Get some ideas *How to harness Nokia service for teaching and learning at my university*



© 2011 Nokia Corporate Social Investment

Mobile Mathematics facilitates development

Mobile Mathematics provides

• Theory

• Examples

• Exercise

• Hints

• Tests

• Learner’s own activity/scores

• Learners’ comparing their activity/scores

locally/globally

• Collaboration spaces

• Teacher tutoring

• Peer-to-peer tutoring

• Competitions

Mobile Mathematics enables

teachers

• to manage learner participation

• to communicate with learners

• to motivate learners

• to monitor and assess learners’

achievement

• to access class relevant content

• to enrich teaching activities

Impact

• Learners competence score improved 14 %

• 82 % of the usage happens outside schools hours,

during holidays, weekends and mornings and

evenings

• Learners have better awareness of their maths

competences

• Teachers have better awareness of their learners’

competences

• More collaboration between learners and learners and

teachers

Mobile Mathematics enables

learners

• to access content and study

packages for grade10 and grade

11 mathematics

• to interact with others

• to participate and learn actively

• to collaborate on problem solving

• to motivate and be motivated

Mobile Mathematics provides

• Theory

• Examples

• Exercise

• Hints

• Tests

• Learner’s own activity/scores

• Learners’ comparing their activity/scores locally/globally

• Collaboration spaces

• Teacher tutoring

• Peer-to-peer tutoring

• Competitions



Implementation

methodologies

• Approaching and engaging

children with their own tools

• Learning is part of children’s life

• Learner is focused

• Positive competition

• For formal and for informal learning

• Combining learning and social

networking

• For learners and for teachers

• Free service for learners

• For all phones

• Scalable

• Affordable

• Replicable

• Sustainable

Co-operation with

global and local

experts

Partners

Nokia , NSN (Nokia Siemens Network), South African

operators (MTN, CellC), Finnish operators (Telia

Sonera, Elisa, DNA), Content provider (MML/Pearson

Foundation), Provincial DOE, Mxit, DOE, SAFIPA,

DST, DOC, Presidency, Finnish Foreign Ministry,

Global experts, Local experts, MERAKA



Structural set up – overview for in-

formal learning

Social features

Nokia

and/or

service

developer

Content

Government / Education authority - participation recommend

Nokia or /local

server hosting

partner

Service

Development

Front-end:

Mobile

web

application

by Nokia

Back-end:

Moodle

Learning

Management

System

Mobile

Mathematics

Solution

on a device

Relevant content • localized

• adapted to curriculum

• new content

Local

content

partner

Content Content

Digital

Content

Learning activities/collaboration

Learners

Hosted service

either on local servers

or on cloud

Moodle

messaging FB?

Operators

Data

service



Structural set up – overview for

formal learning

Social features

Nokia

and/or

service

developer

Content

Government / Education authority

Local server

hosting partner

Service

Development

Mobile

Mathematics

Solution

on a device

Relevant content • localized

• adapted to curriculum

• new content

Local

content

partner

Content Content

Digital

Content

Learning activities/collaboration

Moodle

messaging FB? Service

Management

Local

service

managemen

t partner

Operators

Data

service and

zero-rating

Schools/Teachers

School

selection

Teacher

training

and

support

Learners

Hosted service

either on local servers

or on cloud

Front-end:

Mobile

web

application

by Nokia

Back-end:

Moodle

Learning

Management

System



Project Start Date: 15.10.2008 in South Africa by the request

of Vice President.

Tight co-operation with Presidency and Department of

Education

2009:

6 schools, 300 learners and 12 teachers in South

Africa (in Western Cape, Gauteng and North West provinces)

Achievements:

• Proof of concept, content and technology solution

In South Africa. Service which integrates learning and

social media application (Mxit)

• Tight co-operation with South African operators in zero

rating the service



2010:

30 schools, 400 learners and 70 teachers in South

Africa (in Western Cape, North West and Eastern Cape )

Tight co-operation with Presidency and Department of

Education

Achievements:

• Evidence of impact on learning results: Research

demonstrates 14% better competences for those who

are using the service. 82 % of the usage happens

outside school hours. Research made by external

researchers.

• Affordability: learners use their own devices, running

costs and data delivery costs for the service are

affordable



2011:

150 schools, 14 000 learners and 500 teachers in South

Africa (In North West, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and

Free State)

Tight co-operation with Provincial Department of

Education

Pilot started in Finland with 300 learners and 8 teachers

Achievements:

• Browser based technology piloted in Finland. Proof that

the same concept provides added value in an

advanced information society country. Research results

show good results of the usage.

• Tight co-operation with Finnish operators for getting the

service free for Finnish learners

• Cloud computing solution developed

• Proof of scalability to enable expansion to new countries



2012:

60 000 learners in formal education system and 150 000

learners in informal space in South Africa

Tight co-operation with Provincial Department of Education

and Department of Science and Technology

500 learners in Finland (high schools and one Business

College)

Expanding the service to new countries (Tanzania, Senegal (in

co-operation with UNESCO) and 2013 to Nigeria

Investigating possibilities to integrate Nokia Mobile

Mathematics to Life Tool service in order to get

Sustainability

Achievements:

• Replicability readiness for expansion to new countries



Good uptake and

use in 2010

• 30 schools - 3,958 Grade 10 mathematics learners:

• 66% of the learners registered visited the service.

• 2,136 learners were active users, completing at least one practice exercise

or test on the service:

– 54% of all the registered learners, and

– 82% of the learners who visited the service.

• 656 learners used the service regularly during 2010 (completing more than

16 exercises or tests)

• 121 learners were extensive users (completing more than 45 exercises and

tests)

• 9 learners (from 4 different schools), completed more than 1,000 exercises

and tests each. One learner completed 3,026 tests and exercises.



Even better uptake

and use in 2011

• 20% of the learners that used the service in 2010, continued using the

service in 2011, despite being in Grade 11.

• 2011 saw:

– More schools

– More learners

– More active learners

– More exercises and tests

– More done per learner

– Researched impact on mathematics results



More schools

6

30

90

120

165

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

180

2009 pilot 2010 3provinces

2011 (Jan -July) 3

provinces

2011 (wholeyear) target

for 4provinces

2011 (Jan-Nov) 4

provinces

Nu

mb

er

of

sch

oo

ls

Momaths school reach



More learners

258

3 124

7 410

15 416

2 136

6 310

12 871

705 752

0

2000

4000

6000

8000

10000

12000

14000

16000

18000

2009 2010 (wholeyear)

2011 (Jan-July) 2011 (Jan-Nov)

Nu

mb

er

of

learn

ers

Momaths learner reach

Grade 10 registered learners

Grade 10 active learners

Grade 11 active learners (using Grade 10 service)



More ‘active

learners’ An ‘active learner’ has

completed at least one practice

exercise or test.

% of Active learners shows

how many of the registered

learners, have proceeded to

complete at least one exercise

or test.

•In 2010 learners were

automatically registered (from

class lists).

•In 2011 learners registered

themselves. They were then

more active learners

68%

85% 83%

19%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

2010 (wholeyear)

2011 Grade 10s(Jan-July)

2011 Grade 10s(Jan-Nov)

2011 Grade 11susing Grade 10

service (Jan-Nov)

% Active learners



More

exercises

and tests

Practice exercises consist of

5-10 questions on a topic, and

at a degree of difficulty.

Questions are randomly

generated from a database.

Learners may complete these

repeatedly.

Tests are also randomly

generated.

Tests may only be completed

once by each learner.

62 894,00

328 322

575 131

23 835

0

100000

200000

300000

400000

500000

600000

700000

2010 (wholeyear)

2011 Grade 10s(Jan-July)

2011 Grade 10s(Jan - Nov)

2011 Grade 11susing Grade 10service (Jan-

Nov)

Momaths practice exercises and tests completed



Minimum number of questions

completed

314 470

1 641 610

2 875 655

119 175

0

500 000

1 000 000

1 500 000

2 000 000

2 500 000

3 000 000

3 500 000

2010 (whole year) 2011 Grade 10s(Jan-July)

2011 Grade 10s(Jan - Nov)

2011 Grade 11susing Grade 10

service (Jan-Nov)

Momaths practice and test questions completed



More done

per learner

By July 2011, learners were, on

average, completing more

practice exercises and tests

than the learners in 2010

completed over the whole year.

The 705 Grade 11 learners still

using the Grade 10 service

were using it more often than

was the case in 2010. NOTE: Practice exercises consist of 5-

10 questions on a topic

29,4

37,3

44,7

31,7

0,0

5,0

10,0

15,0

20,0

25,0

30,0

35,0

40,0

45,0

50,0

2010 (wholeyear)

2011 Grade10s (Jan-

July)

2011 Grade10s (Jan-

Nov)

2011 Grade11s usingGrade 10

service (Jan-Nov)

Average number of practice exercises and tests per active learner



Impact on

results

• Analysis of results from 1,950 learners on their 2010 academic results:

• On average, the final Grade 10 maths marks of learners who used Momaths

regularly were 7% better than their peers who did not use the service.

– On average, the Grade 10 maths marks of learners who did not use

Momaths dropped by 17% from their Grade 9 marks.

– The marks of their peers who did use Momaths regularly dropped by

11% from their Grade 9 marks.

(2010 academic year)

Context: Grade 10 marks tend to drop from Grade 9



Impact on

results 1,950 learners in 2010

50%

33%

51%

40%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

45%

50%

55%

60%

Grade 9 result Grade 10 result

Math

em

ati

cs r

esu

lts (

%)

Non-users

Regular users



Biggest impact

on Those failing or getting

distinctions in Grade 9

Learners failing Grade 9 mathematics

(code 2) Non users Regular users

Impact of

service

Average Grade 10 Mathematics result 24% 32% 8% better result

Average shift in Mathematics result from

Grade 9 to Grade 10 -9% -1% 8% better shift

Learners getting distinctions in Grade 9

mathematics (code 7) Non users Regular users

Impact of

service

Average Grade 10 Mathematics result 55% 63% 8% better result

Average shift in Mathematics result from

Grade 9 to Grade 10 -31% -23% 8% better shift


Exercise

• http://momaths.org/m

• Username: learner1….learner20

• Password: math


http://momaths.org/m



Know the challenges in

implementing mobile learning for

formal learning

• Ecosystem needed

• Support and push needed especially for teachers

• Motivational aspects needed for learners


Govt

Provincial DoE

National DoE

DST DoC

Presidency

Research/ Evaluation

MERAKA

DST

Rhodes University

NBA

Nokia Mobile Mathematics:

mobile learning service for formal-

and informal learning

Gov

Technology

platform

Content providers

Operators

Trainers/Suport partners

CSI/Funders

Research/ Evaluation

Sustainability

Scaling up

Sustainability

Content

providers

Corporate

sponsors

Local NGOs

Consulting

companies

Technology Platform

Nokia

Moodle

Mixit

OviChat

Bitville

Meraka/Tutori

ng

Content providers

MML

Pearson Foundati

on

Mindset

Other vendors

Scaling up

Nokia

COL

ChildFund

DFID

World Bank

UNICEF

UNESCO

Finnish Foreign Ministry

Operators/ zero rating

Vodacom

MTN

Cell C

USASA

CSI/ Funders

Nokia

ESKOM

MML

Finnish Foreign Ministry

Trainers/

support partners

SchoolNet

Mindset

Universities

TTIs



Know Nokia’s plans to make the

service sustainable

• Challenges in sustainability

• Life Tools



Get some ideas *How to harness

Nokia service for teaching and

learning at my university*

• Discussion


For more information look at

• www.momaths.org



Thank you!

Riitta Vänskä

Senior Manager. Mobile and learning solutions

Nokia CR&R

Phone: +358 40 544 2276

E-mail: [email protected]

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