Blended learning is a powerful approach to education that combines eLearning solutions with inside-the-classroom teaching and significantly improves student learning. It is very popular in first-world countries. In Pakistan, where there is a severe shortage of qualified teachers, Blended Learning can be a game changer for schools.
Sabaq Foundation, a self-funded non-profit, is Pakistan’s largest and most popular free eLearning content provider. Sabaq has over 5 million users and 17,000+ videos for KG-14 grades in Math, Science, English, Urdu, Computers, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, General Math, General Science, etc.
Sabaq also helps schools implement Blended Learning by using its eLearning content in classroom lectures, a study lab for students, a study at home for students, and tablets/mobile phones for teachers. Schools can use this without any internet (offline).
Sabaq Blended Learning solution offers Sabaq videos and tests for schools to use for grades KG-14. This solution includes the following components for each school:
By using the above-mentioned Sabaq Blended Learning solution, you can significantly improve student learning. Your teachers also suddenly become world-class. As a result, your school performance improves dramatically.
Here is the fastest way to use Sabaq Solution in your classrooms. In a few simple steps, you will have Sabaq Solution working in each classroom.
Make sure one or more of your classrooms have a regular TV (40-inch or larger is preferred) or multi-media. You don’t need a Smart TV or Android TV but that TV will also work if you already have it.
You can register your school with Sabaq Foundation and then obtain pre-configured Android boxes from Sabaq that have a memory card in them to store Sabaq videos and content for offline use. Please obtain one Android box per classroom for offline use (no internet required).
We only provide these Android boxes to simplify things for you and not to earn profit. They are provided to you at their market price plus a small service charge (we are a non-profit organization). These prices are estimated in Nov 2023 and may change in the future:
You will need one set of USB keyboard and mouse for each Android box so when you connect the Android box to your classroom TV / Multi-Media, you can use the keyboard and mouse to easily use Sabaq Solution.
Now that you’ve obtained all the pre-configured Android boxes from Sabaq, you’re ready to use them:
Now that you’ve tested all the Android boxes for each of your classes, you can take them to your school where you may or may not have Internet and the Android box will work in both situations.
If you have an internet connection in the school (even a low bandwidth and unreliable one), the Android box will keep publishing learning activity data onto to Sabaq cloud server from where you will be able to monitor your school’s Sabaq usage remotely (for example, sitting in Islamabad, Lahore, or Karachi while your school is in rural areas).
If you prefer to build Sabaq Solution yourself, you can easily do that if you have somebody with a little bit of computer knowledge and a computer with a high-speed Internet connection. Here are the steps.
Make sure one or more of your classrooms have a regular TV (40-inch or larger is preferred) or a multi-media. You don’t need a Smart TV or Android TV but that TV will also work if you already have it.
You must buy one Android box per classroom yourself from the market. Please note that only these Android Boxes are supported by Sabaq (the prices are estimates in Nov 2023):
You must buy one 128GB or 256GB Memory Card per classroom yourself from the market depending on which Sabaq content you intend to download and use. When you register your school with Sabaq Foundation, you will be provided an Internet download link to download all of Sabaq's content and videos.
Even if your schools do not have high-speed Internet, you initially need a computer with high-speed Internet so you can download all of Sabaq's content and video free of cost. This is only temporary until all of your Android boxes are set up. Then, you can use them in your schools without any Internet or with low-bandwidth Internet since all videos will be stored locally on the memory card inside each Android box.
When you register your school with Sabaq Foundation (please contact us for it), we will provide you Internet download links to download all of Sabaq content and videos. You will need to go through the following steps for it:
The following download options will be provided to you and their memory card size requirement. In each option, all subjects are provided for a single board (Federal, Punjab, Sindh, KPK, or Balochistan):
Now that you’ve copied all the desired content to memory cards (one card per Android box), you’re ready to install Sabaq on the Android box. Do this:
Now that you’ve set up all the Android boxes for each of your classes, you can take them to your school where you may or may not have an Internet and the Android box will work in both situations.
If you have an internet connection in the school (even a low bandwidth and unreliable one), the Android box will keep publishing learning activity data onto to Sabaq cloud server from where you will be able to monitor your school’s Sabaq usage remotely (for example, sitting in Islamabad, Lahore, or Karachi while your school is in rural areas).
Schools should get in touch with us. Although, our solution is totally free but we still like to work closely with schools to make sure they are using our Blended Learning solution effectively.
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