Submitted
2021 TPrize Challenge

Minkedu

Team Leader
Andres Quisbert
Solution Overview
Solution Name:
Minkedu
One-line solution summary:
An online learning platform that strengthens the passion and quality of teaching of home (parents) and classroom educators.
Pitch your solution.

18 out of 20 students of different levels and ages have difficulties developing new learning experiences throughout their lives due to the lack of accessibility to education, especially in rural and peri-urban areas. There is a low support for the family to exercise their role as home educators and for teachers to generate didactics according to the reality of the students.

Minkedu is an online learning platform that strengthens the quality and passion for teaching of homeschoolers and classroom. We increase educational accessibility for children and young people from the educator's work through continuous online training with learning routes and content adapted by areas, levels and subjects.

By strengthening the joint work between parents and teachers, we will be able to increase the graduation rates of the school year, entry to higher education, and we will reduce the school dropout of millions of students, mainly in rural and peri-urban areas.

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What specific problem are you solving?

18 out of 20 students of different ages and levels have difficulties in developing new learning experiences throughout the school year, especially in students in rural and peri-urban areas where school challenges are greater. More than 850 million children and young people - approximately half of the world's student population - remain away from schools and universities

Almost 80% of fathers, mothers of families have abandoned their role as educators in the home, the absence of fathers, mothers of families in the education of their children generates a negative impact on affective, social and cognitive development, especially in children during early and second childhood.

Adding to this problem the almost null training of teachers to create, adapt new teaching methodologies and didactics that respond to the needs, rhythms, learning styles and diversity of students, generate low motivation and school performance, leading to school dropout. , low rates of graduate students and low opportunities to continue higher studies.

Closing the gap between the school-home, teacher-parents and from the quality training of the educator in the classroom and at home, it is possible to impact the learning of the students to generate a quality and inclusive education

What is your solution?

Minkedu is an online learning platform that strengthens the quality and passion for teaching of homeschoolers and classroom. We reduce the lack of educational accessibility for children and young people from the work of the educator through continuous online training with learning routes and content adapted by areas, levels and subjects for the home and classroom.

By strengthening the joint work between parents and teachers, we will be able to increase the graduation rates of the school year, entry to higher education, and we will reduce the school dropout of millions of students, mainly in rural and peri-urban areas.

Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?

From the permanent training of the educator in the classroom and at home, economic, educational and professional growth is achieved so that the educator does not abandon his passion for teaching, especially in rural and peri-urban areas.

Our homeschoolers (parents) have abandoned their role as homeschoolers, leaving such work to the school and teachers, parents are unable to provide effective accompaniment because the vast majority have not completed basic education in the same way the educator In the classroom, it is not able to generate new learning and teaching experiences due to the lack of adapted didactic resources and quality training to respond to the needs of the students. Thanks to our educational research process, we manage to know, experience and feel in the field of action the educational challenges that educators present daily, knowing these needs to allow adapting, creating and designing curricular content focused on the educational communities where the educator operates. Through the adaptation of teaching-learning methodologies and pedagogical models, Minkedu manages to respond to the educational needs presented by the educator in this way, we close the gap between the school-home, educator-parent in order to strengthen the emotional, cognitive and affective development of the students.

Which dimension of the TPrize Challenge does your solution most closely address?
  • Promote the assessment and recognition of skills developed outside the formal educational system
Explain how the problem you are addressing, the solution you have designed, and the population you are serving align with the TPrize Challenge.

Minkedu is aligned with the TPrize Challenge under the objective of strengthening and supporting the homeschooler (parents) and classroom (teachers) with teaching and learning methodologies, tools and resources that help develop future skills for students. We are also aligned with the dimension Design, create and implement new educational or training models for educators and students that guarantee access to quality education in environments with low connectivity, mainly from the work of the educator at home and in the classroom.

In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Cochabamba, Bolivia
What is your solution’s stage of development?
  • Growth: An organization with an established product, service, or business model rolled out in one or, ideally, several communities, which is poised for further growth.
Explain why you selected this stage of development for your solution.

Minkedu has more than 7,200 users. We work at the Bolivian level and managed to benefit, under our educational social impact model, more than 2,650 educators (parents and teachers) in rural and peri-urban areas. We are currently operating in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Colombia and our growth phase is aimed at scaling our educational social impact to strengthen the role of the educator in the home and classroom, connecting multiple teaching-learning experiences and first-level training adapted to each educational reality.

Who is the Team Lead for your solution?
Andrés Quisbert
More About Your Solution
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Partnership & Prize Funding Opportunities
Solution Team:
Andres Quisbert
Andres Quisbert
CEO & Co-Founder
Janeth  Mendoza Santillan
Janeth Mendoza Santillan
COO & Co-founder