CASTALIA’S PROGRAMMING EDUCATION PROJECT IN KENYA SELECTED AS ONE OF THE PROJECTS TO RECEIVE JICA’S SME OVERSEAS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT
WITH REGARDS TO THE LOCAL USE OF THE METHODS IN THE FOSTERING OF PROGRAMMING EDUCATORS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
“Survey on Entry-Level Code Learning in Elementary and Secondary Education” (SME Partnership Promotion)”, planned by Castalia Co. Ltd. (headquarters: Tokyo, Japan) to take place in the Republic of Kenya, has been selected by Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA) as a commissioned project of basic surveys to benefit from JICA’s Small and Medium Enterprises Overseas Business Development Support (the first of FY2017).
Small and Medium Enterprises Overseas Business Development Support is a proposal-based commission project that supports the overseas development of small and medium size enterprises in Japan.
“The project, through the surveys and demonstrations looking into the potentials of products and technologies by Japan’s small and medium enterprises in developing countries, aims to help those enterprises’ expansions abroad as well as to provide solutions to various problems that those countries have.” (Translated from JICA’s website)
The survey selected for commission focuses on the programming education for elementary and secondary education in the Republic of Kenya. Castalia will challenge the social problem of the qualitative and quantitative lack of programmers that are essential for the prevalence of ICT in Africa by offering classes using CodeEdu, a series for the fostering of programming human resources that uses both online learning and hands-on training, in order to create ICT human resources in Kenya.
CodeEdu is optimized for use on smartphones and allows you to study regardless of time and location. It features functions for the users to ask questions to the instructors as well as to share the learning experiences with their fellow learners, and the content and structure are made in an efficient way that even beginners who do not have programming education experiences can become instructors. In Japan, it has already been offered to Joetsu University of Education and the public.
The survey will start from around fall 2017.
JICA: First 68 Projects Selected by FY2017 Small and Medium Enterprises Overseas Business Development Support
(Japanese language only) https://www.jica.go.jp/press/2017/20170620_01.html
CodeEdu: Courses for Future Code Educators
https://www.codeedu.info/
“Survey on Entry-Level Code Learning in Elementary and Secondary Education” (SME Partnership Promotion)”, planned by Castalia Co. Ltd. (headquarters: Tokyo, Japan) to take place in the Republic of Kenya, has been selected by Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA) as a commissioned project of basic surveys to benefit from JICA’s Small and Medium Enterprises Overseas Business Development Support (the first of FY2017).
Small and Medium Enterprises Overseas Business Development Support is a proposal-based commission project that supports the overseas development of small and medium size enterprises in Japan.
“The project, through the surveys and demonstrations looking into the potentials of products and technologies by Japan’s small and medium enterprises in developing countries, aims to help those enterprises’ expansions abroad as well as to provide solutions to various problems that those countries have.” (Translated from JICA’s website)
The survey selected for commission focuses on the programming education for elementary and secondary education in the Republic of Kenya. Castalia will challenge the social problem of the qualitative and quantitative lack of programmers that are essential for the prevalence of ICT in Africa by offering classes using CodeEdu, a series for the fostering of programming human resources that uses both online learning and hands-on training, in order to create ICT human resources in Kenya.
CodeEdu is optimized for use on smartphones and allows you to study regardless of time and location. It features functions for the users to ask questions to the instructors as well as to share the learning experiences with their fellow learners, and the content and structure are made in an efficient way that even beginners who do not have programming education experiences can become instructors. In Japan, it has already been offered to Joetsu University of Education and the public.
The survey will start from around fall 2017.
JICA: First 68 Projects Selected by FY2017 Small and Medium Enterprises Overseas Business Development Support
(Japanese language only) https://www.jica.go.jp/press/2017/20170620_01.html
CodeEdu: Courses for Future Code Educators
https://www.codeedu.info/