Madrasa, the largest open digital educational platform in the Arab world, www.madrasa.org, announced a new package of creative educational stories that it will implement over the next eight months in cooperation with writers, Arab and international publishing houses, technical experts, creators and educators of all disciplines to add them to the interesting educational content it provides. Free within the reach of all Arab students around the world.
The “Madrasa” platform, the electronic platform that provides various educational materials for all levels of education from kindergarten to the secondary stage in Arabic within the reach of students wherever they are, launches a new set of creative educational stories for students under the age of 14 through the “School Stories” page and application. and for children www.stories.madrasa.org .
And 200 new illustrated stories will be added before the end of this year to the 200 stories currently available on the school platform within the Arabic language track, and 6000 educational lessons provided by the platform to learners in the Arabic language in the subjects of mathematics, general sciences, chemistry, biology, physics, Arabic language, and future sciences for children.
Million views
The diverse educational content that is open for free on the “school platform” since its launch until now has recorded more than 63 million views from around the world, and the views were topped by platform subscribers from Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Morocco, Iraq, Jordan, Yemen and Tunisia , and Palestine.
As for the first phase of “Madrasa Stories”, it has so far recorded more than 5 million views from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and Jordan.
Partnerships with Arab institutions and international publishing houses
Dr. Walid Al Ali, director of the “Madrasa” e-learning project at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, said: “Since its inception, we have been keen on the “Madrasa” project to provide an open online educational platform in the Arabic language for all students of all educational levels, to offer them Reliable and useful knowledge-based Arabic digital content with advanced educational methods that use multimedia, and to enhance students’ interaction with information, and contribute, along with the education systems in our region, to preparing an empowered knowledge generation.”
He added: “The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, which is responsible for the Madrassa and School Stories platform project, engages creators, educators and experts from all over the Arab region and the world to design interesting educational lessons and stories that adopt modern educational methods that simplify information and help the student expand his or her awareness and knowledge and stimulate his scientific curiosity. It enhances its capabilities for self-learning and continuous, and in this context, we announced a new package of educational comics for children to enhance the connection with reading and intensify the programs and initiatives that encourage it.”
The new addition to “School Stories” by doubling the number of comic books supports efforts to build a distinguished civilized model in the field of reading and knowledge, consolidate the culture of reading in society, enrich the cultural environment, prepare a generation of future leaders armed with science and knowledge, and contribute to the creation of new and distinct initiatives, to revive Paying attention to reading and its concepts, and restoring its position, especially in the Arabic language.
Dr. confirmed. Al Ali, “Madrasa platform” cooperated with Arab and international publishing houses and writers who pioneered the short story aimed at children and young people, saying: “Madrasa platform” cooperates with a leading group of cultural institutions and publishing houses, including the Emirates Literature Foundation, the Arab Thought Foundation, and Austin Macaulay International House. Publishing, Yobok Publishing and Distribution, Mulhamoon Publishing and Distribution, and Double Oman Publishing and Distribution in the completion of 200 new educational illustrated stories that are completed using animation and montage techniques and focus on developing the skills of children and adolescents and enhancing their awareness and family and social interaction with their surroundings, and are added to the “school stories” stock of educational stories illustrated, which provides learners of the Arabic language with pleasure and benefit.
Cognitive and social skills
In the new phase, the “Madrasa Stories” platform provides illustrated stories on topics that develop ambition, stimulate self-development, organize time, set goals and persevere to achieve them, enhance awareness of the importance of natural resources and the need to protect the environment, adopt sustainable practices, and encourage cooperation with peers and communication with the community.
two classes
Madrassa’s 200 new storyboards fall into two categories. 100 animated stories and 2D and 3D video clips based on short stories for children and young adults, after coordination with their authors and publishers. Each storyboard is 4 to 6 minutes long, followed by 3 interactive multiple-choice questions.
While the other 100 illustrated stories depend on their presentation in a new way that combines animation and story presentation in cooperation with a specialized character who tells stories to children and interacts with them in an integrated production process that includes readings from the short stories on which they are based in addition to static or two- and three-dimensional animation. The story series is a group of community and cultural figures to address the target age group with the comics, and it will also be followed by interactive multiple-choice questions to test the extent of students’ awareness of the contents of those stories.
Goals
The Madrassa Platform is counting on the launch of a second phase of educational illustrated stories for children, “School Stories” on the great success it has achieved through educational lessons in enhancing and developing students’ reading, pronunciation and comprehension skills. With Arab books and publishing houses to shed light on the distinctive creative Arab skills on the one hand, and in commitment to its responsibility towards the Arabic language, and in order to enrich the global digital content of the Arabic language with distinctive high-quality content, while following the best means that provide useful and interesting content in the most appropriate way for students.
The Madrassa platform, as an electronic educational platform that includes distinguished educational content, aims to support the educational process and make it available free of charge to millions of Arab students so that they can access it anywhere, and contribute to changing the reality of education in the Arab world, raising the educational attainment of millions of Arab students, and opening up knowledge horizons. In addition to establishing the foundations of self-learning and systematic, without contradicting the role of the educational institution, while providing attractive and distinguished educational content, from the first stages of foundation to the secondary stage. The Madrassa platform seeks to contribute to preparing a new generation of qualified Arab researchers, scientists, innovators and inventors to address the most prominent development challenges, and to create scientifically qualified young Arab competencies, capable of modern technology, capable of leading the sectors of the knowledge economy and actively participating in future makers.
School
The Madrassa platform is one of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s global initiatives within the axis of spreading education and knowledge. The average number of educational lessons viewed through “Madrasa” is 15,000 lessons per day, and to date has more than 3 million subscribers from around the world.
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