Avaya Enables Students to Continue to Learn Across Africa as 250 Million Children Lose Access to Physical Classrooms
July 23 2020 - 8:24AM
Business Wire
As many as 250 million children across Africa are currently
unable to access primary and secondary schools as a result of
COVID-19-related closures. Analysts have shared concerns that this
may create a lost generation of learners, causing many children to
leave school prematurely. Avaya (NYSE: AVYA), a global leader in
solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration,
is helping to stem this loss across the continent by enabling
students to stay on track with their studies using Avaya
Spaces™.
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South Africa, A teacher at Charter
College International School hosts a virtual class using Avaya
Spaces and the Avaya Collaboration Unit (Photo: AETOSWire)
Avaya Spaces, the all-in-one video collaboration app for the
digital workplace, changes the way works gets done. It helps bring
together distributed groups of people instantly with immersive work
spaces where they can message, meet, share content and manage tasks
from a browser or mobile device, and provides an easy, secure and
effective way to collaborate in the cloud.
Earlier this year, Avaya Spaces was offered for free to
educational institutions worldwide, giving them all the meeting and
team collaboration features they needed to keep students learning
and curriculums on track.
With Avaya Spaces, African schools such as Icon International
School in Ghana, Charter College in South Africa, and Waldorf
Woodlands in Kenya, have kept students safely engaged in their
education by using the app to create virtual classrooms that can be
accessed securely from anywhere on any device.
Analysts and researchers have noted the importance of
easy-to-use collaboration tools for education institutions to
maintain their connections with students, to support bright futures
in the face of today’s challenges. “Investing in training and
education is the best way to secure the future prosperity of the
African region,” said Adrian Ho, Practise Leader, Enterprise
Advanced Digital Services, Omdia. “The COVID-19 pandemic has made
its struggles more challenging. Harnessing technologies like Avaya
Spaces will help bridge the training and educational gaps of the
future workforce in Africa, allowing the region to be globally
competitive.”
“The crisis has forced educators across Africa and around the
world to adapt in order to avoid losing educational progress made
throughout the first half of the academic year,” said Nidal
Abou-Ltaif, President, Avaya International. “With our Avaya Spaces
offer, we have helped teachers and students continue to focus on
education, and we’re proud to have played a small part in seeing
off worries of a lost generation of learners.”
Icon International School, a leading Ghanaian institution that
caters to learners from multiple grade levels, is one such school
that has turned to technology to ensure the continued delivery of
education for its students. Initially getting by with various
freemium consumer apps, the school eventually put in place a
comprehensive remote learning program for students using Avaya
Spaces. The cloud-based video and collaboration app enables Icon to
seamlessly deliver a Montessori-style education across
geographies.
“With Avaya Spaces, teachers are able to attend to the
individual needs of every learner,” said Elizabeth Owusu-Bennoah,
Proprietress, Icon International School. “We have found the task
management features particularly effective, as they enable us to
plan, type out assignments, and follow up on them all within the
same app. Previously, there was a lot of copying and pasting
between various different apps, but now everything is held within
an easy-to-access online space. With Avaya Spaces, we are able to
create a rich and academically stimulating environment that
students can access from the safety and comfort of their own
homes.”
In South Africa, Charter College International High School moved
classrooms online with Avaya Spaces to enable continued learning
amid a shutdown of schools across the country. Working with Avaya,
Charter College deployed business licenses for its teachers and
staff – enough to support over 1,000 student users in virtual
classrooms.
“We join a growing number of educational institutions worldwide
who have had to temporarily cancel in-person classes, but we’ve
worked extremely quickly to move lessons online and ensure that our
students are still being provided with a top education,” said
Alison Dodge, Principal at Charter College International High
School.
Despite South African schools now being officially open, Charter
College will continue using Avaya Spaces to keep students and
teachers engaged and collaborating – and can maintain a continuity
of education if classes shut again.
“Our first priority is the safety of our students. During a
global pandemic, our goal is to provide continuity of their classes
while ensuring we’re following the most up-to-date health advice
from government bodies. Avaya Spaces has already proven
indispensable with its task management features, and it provides us
with a viable remote learning option if we ever need to temporarily
shut the school again,” Dodge added.
Additional Resources:
- VIDEO: Learn more about how Charter College International High
School is using Avaya Spaces to take their classrooms virtual.
- FACT SHEET: Avaya Spaces, a Cloud-Based Team Collaboration and
Meeting Tool
About Avaya
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everyday millions of those experiences are built by Avaya Holdings
Corp. (NYSE: AVYA). For over one hundred years, we’ve enabled
organizations around the globe to win – by creating intelligent
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committed to innovation, partnership, and a relentless focus on
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