Intel Signs MoU with Allama Iqbal Open University

Intel Pakistan, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) to promote integration of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the education environment via various Intel® Teach Program offerings that focus on teacher training, curriculum development and technology adoption.

The enhanced Intel® Teach Program portfolio is designed to enable teachers to introduce, expand and support 21st century learning with a project-based approach in the classroom. Intel Teach will use the “Train the Trainer” model to provide both face-to-face and online instruction to help teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. Teachers will be able to create lesson plans that meet local and national education goals and standards.

Intel Pakistan will work with the initial group of teachers to help them become Intel Teach trainers themselves. These trainers will be responsible for sharing their newly acquired skills with other teachers in their jurisdiction. To ensure that the program’s curriculum maintains relevancy and reflects lessons learned from feedback and research, Intel Pakistan will regularly provide updated material to the Intel Teach trainers and monitor quality through on-site visits. Certificates to Master and Participant teachers will be provided through the AIOU platform as well.

Speaking at the occasion, Asma Aziz, PR Manager Intel Pakistan said, “More than 288,591 teachers have been trained on the curriculum since the program’s inception, and have reached more than 70 districts and cities in the country.”

“These teachers work as agents of change and belong to a new genre of techno savvy teachers who are better equipped to prepare their students to face the challenges of the 21st century workforce. Our partnership with AIOU today promises to provide teachers with the skills and resources they need to bring about that change,” Asma said. “Our objective is that trainee teachers receive hands-on experience with technology aided teaching methodologies”.

AIOU is the first Open University in Pakistan, and is a unique institution because of its philosophy, system, approach, functions and overall structure. The University with its main campus at Islamabad and network of 36 regional centers spread all over the country is providing education to its students all over Pakistan and in the Middle East. So far, out of 36 regional centers concurrent trainings for Master Trainers of AIOU have been conducted at Multan, Sahiwal, Faisalabad, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Peshawar, Abbottabad, Quetta and Karachi by Intel Education Senior Trainers and these trainings are being followed by Participant Teacher trainings these days.