Siyavula is a social enterprise built on community, openness and technology,working to make high quality education accessible to every learner and teacher in South Africa. Presentation by Mark Horner, Director of Siyavula, at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s OER Grantees Meeting 2014.

3. CommunityCommunity
Technology
Technology
Openness
Openness
Siyavula is a social enterprise
Siyavula is a social enterprise built on
community, openness and technology,
working to make high quality education
accessible to every learner and teacher in
South Africa.

4. What we have done

5. Technology enables and enriches
Launched Jan 2012
500,000 visitors p.m.
Videos
Simulations
Intelligent Practice
Launched Sep 2013
ePubs
Comics
Videos
Simulations

7. Catalogue of Open Titles
1. Pipelines exist
2. Proven the model for production
3. MOA in place
4. Cost savings of at least 70%

8. 4 implementation phases, 3 years, 42 titles
Slate of open titles

9. 4 implementation phases, 3 years, 42 titles
Slate of open titles

10. 4 implementation phases, 3 years, 42 titles
Slate of open titles

11. Intelligent Practice
1. The learner experience
2. The teacher experience
3. Data-driven management

12. Intelligent Practice:
The learner experience
Unlimited exercises
at the appropriate level of difficulty
with immediate, detailed feedback
and long term progress tracking

13. Track progress on your dashboard

14. Intelligent Practice:
The teacher experience
Technology-assisted formative assessment
with on-demand class reports
summarising effort, mastery, speed
and problem areas

15. Class reports: Mastery and speed

16. Intelligent Practice report 2013
Usage statistics
2013:
● 120 schools using the service
● 750 teachers
● 1,300 classes
● 18,250 school learners
● 35,750 individual users
● 1,212,000 exercises completed
Number of templates available on service:
● Start of school 2013: 725
● Start of school 2014: 1,925

17. Intelligent Practice:
Data-driven management
A passive monitoring system that tracks
progress through CAPS,
learners' level of effort,
learners' level of mastery
and problem areas
summarised at class, school, district levels

18. Thank you!
Mark Horner
mark@siyavula.com
@marknewlyn
http://www.markhorner.net

19. Unlimited exercises, immediate marking

20. Detailed explanations

21. Complex answers
(not just multiple choice)

22. Class reports: Effort

23. Class reports: Problem areas

24. Intelligent Practice Marketing Material

25. Intelligent Practice report 2013: Effort

26. Intelligent Practice report 2013: Mastery

27. Intelligent Practice Developments
1. School Management
System
2. Voucher System
3. Performance Updates
4. Mastery & Algorithm
1. 2 150+ templates
2. CAPS-alignment
3. Mathematics 8 & 9
4. Off-line Server