Books in Underserved Languages

… results in Books in Underserved Languages.

Ustad Mobile
Readability for eXeLearning helps writers make decodable and levelled readers for print, mobile, and feature phone distribution.
Competition
Enabling Writers Prize
Amount Awarded
$12,000
Winner Status
Finalist
Unleash Kids
iLoominate allows a user to write books for beginning readers and publish them to a local digital library.
Competition
Enabling Writers Prize
Amount Awarded
$12,000
Winner Status
Finalist
John Snow, Inc
System enabling education officials to track book delivery throughout the system and enables parents, teachers, and local officials to receive an up-to-date information status of books.
Competition
Tracking & Tracing Books Prize
Amount Awarded
$100,000
Winner Status
Winner
Community Systems Foundation
OpenEMIS Logistics tracks the delivery of items to schools using a web interface, a mobile app and SMS technologies.
Competition
Tracking & Tracing Books Prize
Amount Awarded
$100,000
Winner Status
Winner
College of William & Mary
Sofware that enables teachers and students to read, write, and share books using a local digital library and a kid-friendly storytelling application.
Competition
Big Ideas@Berkeley 2014/15 Prize
Amount Awarded
$10,000
Winner Status
1st place,Winner
Monash University
Solar-powered reading device, equipped with WordSwitch technology, allowing diverse learners to navigate complex texts by switching unknown words
Competition
Big Ideas@Berkeley 2014/15 Prize
Amount Awarded
$8,500
Winner Status
2nd place,Winner
UC Berkeley
Using interactive voice response to allows older students to record short readings and micro-lesson plans, to assist children learning to read.
Competition
Big Ideas@Berkeley 2014/15 Prize
Amount Awarded
$7,500
Winner Status
3rd place,Winner
UC Berkeley
An ecosystem for collaborative, inquiry-based, leveled reading that merges task-based and storytelling approaches to increase reading comprehension in early-stage readers.
Competition
Big Ideas@Berkeley 2014/15 Prize
Amount Awarded
$2,000
Winner Status
Honorable Mention
Across
Equipping primary school teachers with solar-powered digital audio players to develop teachers’ skills and tutor students
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Africa Educational Trust
Increasing teacher to student contact hours, textbook availability, teacher training and teacher instruction
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
The Asia Foundation
Improving parent-school and parent-child relationships through the development of relevant reading materials for students and teaching aids for parents and educators
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Center for Civil Integration and Inter-Ethnic Relations
Improving first and second language reading skills of ethnic minority primary school children by supplying teachers and students with early grade, bilingual educational materials
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Drakkar Ltd.
Encouraging a culture of reading by providing Kinyarwanda storybooks, school-based mentors, and training to teachers
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
ECo-Development
Increasing the availability of culturally-responsive and context-relevant multilingual education materials in mother tongue languages for primary schools in Bandarban District, Bangladesh
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
École Supérieure d’Infotronique d’Haïti
Eliminate social barriers to learning by introducing interactive whiteboards into classrooms and creating digital content for learning in Creole
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
FHI 360
Developing instruction and learning materials in mother tongue languages and engaging family and community support in reading.
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Friends of Matènwa
Creating and distributing children-authored books in Creole to address the shortage of Creole reading materials and to foster a love of reading in children
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Georgia State University
Increasing the reading achievement levels of young learners through implementation of research-based, context-relevant literacy curricula and materials
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Lubuto Library Partners
Creating high-quality, mother-tongue materials through LubutoLiteracy, a low-cost digital platform that used local teachers to build lessons in seven languages
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Molteno Institute for Language and Literacy
Using easy, computer-based instruction for literacy learning in primary schools, Bridges to the Future - South Africa, to help students hear, identify and manipulate phonemes
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner