Online learning

Online Learning

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Online learning
Online and blended learning tools and platforms
SectorMost major industry classification systems use sources of revenue as their basis for classifying companies into specific sectors, subsectors and industries. In order to group like companies based on their sustainability-related risks and opportunities, SASB created the Sustainable Industry Classification System® (SICS®) and the classification of sectors, subsectors and industries in the SDG Investor Platform is based on SICS.
Education
Education Technology
Business Model Description

Develop and operate online and blended learning tools and platforms

Expected Impact

Facilitate access of students to education during remote learning and in remote areas

Indicative ReturnDescribes the rate of growth an investment is expected to generate within the IOA. The indicative return is identified for the IOA by establishing its Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Return of Investment (ROI) or Gross Profit Margin (GPM).
10% - 15% (in IRR)
Investment TimeframeDescribes the time period in which the IOA will pay-back the invested resources. The estimate is based on asset expected lifetime as the IOA will start generating accumulated positive cash-flows.
Short Term (0–5 years)
Market SizeDescribes the value of potential addressable market of the IOA. The market size is identified for the IOA by establishing the value in USD, identifying the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) or providing a numeric unit critical to the IOA.
2.37 million learners impacted due to school closures
Direct ImpactDescribes the primary SDG(s) the IOA addresses.
Quality Education (SDG 4)
Indirect ImpactDescribes the secondary SDG(s) the IOA addresses.
Decent Work and Economic Growth (SDG 8)
Sector Sources
  • 1) Sustainable Development Report 2019. 2) Department of Statistics, 2020, Unemployment Rate (http://dosweb.dos.gov.jo/19-0-the-unemployment-rate-during-the-second-quarter-of-2020/) 3) Ministry of Education, 2018, Education Strategic Plan 2018 – 2022. 4) Human Rights Watch,2017, Jordan: Secondary School Gap for Syrian Refugee Kids. 5) Prime Ministry of Jordan. Official Reports. (2020). Available online at: http://www.pm.gov.jo/category/7603/?????.html 6) Ministry of Education, Education Strategic Plan 2018-2022. 6a) Sarayreh, Raghad (2020). Using blended learning during COVID-19: The perceptions of school teachers in Jordan. Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences. Volume 15. 6b) USAID (2020). Final Report: USAID/Jordan Gender Analysis and Assessment, page 8.
  • 11) See Abwaab, an online platform that has expanded successfully to Palestine and Egypt (https://abwaab.me/) 12) Jordan's High-Stakes Education Testing Challenges During COVID-19 (https://www.ictworks.org/jordan-high-stakes-educational-testing-covid-19/#.X5bzKHVS-M8) 13) Mohammad Audah, et al. (2020). COVID-19 and digital learning preparedness in Jordan. The World Bank Group.
IOA Sources