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economy. The salient points are: EDLP is a flagship project of the Ministry
of Education, Tertiary education, science
1. The programme was based on six
pillars of the reform i.e. Curricular and technology (MOETEST), Mauritius
Change, Innovative Pedagogies, as a part of the innovative measure of
Assessment, Continuous NYCBE. The main aim of this program
Professional Development, is to move from traditional classrooms
Conductive Learning Environment, to 21st century digital classrooms. The
and System Governance and new era of personalized digital learning
Accountability. started in Mauritius through the EDLP
Project. The project was rolled out in the
2. It covers the new education year 2017-18 as a part of the bilateral
structure in detail including Primary relationship between Mauritius and
education from Grade 1 to 6 and Indian Government.
Secondary School from Grade 7 to
9. The project began with commissioning
of high definition projectors in
3. There are three curriculum stages, classroom, portable student device i.e.
each representing a block of three Tablet, Specialized charging card, Digital
years: Foundation Stage (Grades Content for all students in Grade I and
1, 2 3), the Consolidation Stage Grade II (EDLP, 2019). Subsequent on
(Grades 4, 5 6), and the Orientation receiving positive feedback the project
Stage (Grades 7, 8, 9). was progressively extended to d Grade
IV in 2019-20. The government has plans
The NYCBE will ensure that all youth to cover Grade V and VI in coming years.
reach at least basic skills levels as Hence, each student will be empowered
per the international benchmark by with student device i.e. Tablet as a part
2030. To achieve this desired goal, of personalized digital learning in all 277
the government rolled national level primary schools of Mauritius. This will
personalized learning initiatives in result in ICT penetration to all students
Primary education. (100 percent) in primary schools. The
growth can be summarized as given in
4. Early Digital Learning Program Fig-2.
(EDLP)
Fig-2: Growth of personalized learning in Primary Schools

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