Ministry Of Education, Culture And Higher Education Tender

Prequalification are invited for Consultancy for the digitalization of in-service teacher training contents or materials and upload onto the online platform and an Offline option on the Tablets. The prevalence of COVID-19 has greatly affected the global socio-economic aspect with Education sector being among the greatly affected sector following the closure of academic institutions to curb the spread and transmission of the virus in the school communities. However, few countries had alternative learning option to ensure learning continues but majority of the third world countries were caught off guard, thus, forcing learning to be discontinued since there was no alternative safe learning option available for the higher education institutions that utilized Zoom, MS Teams, Google Classroom/Meet etc. The Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education (MoECHE) and other implementing partners for the ESPIG prioritized other options for changing modality for the teacher training.However, the Federal Government of Somalia Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education (MoECHE) with the support of Global Partnership for Education (GPE) funded ESPIG with main focus of strengthening the quality of primary education by training teachers through in-service teacher training. Thus, ESPIG developed in-service teacher training modules and harmonized existing materials across the country. It has come into effect that tablets have been procured for blended teacher training. There is no doubt, however, that amongst all the available means of communication, digitalizing the content and uploading into tablets is preferred for teachers to access while at schools remotely. Teachers are central to quality and equitable education delivery in schools. It is therefore important that the government has focused its attention on enhancing their effectiveness and efficiency so that the right people are available and quality education is accessible to the learners. Teachers are the most important resource in today’s schools (OECD,2018). Furthermore, the National Curriculum requires effective teaching force that can use the curriculum materials to delivers quality teaching and learning. The objective of the consultancy is to digitalize and upload the developed teacher training course content or materials (syllabuses and the training modules or subject contents) into the web platform and on offline option on the tablets. This will include video preparation, recording, editing, and uploading of finalized in-service teacher training course resource materials that are aligned to the national curriculum. The consultant must ensure that the materials are user friendly through incorporation of audio, video, animations, and simulations). The specific objective of the consultancy is; ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD),