Qophii

qophii is developing innovative educational software to enable tablets to assist teachers of large multi-grade classes, provide each child with activities targeting their specific level and abilities, afford library and it resources, support and integrate disabled children, facilitate collaboration between schools, improve education management and produce data for targeted interventions, such as child support in emergencies. demand for education in rural ethiopia far outstrips the education system's capacity, so class sizes are huge and multi-grade, teachers are impossibly stretched, children learn little and most drop out, and children with difficulties or special needs are excluded. a pioneering trial has shown that given the chance, rural ethiopian children with no formal education or literacy skills can use tablet computers (like ipads) to teach themselves even without a teacher. tablet computers are under $40 and getting ever cheaper and more capable, are uniquely intuitive for ch