Can Digital Learning Reach Ethiopia’s Out-of-School Youth?

<p>For young people outside the formal education system, returning to learning is rarely as simple as going back to school. Distance, displacement, work, cost, and limited access to institutions can all create barriers that conventional education systems struggle to overcome. Digital learning could offer another route, but only if it is designed around the realities of the young people it is meant to reach.</p><p>The August edition of EdTech Mondays Ethiopia will examine how technology can help reconnect out-of-school youth with education, skills development, and eventually the labor market. The discussion will look beyond connectivity and access to consider what makes digital learning relevant, flexible, and useful for young people whose educational journeys have been disrupted.</p><p>A particular focus will be on young people who face additional barriers, including refugees and those displaced from formal schooling. For these learners, a one-size-fits-all digital platform may be of limited use.