DASARAN

DASARAN (which means “classroom” in the Armenian language) is a simple-to-use cloud-based Educational Development System that provides transparent and innovative performance management and data analysis services combined with interactive learning content and communication channels for school, students, parents, teachers, administrators, and policymakers.

The platform helps build infrastructural capacity through low-cost, yet high-quality innovative technologies for more efficient educational solutions that address UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In line with the world’s best practices, DASARAN disrupts the entire public education ecosystem by helping meet educational-technological development goals, advancing evidence-based decision-making, improving student performance, and augmenting teacher capacity.

The platform’s impact is achieved through some major components:

• Distance-Learning Toolset allowing teachers to create online courses in the subjects of their instruction and deliver the courses directly to their class students. Furthermore, the Distance-Learning Toolset integrates a Knowledge-Assessment Mechanism, through which teachers can quickly add quizzes to the courses and assess their students’ knowledge of the particular subject areas and topics.
• A learning management system that combines classroom management, journals to help track assignments and homework, student performance statistics, etc., provides insights to all education stakeholders and promotes transparency in public schools. The system helps schools set standards and establish routines (such as annual reports, yearly school report cards, etc.) to further build their capacity, sustainability, and withstand changes in school administration and political priorities.
• A data analytics tool for educational policy-making allows for effective monitoring of schools and a more accurate measurement of education indicators across a country. The tool provides real-time statistical data and comparative analysis on school management efficiency, school enrolment, and student performance using various indicators. This helps policymakers to analyze educational conditions and to assess the different diagnostic information to bring quality education to every student.
• Customized e-learning and gamified education approach, encompassing a wide knowledge base that covers a wide range of topics as disaster risk reduction, environmental protection, energy conservation, human rights, constitutional rights, intercultural learning, social inclusion, tolerance among others. This approach allows DASARAN not just to teach students a set of knowledge and information, but to shape their behavioral patterns as civil citizens.