Educate!
Design Academy
About the Educate! Design Academy
Education design is a lifelong learning journey. To support designers for youth and teachers in East Africa, Educate! has developed the blended Design Academy. Based on close to ten years of experience and contemporary learning theory, the Design Academy will help you:
- Develop your understanding of priority skills for youth and educators in Africa
- Apply design principles for skills-based design
- Strengthen core design competences
The impact of skills-based design
Educate!'s vision is to transform education in Africa to teach youth to solve poverty for themselves and their communities. Educate!’s solution is a relevant, skills-based model of education that leads to improved livelihoods for youth through formal employment or business ownership, increased business and job creation, improved community participation, and improved 21st century and business/employability skills. We aim to create impact across all levels of education systems by implementing our model directly in schools, advising governments on national education policy and curriculum reform, and building capacity among teachers to implement government reforms.
And it works! Educate! has been working in East Africa for over ten years directly impacting over 68,000 young people who have carried on the positive change through leadership and entrepreneurship. Educate! graduates for example are 123% more likely to launch a community project than other youth.
Find out how to design for positive impact on youth in this Design Academy!
Becoming a participant of the Design Academy
Educate! welcomes all designers to participate in the Design Academy. This website functions as a knowledge repository that designers can utilize to meet their design needs. Complementary to this website are several on- and offline training interventions, such as:
- Google Groups
- Professional development plans for Educate! designers
- Design Bootcamps / training on location
- Coaching
Contact the course managers on designacademy@experienceeducate.org
Components of Design Academy
Design Academy includes:
- Overview of E! Program Models in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda & Design Competencies (in progress)
- Phase 1 as an orientation for all new designers in E!
- Phase 2 as an advanced course for E! designers
- Design Process Bootcamp
Enrolling in Design Academy
- For new designers: Your line manager will provide details and connect you to a Design Academy facilitator
- For other E! staff interested in a few modules: contact designacademy@experienceeducate.org and share which modules you'd like to undertake.
Navigating Design Principles Course
-Click on the Design Principle itself to see the overview of the principle's core concepts. Then click on the sub-pages underneath each principle.
-Complete all the assessments for each Design Principle.