Delhi schools pursue the NEP

Delhi schools pursue the NEP

NEW DELHI, India — World Mosaic closed 2024 visiting leading Delhi school communities, preparing detailed proposals for Rev Pathways, the program through which senior students can earn Australian Qualifications Framework certificates and diplomas at their own school in India. Interest of this kind reflects a wider shift in Indian school education: ambitious school leaders seeking credible international learning pathways that keep students at home, with their families and their trusted teachers, while opening doors to universities in Australia and beyond.

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Building a Dili team

DILI, Timor-Leste — World Mosaic welcomed two new Dili-based specialists to the team this year: Januario Da Costa, software developer, and Lukito Freitas, graphic designer. Both now support the EdTech for Early Learning project, with Januario leading local application development and Lukito producing the artwork that gives the resources their unmistakably Timorese character. Hiring in-country is a deliberate choice, not a convenience. Timorese children see their own world reflected in their learning because Timorese hands drew it. The project builds…

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A first for teachers in India

NEW DELHI, India — World Mosaic advanced plans this month for a structured professional development service to accompany Rev School in Indian schools, so that platform adoption is always matched by teacher capability. The model centres on an intensive onboarding program, recognising that the best educational technology succeeds only when teachers are confident, supported and professionally recognised. Delivery models were developed with partner schools in view for the 2025 academic year. Further details: Rev School for systems

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Early learning in the home language

DILI, Timor-Leste — The EdTech for Early Learning (ETEL) project reached an end-of-phase milestone this month, with a growing library of playful Tetun-language learning activities delivered across classroom and home-learning formats, reviewed with the project’s community development partner, Mary Mackillop Today and Ministry of Education stakeholders. The team also collaborated with a Tokodede translator, extending the program into a second Timorese language. Trans-language design is not an afterthought; it is the starting point, because young children first learn best in…

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Learning comes home

DILI, Timor-Leste — Development advanced this month on the Timor Home App, a home-learning companion built by World Mosaic for the EdTech for Early Learning project with its community development partner, Mary MacKillop Today. The app brings playful, Tetun-language early learning activities to families on ordinary Android devices, designed for real-world connectivity conditions, with no individual child screen time. Every activity is grounded in the daily life of Timorese children, from the microlet that carries them to town to the…

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In the field, Timor-Leste

DILI, Timor-Leste — World Mosaic, as Mary MacKillop Today’s early learning and technology design partner, delivered support to scale early childhood education across Timor-Leste, one of the world’s youngest nations. Field engagement with preschool educators, families and Ministry of Education stakeholders is shaping project and learning resource  design decision, from the Tetun-first language approach to activities that work on the devices and connectivity families actually have. It is Human Centred Design in its most literal sense: on the ground, listening…

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Early learning, in Tetun

DILI, Timor-Leste — World Mosaic’s local and international digital designers and illustrators spent June developing a series of culturally-rich Tetun-language early learning resources for Timor-Leste, integrating literacy, numeracy and identity to a transport theme, seeing the world through the child’s eyes. The materials embody the World Mosaic approach to early learning: visual, playful and unmistakably local, designed so that a child’s first learning experiences speak the language of home. Field engagement in Dili follows in July.

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Focus on wellbeing

LONDON, England — Student wellbeing took centre stage as World Mosaic supported a London wellbeing Community of Practice session for school staff and leaders, delivered with Skodel. The session explored data-informed wellbeing practice, helping educators recognise, respond to and design for the emotional lives of their students and staff. Wellbeing is woven through everything World Mosaic designs, builds, and reviews, grounded in Human Centred Design. Great learning starts with learners and teachers who feel safe and know they belong. Further…

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Rethinking professional development for actuaries

SYDNEY, Australia — World Mosaic was engaged to conduct a high-level review of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for the Actuaries Institute, Australia’s peak professional body for the actuarial profession. The review applied World Mosaic’s Human Centred Design lens: starting with the learner, understanding the ecosystem and its stakeholders, then designing experiences that genuinely lift capability. Advisory work of this kind is a natural part of the World Mosaic portfolio, helping education agencies, school systems and professional bodies design and uplift…

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Making the case for Australian edtech

CANBERRA, Australia — As a longstanding member of EduGrowth, Australia’s national edtech industry body, World Mosaic continued its advocacy for the value of Australian education innovation this month, including engagement with members of parliament on the sector’s contribution to education exports and to learners at home. Australian edtech is a quiet national strength: research-informed, safety-conscious and increasingly sought after across the Asia-Pacific. World Mosaic’s programs and platforms — EdTech for Early Learning, Rev School and Rev Pathways — are examples…

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