About the Organization
The Global Girl Project is an initiative dedicated to mobilizing socially-minded and community-driven young women from developing countries to become leaders. Their exchange and blended learning programs are designed to enrich skills-sets, generate support, and provide knowledge for young leaders to implement their initiatives within their communities.
In the midst of the pandemic in 2020, GGP faced a growing challenge: continuing meaningful engagement with disadvantaged and digitally excluded communities, despite the global restrictions on travel. Prior to this, GGP had built a model where girls from places such as Nepal, India, Brazil, Haiti, Afghanistan and more, could travel, meet, and learn from one another’s experiences in person, via global education and leadership summits.
To create courses where the girls, some of whom had hardly used the Internet before, could access content themselves and manage their own learning, would require a flexible and extensible system that could meet individual learning needs. Using Canvas Free For Teacher allowed GGP to take its first steps toward online and blended learning.
The facilitators in our partner countries find Canvas really easy to use, and I can quickly anticipate where they might need extra support.
Julia Lynch
Founder & CEO, Global Girl Project
Key Insights
GGP set out to create two different Canvas courses:
A blended learning course, where facilitators in countries from around the world could showcase content, and run classroom-based sessions around community leadership and event planning.
A self-paced, online offering for graduates of the blended learning course and GGP Alumni to discuss key issues for young women in developing countries, using a social learning model.
GGP used Canvas features (Announcements, course Sections, and Redirect Tool LTI) to centralize communication and help learners overcome language barriers.
By gathering participant and project information through Canvas Assignments, GGP was able to streamline data collection on its participants and their learning progress.
Canvas New Analytics will support ongoing monitoring of GGP’s activities, enabling them to offer evidence of impacts to potential partners. Previously, this would have required extensive surveying and manual data collection.
Canvas Discussions tool supports groups of learners in “continuing the conversation” beyond global summits.
Canvas Rich Content Editor allowed GGP to create an intuitive and accessible course homepage in a mobile optimized format for new digital learners.
Canvas enabled GGP to streamline workflow processes and support connections with beneficiaries at a time of significant growth.
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