Incentives for Peer Learning

Status: Closed
Prize: $50
Entries Received: 4
Winner: asm805

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Contest Brief

Do you have creative ideas on how young learners also can help their friends gain useful skills?

This contest invites you to propose 10 innovative types of non monetary awards that can be earned by kids in poor areas who self-learn reading and math, and who then help their friends also gain these skills.

The XPrize Foundation’s new Global Learning initiative intends to create free apps for self-learning that students around the world will be able to use on mobile phones and tablets. (Background is at http://globallearningxprize.org )

Creating such apps is now the key focus for the Global Learning Initiative.

As an advisor to the initiative, however, I am also suggesting that the skill gains may increase if there are rewards that kids can earn in the participating demonstration project communities.

For example, a kid who uploads a short video clip confirming that she or he can read a randomly-generated text passage might earn a certain level of free cell phone minutes for family and friends, upon reaching that level of skill.

Students in a rural school in Sri Lanka did some research and produced several new ideas for rewarding peer learning success (see attached file below).

What are your ideas on other kinds of low cost (non-monetary) rewards that can be linked to the digitally recorded progress of learners? Please submit your list of 10 ideas with a title for each idea, a 2-3 sentence description of why it will be appealing to young learners (and their friends/families), and a link to a site showing how it can be affordably delivered to peer learning circles.

This is the first of a series of microcontests that I plan to post in support of the new XPrize for Global Learning. All freelancers who respond to this contest will receive updates and invitations to participate in ensuing ones as well.

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“Thoroughly enjoyed receiving such practical and creative ideas from asm805! ”

openworlder, United States.

Public Clarification Board

nkrishnamoorthi
- 11 years ago
Congrats winners, and good luck with your project openworlder.
- 11 years ago
Contest Holder
- 11 years ago
This has been a very hard contest to judge – there were many excellent ideas submitted, and four entrants were especially outstanding in my view and that of other XPrize Global Learning reviewers. Given this, I have decided to award four top prizes rather than just a single one. The next issue is for me to modify the Freelancer.com award settings to make four disbursements happen – I will have an update on this tomorrow. Meanwhile, congratulations to asm805, JanetKozak, DiligenceAlways, and Muznamlk!
- 11 years ago
1. JanetKozak
  - 11 years ago
  Yay! Thank you! I'm definitely going to be following your contests here on freelancer and the project progress online. It's an amazing initiative and I think it's going to help SO many kids.
  
  I recently moved here to Pakistan from the USA and it's been an eye opening experience to see how truly limited some children and families are in their opportunities for growth and learning merely because of internal and external economic restrictions and oppressions. I'm looking forward to following the progress of this learning initiative to see the final outcomes.
  - 11 years ago
2. muznamlk
  - 11 years ago
  Thankyou:) I live in Pakisan and I have done a lot of volunteer work to teach underprivileged students here so I do have an idea how to motivate kids a little. This effort of XPrize Global Learning is commendable!
  - 11 years ago
Contest Holder
- 11 years ago
All, a quick update – a colleague in the XPrize Global Learning initiative, who is among the invited reviewers, has requested a small extension in the review period to the ideas a good review. Given this, I expect to be able to award the contest prize Monday evening (Eastern US time). Appreciate your patience! A lot of excellent ideas have been proposed.
- 11 years ago
1. JanetKozak
  - 11 years ago
  Thank you for the updates! On pins and needles here. :)
  - 11 years ago
Contest Holder
- 11 years ago
Nearing the decision – by Sunday evening (Eastern US) I should have feedback from invited reviewers and will be glad to post the winner!
- 11 years ago
Contest Holder
- 11 years ago
All, many thanks for your entries! I am now preparing a review process that includes inputs by colleagues in the Global Learning XPRIZE. I should be able to announce the contest winner by the end of this week – again, appreciate all of the excellent thinking that has gone into your suggestions.
- 11 years ago
Contest Holder
- 11 years ago
Glad to see the contest entries coming in! A number of the uploaded documents have fully met the following criteria of listing 10 ideas for non-monetary incentives. Yet several others have only one or two ideas with their submission.

For those who uploaded a partial response, please note that the competition is looking for the following:

>>Please submit your list of 10 ideas with:

- a title for each idea
- a 2-3 sentence description of why it will be appealing to young learners (and their friends/families), and
- a link to a site showing how it can be affordably delivered to peer learning circles.

Thanks! Please post any questions on this or other aspects of the contest in the public board here.

For those who
- 11 years ago
1. JanetKozak
  - 11 years ago
  Hello Mr. Fraizer,
  
  Did you get a chance to review my submission? I would appreciate any feedback or thoughts on the entry so I can make any changes you may need in these last few hours. I know my approach was unconventional, but I hope it meets the broader learning objectives of the contest and XPrize and made my reasons for choosing the incentives I did and their appeal to young learners clear to you. Thank you for your time and consideration of my entry.
  
  ~Janet~
  - 11 years ago
JanetKozak
- 11 years ago
Hello Mr. Fraizer,

I've submitted the cover letter of my entry to this contest as a screenshot and would like to send you the remainder of the Word document, unfortunately when I went to submit is seems that Word documents are unsupported uploads. Please send me a private message so I can get you the full six page proposal. Thank you!

~Janet~
- 11 years ago
nkrishnamoorthi
- 11 years ago
Dear contest holder

Can you please click on my submission and provide me feedback.

What ideas you liked and why?
What ideas you did not like and why?

Please do so as it will give me the necessary direction. I am willing to provide more ideas.

Thank you for the opportunity
Nkrishnamoorthi.
- 11 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 11 years ago
  nkrishnamoorthi, many thanks for your entry – and being an early mover in the contest! All of the entries submitted so far have been responsive to the intent of this contest.
  
  Appreciate everyone's careful reading of the scope of this contest, as well as the background on the larger Global Learning XPrize (http://is.gd/globallearning).
  - 11 years ago
msridge
- 11 years ago
Hi!
It's nice to know that there are groups of IT people who are willing to help alleviate the lives of the children in places like Africa. I've been in one of the African countries in the past years and true to what we always hear and see on TV, these kids are less fortunate ones. I feel happy seeing your contest. I’m joining not for the $ I would get but to maybe contribute some ideas for the benefit of the African children.
- 11 years ago
Contest Holder
- 11 years ago
Janet, the focus of the Global Learning XPrize is on self-learners who are aged 2-5. The initial plan is to offer the rewards in struggling African communities. Hope that helps in preparing your list(s) of 10!
- 11 years ago
1. JanetKozak
  - 11 years ago
  It does! Thank you.
  - 11 years ago
Contest Holder
- 11 years ago
Yaredibsa, the villages that pilot the different self-learning apps will be located in Africa, in places chosen by the software development teams. Hope you'll check all of the information on the Global Learning XPrize at http://is.gd/globallearning – and then enter this contest in the way described!
- 11 years ago
yaredibsa
- 11 years ago
Let me tell you one of my best idea: Please tell me where the young learners' friends are found. And then I will tell you everything about how to teach them online.
- 11 years ago
yaredibsa
- 11 years ago
YES I HAVE CREATIVE IDEAS TO HELP YOUNG LEARNERS CAN HELP THEIR FRIENDS. BUT IT DEPENDS ON WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DISCUSS.
- 11 years ago
Contest Holder
- 11 years ago
A question has came up as to how the best list will be chosen for the $50 prize. I am planning to select three lists as semifinalists for the award, and will invite other XPrize Vanguard team members to help me in choosing the finalist from among these.
- 11 years ago
Contest Holder
- 11 years ago
I'm not sure whether Freelancer.com contests allow the awarding of bonuses, but I would certainly be ready to provide a bonus if the winner of this microcontest also offers a section of 5-10 further peer learning rewards that can appeal to kids in the 6 - 14 age range!
- 11 years ago
JanetKozak
- 11 years ago
Another question: If we have more than 10 incentive/reward ideas would you prefer that we submit all of the ideas as one contest entry or as multiple contest entries of 10 each?
- 11 years ago
JanetKozak
- 11 years ago
Hello! This sounds like a great initiative and a fun contest, I'm definitely going to participate. Could you tell us a bit more about the age range of the children and what area(s) of the world they are living in? That additional information will help us brainstorm the most applicable low-cost incentives that are available in their region(s). Thank you!
- 11 years ago