Skill2Skill is invited to the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town

Skill2Skill’s focus on leveraging social networks and its peer-to-peer learning platform for schools and universities is of great potential interest to help propagate knowledge in Africa.

Skill2Skill’s focus on leveraging social networks and its peer-to-peer learning platform for schools and universities is of great potential interest to help propagate knowledge in Africa.

Our platform is primarily meant to foster a collaborative environment that will allow students to work together and create their own content. It provides customization to local ideas, needs, interests and concerns, while creating a diverse and global “learning community”. It reflects a more personalized approach to learning, that responds to the specific skillet of a school, region, and/or community.

Skill2Skill addresses the challenge to offer a tool that helps to capture the tacit knowledge that exists within the student community to complement the formal educational system.

An environment that encourages collaboration between students is essential to help spread education and knowledge faster in Africa, as well as globally.

• It leverages differences between students’ knowledge and skills
• It gives a sense of belonging in the academic community
• It increases students’ self-esteem
• It increases group/team work skills
• It increases student retention rates
• It expands natural collaboration from the class nucleus to the entire school and to the entire community (students will learn from students in other classes, other schools, other communities)
• It broadens the traditional tutoring system to a peer2peer tutoring model
• It teaches students to be “active learners” and apply and share their knowledge