The Project Learning Institute is a professional development program that trains teachers on how to integrate technology, project learning, and 21st century skills development into their classroom curricula. The Oracle Education Foundation (OEF), recently, reportedly, held a Project Learning Institute for more than 100 teachers from the First Lady Suzanne Mubarak's 'Developing Schools' Initiative at the Mubarak City Training Development Centre in Cairo. OEF's online learning platform, ThinkQuest, is being used by the course to showcase exceptional project-learning examples and help teachers produce projects as a part of their training experience.
Participating teachers, had already done a six weeks of online preparation prior to attending the live training event in Cairo and represented districts in Cairo, El Salam, Al Marg, Al Zaitoun, and Giza. In addition to benefiting teachers and students within the “Developing Schools” Initiative, the Project Learning Institute supports Egypt's Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) and Ministry of Education (MOE) in their objective to adopt project learning in classrooms across the country.
