Manzil-e-Maqsood, is the founder and CEO of Oxbridge Innovative Solutions.
She has an MPhil in Education Research from the University of Cambridge, and has also been affiliated with Oxford University’s Center for Educational Assessment. Manzil joined the academia in 2004 and helped establish R&D centers in collaborations with industry to commercialize innovative ideas in education. She is an Assistant Professor at SEECS-NUST, and is part of the core faculty member of the graduate program titled Masters in Innovative Technologies in Education, which focuses on disrupting the educational landscape of Pakistan through the innovative use of ubiquitous technologies.
Manzil is interested in initiating projects for bottom of pyramid communities for spread of education in a more innovative manner. She is interested in solutions for women empowerment both in education and clean energy sectors, and is currently working with young women from impoverished areas to learn to teach girls in their communities.
She leads a project called ‘Chotay Sciencedan’ initially funded by UK Aid Ilm Ideas Education Innovation Program, and currently by Research Directorate NUST. Chotay Sciencedan is an interactive, gamified, application that aims to deliver and assess grade 5 science concepts in an immersive, constructive environment. To-date this application has been deployed in 5 public schools in low socioeconomic locations of Islamabad.
Chotay Sciencedan is an interative learning and assessment application for Grade 5 science curriculum at Saya Charity School F-12, The Educators G-11 and Royal International School G-11, Islamabad.
Manzil has also launched an initiative called Makerspace Islamabad that aims to provide a constructionist, highly immersive, and hands-on environment to young children so as to foster deeper level understanding of STEM based subjects inspired by daily, real life problems. Two summer camps were launched in Summer this year, and schools have started adopting STEM intensive education and working with Manzil to embed it in their curriculum.
Oxbridge Innovative Solutions aims at providing creative and practical solutions to problems areas in diversified fields in Pakistan.
Some of our core expertise lies in primary and secondary education, educational software development, ICT4D, social development through information and communication technologies, women empowerment in rural and urban slums, renewable energy, environment, sustainable development, and capacity development of teachers.
Their vision is to improve the socio-economic conditions of less privileged masses, and enable them to become active contributors towards the development of Pakistan.
They are working towards improving the standard of science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) subjects in Pakistan by providing students with the necessary hands-on experience while never leaving the confines of the national curriculum.
Their vision is to incorporate STEAM intensive curriculum in primary and secondary schools of Pakistan. The STEAM intensive curriculum comprises of extensive hands-on, constructionist, immersive sessions suited to the learning capability and progress of an individual student.
Science Box
Teachers Assessment Portal
source: http://oxbridgeinnovatives.com
