Generation Start-up: Jordan’s Abwaab provides online learning to students amid lockdown – The National

Generation Start-up: Jordan’s Abwaab provides online learning to students amid lockdown – The National

Generation Start-up: Jordan's Abwaab provides online learning to students amid lockdown. Ed-Tech start-up contracted by government to offer online secondary school lessons as coronavirus changes learning dynamics. As the coronavirus pandemic batters the global economy, hammers industries from manufacturing to aerospace and roils markets, the team behind education technology (Ed-Tech) start up Abwaab has never been busier.. The number of students affected by school and university closures in 138 countries has nearly quadrupled to 1.37 billion, about 80 per cent of the world's student population, according to a March 24 report by Unesco .. As the world's fourth most spoken language, Arabic comprises only 3 per cent of online content.. "It was crazy," says Mr Tabbaa, a former Uber executive.. Other online education platforms providing content for the initiative include Jordan's Edraak and Jo Academy.. The idea behind the current free service is to build awareness of its products and foster a following so it can return to its paid model once the virus is contained.. The start-up raised $2.4 million (Dh8.81m) in a funding round that closed in January from investors led by Jordan's Adam Tech Ventures, which it will invest in developing content and harnessing artificial intelligence..