The Ministry of Education (Mineduc) announced that the I learn online platform, which seeks to maintain the learning of students who are in quarantine and cannot attend face-to-face classes, will continue to work for free during 2021 from mobile devices, such as cell phones, smartphones and tablets.
The continuity of the application was achieved thanks to the negotiations of the Mineduc and the Subsecretariat of Telecommunications (Subtel) with various telecommunications companies, which undertook to maintain the free program for teachers, students and parents.
“The Aprendo en Línea platform, which was updated in 2021 and today has more and renewed pedagogical resources, has played a very important role in not interrupting learning. We thank the companies for their support so that the site can be used without charges by students and their teachers, ”said the Minister of Education, Raúl Figueroa.
The public-private agreement allowed the application to have an access that do not discount mobile data from the plans of postpaid users or register a balance for prepaid mobile broadband users.
To date, the portal has more than 19 million visits, which has made it the most popular website in the country in the area of education.
Aprendo en Línea has more than 80,000 digital pedagogical resources for students, parents, teachers and managers, aligned with the current curriculum and is always constantly updated. Among these, the Digital School Library stands out, which has 13 thousand copies to which 2 thousand more will be added this year, and which in March alone is making 4 thousand daily loans.
The platform is aimed at all students in the country from pre-kindergarten to 4th grade. In its year of operation, it registers 10,177,897 users and its daily average reaches 73,928 users. Only in the last week had 539,351 total downloads of educational resources.
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