Dubai KHDA’s Five Core Strategic Objectives
Outlined below are the five strategic goals by the Government of Dubai through the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) that are at the center of their mandate.
Empowering Emiratis
Item #1
High quality education that enhances individual achievement and embeds the Emirati values and use of the Arabic language as a way of reinforcing and strengthening the country’s cultural heritage. Uluru takes the existing curriculum and incorporates an adaptive reinforcement system (ARS)–a learning algorithm that personalizes content, timing, and modality of behavioral nudges. It will enhance achievement by supporting improved focus, task completion, and self awareness while reducing anxiety and procrastination. By improving and inculcating executive function skills, Emirati youth will be better prepared to handle transitions and increased challenges in both school and life
High quality education that enhances individual achievement and embeds the Emirati values and use of the Arabic language as a way of reinforcing and strengthening the country’s cultural heritage. Uluru takes the existing curriculum and incorporates an adaptive reinforcement system (ARS)–a learning algorithm that personalizes content, timing, and modality of behavioral nudges. It will enhance achievement by supporting improved focus, task completion, and self awareness while reducing anxiety and procrastination. By improving and inculcating executive function skills, Emirati youth will be better prepared to handle transitions and increased challenges in both school and life.
Equitable and Accessible
Education designed around the well being of diverse learners. While Uluru can improve the experience of all students, it has been developed with a particular sensitivity to the type of support needed by a range of complex learning differences and challenges. Uluru is the only scalable, financially accessible platform that offers executive functioning scaffolding and support for both students and parents in real time and on an individualized level.
Innovation and Growth
Encouraging an innovative landscape that aligns with Dubai’s broader economic vision. Elula, Inc., Uluru’s parent company, is committed to working with the KHDA team, parents, and schools to expand on the foundations of Uluru in building autonomous learning skills that will not only improve an individual’s ability to manage transitions towards more challenging academic requirements, but also allow the creation of a digital portfolio of their learning style, interests, and aspirations that can stay with the student through transitions from elementary to higher education and even into the job market.
Transparency & Support
Providing clear standards and support for educators, parents, students, and investors. Core to Uluru’s values is the importance of all stakeholders having the tools to autonomously support students, including students themselves.
Transparency is critical in developing healthy motivation. It allows for the necessary feedback loop that helps students set future goals and a pathway towards achieving those goals. Transparency gives parents the necessary information and language to support their children. Additionally, it helps educators be more efficient and more strategic with efforts in targeting specific challenges delivering content. Overall, it allows for more attunement to how the students individually and collectively are managing their curriculum and requirements.
Student Well-Being
Prioritizing happiness and holistic development, exemplified by initiatives like the Dubai Student Wellbeing Census. Because Uluru intersects a student’s experience in real time as they are working through the curriculum, it allows for regular check-ins that can monitor a student’s mental wellbeing.
This in turn, will help the students build self awareness around when they might feel anxious or overwhelmed and normalize those emotions, as well as highlight the available tools that can support them in those moments.