Test for outcome stories 1

 

Part 2 : The Outcome Story, Section by Section

British Council Rwanda, with funding from Mastercard Foundation, in partnership with the Rwanda Basic Education Board (REB).

Website use: name British Council prominently, with Mastercard Foundation and REB credited as funding and national partners, this signals both international and government credibility.

Secondary Teachers English Language Improvement Rwanda (STELIR).

Website use: this can be the page title. A shorter public-facing version: “Digitising English Teacher Training for Rwanda’s Classrooms.”

British Council Rwanda leads STELIR, one of the country’s most ambitious secondary school English teacher training programmes, delivered through a fully integrated blended model combining face-to-face sessions, school-based mentoring, and a 20-week online self-study course. The programme trained 10,081 teachers nationally, working alongside REB and specialist content partner NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education).

Website use: a short profile box with British Council, Mastercard Foundation, and REB logos, plus the total teacher reach figure, works well as a sidebar element.

STELIR’s course content was expertly written by ELT (English Language Teaching) specialists at NILE, but it existed as static written material. For thousands of teachers studying independently on tablets, often with limited digital experience and no facilitator present, plain text was not enough. The content needed to become genuinely interactive, self-navigable, and locally relevant, or teachers would disengage from the self-study component entirely.

Website use: pair this section with a visual of a tablet displaying the course interface, illustrating the shift from static text to interactive learning.

• Transform expertly written but static ELT content into a fully interactive, self-navigable online course.
• Ensure the course worked reliably for teachers studying independently on tablets, without a facilitator present.
• Ground the content in Rwandan life so that teachers recognised their own context and stayed engaged.

Website use: this works well as a 3-icon row (interactivity icon, tablet icon, local-context icon) directly under the Challenge section.

Three Mountains digitised the final unit modules across three CEFR levels (A1, A2, and B1, the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, ranging from beginner to independent user), using the EasyGenerator authoring tool. The build included:

• Listening exercises with integrated audio and pronunciation practice.
• Multiple choice, true/false, gap-fill, drag-and-drop, ranking, and matching question types.
• Flip-card vocabulary activities and dialogue role-play tasks.
• Collaborative notebook and peer-sharing tasks, plus grammar exercises building on prior units.

A defining feature of the work was the deliberate Rwandan grounding of the content: character names (Alice, Daniel, Didier, Jacqueline, Adeline, Janvier, Joseph, Gilbert) and settings (a Kigali restaurant serving cassava and brochettes, a booking enquiry at Nyarutarama Sports Centre) were adapted by Three Mountains from the original scripts to reflect learners’ own cultural context.

Website use: this is the natural place for a course-screenshot gallery alongside a short callout box on the localisation work, the local names and settings are a strong, tangible differentiator.

• Course levels: CEFR A1, A2, and B1 (three proficiency levels, from beginner to independent user).
• Content scope: final unit modules digitised at all three levels, with full interactivity and Rwandan localisation.
• Authoring tool: EasyGenerator.
• Target audience: secondary school English teachers studying independently on tablets as part of a blended delivery model.

Website use: scope details work best as a compact stat strip (levels, tool, audience) placed right below the hero image.

• Content handover: NILE-authored ELT content received by Three Mountains for digitisation.
• Interactive build: course modules built in EasyGenerator across all three CEFR levels, including localisation of names and settings.
• User testing: a structured testing workshop held on 3 July 2023 with 13 in-service teachers at Remera Catholic School, organised and facilitated by Three Mountains.
• Refinement and deployment: issues identified during testing were documented with concrete solutions, and the refined course was deployed digitally for national rollout as part of the blended STELIR delivery model.

Website use: this section is well suited to a horizontal timeline graphic with four steps, matching the bullets above.

• Fully interactive final unit modules at CEFR levels A1, A2, and B1.
• Integrated audio, listening, and pronunciation exercises.
• Six question types: multiple choice, true/false, gap-fill, drag-and-drop, ranking, and matching.
• Rwandan-localised characters, dialogues, and settings across all three levels.
• A structured user-testing report (3 July 2023) documenting issues and solutions for course refinement.

Website use: this list can be shown as a simple checklist graphic, clean and scannable, ideal for a ‘What We Delivered’ subsection.

STELIR’s national outcomes reflect the combined effort of all programme partners. By the end of the programme, 10,081 teachers were trained; 95% of in-service teachers and 97% of pre-service teachers reached the target B1 level or above in spoken English.

Website use: lead with the 10,081 teachers / 95% figures as a strong visual element, but keep the framing honest, these are programme-wide results achieved by all partners together, not attributable to Three Mountains alone.

• 10,081 teachers trained nationally through the STELIR programme.
• 95% of in-service teachers and 97% of pre-service teachers reached B1 level or above in spoken English.
• 98% of participants reported using English more confidently and effectively in the classroom.
• 92% reported increased confidence using technology for professional development.
• 76% of participants came from rural areas; 204 local English Teacher Trainers and mentors were developed to sustain the programme.

Website use: build this as a stat card row with large bold numbers and short labels underneath, ideal for LinkedIn carousels, but always paired with the programme-wide context note from Section 10.

Before	After
Expertly written ELT course content existed only as static text.	Content transformed into a fully interactive, self-navigable online course with audio, drag-and-drop, and six question types.
Teachers studying independently on tablets had no facilitator to guide them through the material.	Course built to be fully self-navigable, with clear instructions and structured feedback for independent learners.
Generic course scripts risked feeling distant from teachers’ daily lives.	Rwandan names, settings, and everyday scenarios (Kigali restaurants, Nyarutarama Sports Centre) grounded the content in learners’ own context.
Untested digital content risked navigation confusion and learner disengagement at scale.	Structured user testing with 13 teachers surfaced real usability issues, each documented with a concrete solution before national deployment.

Website use: this is the strongest candidate for a two-column visual comparison block, ideally paired with a course-interface screenshot.

A direct client testimonial specific to Three Mountains’ STELIR work is not currently available in the project records.

Website use: request a short quote from British Council or REB before publishing this section — a testimonial on the quality of the digitisation work or the user-testing process would strengthen this case study significantly. Do not fabricate a quote in its absence.

• Screenshots of the interactive course interface at A1, A2, and B1 levels, showing question types and localisation.
• Photos from the 3 July 2023 user-testing workshop at Remera Catholic School, if available.
• British Council, Mastercard Foundation, and REB logos, for credibility and institutional context.

Status: visual assets have not yet been confirmed as available, the designer should check with the project team before the page is built, and should not use stock imagery in place of real course screenshots or field photos for this story.

Date	Milestone
31 May 2023	Final NILE-authored course scripts (A1, A2, B1, Unit 20) delivered for digitisation.
3 July 2023	Three Mountains organises and facilitates the course-testing workshop with 13 in-service teachers at Remera Catholic School.
After 3 July 2023	Issues from testing documented and resolved; refined course deployed digitally for national rollout.
Programme completion	10,081 teachers trained nationally; 95% of in-service and 97% of pre-service teachers reach B1 level or above.

Website use: a simple horizontal timeline graphic works well here; keep only the confirmed milestones above on the public-facing version.

• EasyGenerator authoring tool for building interactive course content.
• Six interactive question formats: multiple choice, true/false, gap-fill, drag-and-drop, ranking, and matching.
• Structured, in-person user testing with real end users (13 in-service teachers) prior to national deployment.
• Deliberate localisation methodology: adapting character names and settings to Rwandan context.

Website use: this section can support a ‘Methodology’ sidebar or footnote, useful for readers with a technical or institutional interest (donors, government partners).

• Structured user testing before national deployment surfaces real usability issues (navigation confusion, unclear drag-and-drop instructions, discouragement from unclear feedback) that would not be visible from a desk review alone.
• Every issue documented during testing should have a concrete, actionable solution proposed alongside it, not just a description of the problem.
• Local grounding of names and settings is not a cosmetic addition; it directly affects whether learners recognise themselves in the material and stay engaged.
• Independent online self-study components need extra design attention (clear instructions, self-navigability) since no facilitator is present to clarify confusion in real time.

Website use: this section is best kept for internal use or for donor/institutional reporting, it is generally too candid for public-facing marketing content, but valuable for proposal writing and case studies aimed at technical audiences.

Three Mountains Learning Advisors turns expertly written content into interactive learning experiences that work for real learners, on real devices, in real classrooms. If your organisation needs course content digitised and tested with the people who will actually use it, let’s talk.

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