Why is Learning Mindset growing in Africa?

Why Africa? Because universities across Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria are leaning into a future where students become autonomous learners, teachers become designers of meaningful learning experiences, and institutions seek practical, student-centered tools that fit their local realities. Learning Mindset (LM) is partnering with them - not to export ready-made solutions, but to co-create the next generation of LM tools together.

We are opening two major avenues of collaboration:

1. Small Grants Programme: Teachers as Designers, Implementers, and Researchers

Lecturers receive seed funding to adapt, redesign, or invent LM-inspired tools for their own classrooms - whether in autonomous learning, game-based learning, or AI literacy. Each project is implemented in the upcoming semester, studied systematically, and supported through a shared series of LM webinars on co-creation, research design, implementation, analysis, and writing. By 2027, participating teachers will have publishable studies grounded in their own contexts and students.

2. LM Academy: Students as Innovators and Facilitators

Universities nominate student-trainers who will be coached to deliver LM tools - such as Skills Passports, Make This My Course, LM Planners, Field Journals, Angela Ignatius and Game of Games - within their own institutions. But they do more than deliver workshops: they adapt, expand, and redesign the tools themselves or even create brand new ones, ensuring they work for the learning cultures they know best. In this way, student-trainers become co-authors of LM’s evolving toolset.

Across both programmes, one principle guides us:

Learning tools should be shaped by the people who use them.

We are thrilled to learn alongside our new partners in Accra, Nairobi, Narok, Kano, Lagos and Bayero - and to see the LM tools grow in directions we could not have imagined alone.