aprendIA is a pocket-sized mentor and trainer for teachers. Combining global best teacher training pedagogies with local standards and then supercharged with a custom multi-LLM builder, aprendIA delivers reliable, classroom-ready guidance across messaging platforms such as WhatsApp.
Our design philosophy revolves around empowering teachers as the core of education.
Every teacher’s assistant adapts to your specific needs, contexts, and resources.
Teachers can test their knowledge and complete coursework against global best pedagogical practices.
Wherever teachers have access to WhatsApp, aprendIA is there to respond to support teacher needs.
Built by technologists and education-in-emergencies experts, aprendIA delivers bite-size, low-bandwidth learning, and it is content-agnostic. The same formula that powers teacher professional development can deliver any curriculum or knowledge set: onboard your content and reach learners via WhatsApp, SMS, email, or web.
Nigeria faces an education emergency: only 26% of Nigerian children aged 7-14 have basic reading and math skills. With 3.5 million people internally displaced, 10.2 million primary-aged children out of school, and teachers often outnumbered 1:100 in the classroom, it’s no wonder why. The scenario is even more dire in the Northeast region.
In this context, sending a child to school is necessary but not sufficient — quality learning, safe classrooms, and continuity are just as critical. aprendIA in Nigeria aims to improve teachers’ ability to create safe and supportive classrooms while also delivering quality instruction.
Following last year’s pilot, aprendIA is now scaling across Borno, Adamawa and Yobe (BAY) states in partnership with the State Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEBs) and the Ministries of Education. As of September 2026, 6,100+ educators have activated and interacted with the chatbot—more than ten times the pilot. Our users are engaged! Our Nigerian team collaborates closely with local and national stakeholders both in the formal school setting and in nonformal learning centers to reach both in-school and out-of-school children. Our ambition is to reach 137,000 teachers and facilitators by 2028.
aprendIA was built with Nigerian teachers, local administrators and national ministry officials. This ensures it meets real needs at all levels. We are now testing this process and bot design in other countries, including Ecuador and Niger, as well as for acute emergency response. Through this process, we will learn how to adapt aprendIA to be meaningful in multiple contexts and reach teachers across the globe.
Our mission has always been to improve learning outcomes and scale impact. Today, we’re proud to share that aprendIA, an AI-powered WhatsApp chatbot for teachers has been officially included in the Learning Cabinet, a platform that highlights solutions capable of addressing the global learning crisis. We’re honored to join a community of innovators evaluated through…
aprendIA Case Study: Leveraging Behavioral Science to Promote Adoption of AI-Driven Learning Among Learning Facilitators in North-East Nigeria Vaidehi Uberoi, Behavioral Insights AdvisorInternational Rescue CommitteeMay 2025 INTRODUCTION In conflict-affected areas such as North-East Nigeria, the obstacles to delivering quality education are considerable. Educators frequently face difficulties in sustaining their engagement, motivation, and continuity in professional…
From Research Findings to Product Decisions — in Practice What we changed, and why aprendIA is built for teachers in crisis- and conflict-affected contexts: low bandwidth, high interruption, limited time, very little room for friction. Two evidence streams, a qualitative evidence review and a product analytics review, did not just validate our assumptions, they changed…
aprendIA is developed and operated by the International Rescue Committee. We design, test and scale life-changing products and services to solve the challenges people face in crisis-affected communities.
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