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Guyana Digital School — National AI-Powered Online Learning Platform

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Guyana's Ministry of Education launched a national AI-powered online school in December 2025; 20,368 Grade 10–11 students from Guyana and CARICOM were enrolled at launch, with over 30,000 registered and AI used to flag individual learning gaps.

~2,400
Students registered in mid-2025 pilot (mid-2025)
20,368
Grade 10-11 students enrolled at national launch (5 Dec 2025)
30,000+
Students registered across the Caribbean
Guyana Digital School — National AI-Powered Online Learning Platform

Details

Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
Ministry of Education, Guyana
Period
2025– (pilot Aug 2025; national launch Dec 2025)
Keywords
K-12 online learning, personalised learning, EdTech infrastructure

Context

The Guyana Digital School is a government-run online learning platform combining live, teacher-led interactive classes with a digital library and AI-powered support tools, run by Guyana's Ministry of Education.

Objectives

The Ministry describes the AI component as being used to identify individual learning gaps so that instruction and digital-library recommendations can be tailored to each student.

Activities

A pilot phase from mid-2025 registered around 2,400 students, teachers and parents at schools including St Rose's High School and North Ruimveldt Multilateral School in Georgetown, ahead of the platform's official national launch on 5 December 2025; an expansion to Grades 7-9 was planned for early 2026.

Results

At launch, 20,368 students in Grades 10 and 11 from Guyana and other CARICOM countries were enrolled, and officials reported that more than 30,000 students across the Caribbean had registered for access.

Conclusions

Public reporting so far documents enrolment and registration figures and the platform's stated features, but no independent evaluation of learning outcomes, engagement retention or the accuracy of its AI gap-identification tool has been published; as a newly launched, centrally run national platform, its longer-term sustainability and effectiveness are not yet demonstrated beyond the initial rollout numbers.

Implementation
Indicative cost
High (€500k–€5M) — No budget figure is published; building and operating a national live-class platform with an AI gap-identification tool and digital library implies substantial infrastructure investment, hence a high cost band.
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years) — Piloted from mid-2025, nationally launched 5 December 2025, with a Grades 7-9 expansion planned for early 2026 -- a fast, ongoing rollout rather than a static one-off.
Staffing & skills
Ministry of Education, Guyana, Trained educators delivering live interactive classes

Conditions for success

  • Central government ownership and rollout across Guyana and CARICOM member states
  • A pilot phase (mid-2025) to test the platform with a smaller cohort before national launch
  • Digital-library and AI gap-identification infrastructure built ahead of scale-up

Common failure modes

  • No independent evaluation of learning outcomes, engagement retention, or accuracy of the AI gap-identification tool has been published
  • As a newly launched platform, longer-term sustainability beyond initial rollout numbers is not yet demonstrated

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