--- description: Find out why The Learning Passport is one of the best inventions of 2021 title: The Learning Passport: The 100 Best Inventions of 2021 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2f00d48f31b610e/698a1e8fb3fce31b0b0c87fa/best-inventions-2021-The-Learning-Passport-02.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 10, 2021 # Online Learning, Offline The Learning Passport by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  The COVID-19 pandemic saw students around the world struggle as schools shut down and home school was hindered by slow or—in many places—nonexistent Internet service. The Learning Passport’s solution: give students app- or browser-based classes that do not require a consistent web connection. Instead students access the platform when they can, downloading their lessons to complete later, offline. Developed jointly by UNICEF and Microsoft, the Learning Passport allows educators to upload local curricula—meaning it works across multiple languages, subjects and age groups. First deployed in Timor-Leste in 2020, the Learning Passport now has some 1.6 million users in 13 countries. _—Chad de Guzman_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2021/6112659/unicef-the-learning-passport/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2021/6112659/unicef-the-learning-passport/"},"headline":"Online Learning, Offline","datePublished":"2021-11-10T11:11:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:55:50.425Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2021/6112659/unicef-the-learning-passport/","keywords":["list","franchise","best inventions","Best Inventions 2021"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2f00d48f31b610e/698a1e8fb3fce31b0b0c87fa/best-inventions-2021-The-Learning-Passport-02.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2f00d48f31b610e/698a1e8fb3fce31b0b0c87fa/best-inventions-2021-The-Learning-Passport-02.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2021/6112659/unicef-the-learning-passport/","name":"Online Learning, Offline"}}]}] ```