OLE Annual Report highlights developments
The Board of Directors of Open Learning Exchange received and approved OLE’s Annual Report for 2007 at its meeting today at the OLE offices in Cambridge, MA.
The report, which will be available shortly in print and electronic versions, outlines the great need for providing access to free, high-quality learning resources for the children of the world. Although OLE is less than a year old, it has taken great strides toward making its contribution to universal access to education by 2015.
OLE Tool Kits
OLE will be helping national OLEs develop their libraries and communities by providing “plug and play” digital Tool Kits that will help each OLE start operating quickly and efficiently. The Tool Kits include:
- OLE Knowledge Kit
- National Kids Library. This will contain a ready-to-go library for collecting and creating courseware and related educational software, and will connect seamlessly with OLE’s Billion Kids Library.
- Course Development Studio. Here library members and create learning resources from scratch, or by adapting and assembling existing learning resources.
- OLE Community Kit
- Leadership. These materials will help Open Learning Leaders work well on behalf of their members and their organization.
- Learnership. The kit will offer tools and training to help learners learn, and to sustain them in participating in the larger learning community.
- Volunteers. Finding, encouraging, sustaining, and directing volunteers is an art form. The kit will provide tools, suggestions, and templated materials to ease the task.
- OLE Sustainability Kit
- Organizational Development. This includes tutorials, guidelines for legal and human-resources procedures, template forms and documents, and ready-to-use contact management software. Each OLE will thus have the basic tools for supporting its new organization.
- Communications. Tutorials, a model website, template documents, an email facility, and guidlines for press releases and other media tasks will help each Center communicate with its members and supporters, and with its larger community.
- Fundraising. The kit will provide tutorials, template development plans, and other resources for identifying and sustaining a community of financial support for each Center.
With these kits local Centers can quickly become self-sustaining and contributing members of the worldwide Open Learning Exchange Community.
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