Archive for April, 2008

OLE Nepal launches eLearning project

Monday, April 28th, 2008

OLPC XO Laptops in Nepali schoolOn April 25, 2008, Open Learning Exchange Nepal (OLE Nepal) distributed 135 OLPC laptops to grade 2 and 6 students from two schools in Kathmandu Valley. These were additional to the 22 laptops distributed to teachers from the schools during the teacher preparation program held a month ago. The elearning project was undertaken in partnership with Nepal government’s Department of Education (DoE).

This project is part of OLE Nepal’s mission to increase the quality of education while reducing the current disparity in access and quality between school types, regions, and population groups by integrating ICT (information and computer technology)-based education in the daily teaching-learning process.

The laptops for the project were donated by the Danish IT Society in Copenhagen. Read more on OLE Nepal’s blog.

Posted in OLE Nepal

Dominican Republic

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Meeting and initial conversations have taken place to make the Dominican Republic the newest of the Open Learning Exchange development sites. In cooperation with the Ambassador, Jose Santana Silvestre, and his director of special projects, Mariel Feliz Peralta, OLE has engaged the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts and its school system to partner in developing OLE applications and partnerships in the Dominican Republic. (more…)

Posted in Emerging Centers