Global OLE Assembly 2010 Planned for Rwanda
Blogging from the Global OLE Assembly in Kathmandu, Nepal – OLE Rwanda Executive Director Jacques Murinda has offered to host the second Global OLE Assembly, tentatively in October 2010, in Kigali.
Jacques Murinda
In its first year, OLE Rwanda has been working with its Ministry of Education on content including the adaptation and translation into the Rwandan language of Siyavula learning activities and curriculum materials used in South Africa under the Shuttleworth Foundation’s program. It is also localizing guides for teachers related to the Siyavula approach and planning professional development for their use whether in print, online, or on a laptop that is offline.
About the Global OLE Assembly
The Open Learning Exchange (OLE), an emerging global network dedicated to educating the world’s children, is holding its first meeting of educational innovators from across the developing world in Kathmandu on November 2 to 7, hosted by OLE Nepal.
Among those attending have been Mahashram Sharma (Director General of Department of Education); Lawa Dev Awasthi (Joint Secretary of Nepal’s Ministry of Education); Haribol Khanal (Executive Director of Nepal’s Curriculum Development Center); Prativa Pandey (Chairperson of the Board of Directors of OLE Nepal and Chair of the opening session); Richard Rowe (Founder and CEO of OLE International) and members of his team; Kedar Bhakta Mathema (Former Vice Chancellor of Tribhuvan University and the Chief of the advisory board of OLE Nepal); Rabi Karmacharya (Executive Director of OLE Nepal) and members of his team; and representatives from OLE Centers and partners in Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Rwanda, and other countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America.
