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Founding Partner Open Learning Exchange |
We at the Open Learning Exchange are committed to ensuring access to basic education throughout the world by 2015.
Over one billion school-aged children in over one hundred countries do not have access to even the most essential learning. To help each of these countries achieve universal basic education for their young people, OLE intends to help establish country-based non-governmental organizations committed to ensuring that all of their children and young people have access to basic education within the next decade. We are planning three pilot country-based sites in 2007 and expect to expand rapidly to many more countries over the next two to three years. Nepal OLE is our first pilot and discussions with groups in other countries are well underway.
Some have called our ambitious goal audacious. We believe it is achievable because we have a powerful strategy. The arrival of the Internet, now combined with low-cost laptop computers, make possible a multi-faceted approach: free and open-source curricula, online teacher development and laptops for each student—all functioning within a local-to-global knowledge-sharing network. At a tiny fraction of the costs of conventional textbooks and top-down teacher training, this approach can jump start quality basic education in ways never before been imaginable.
Resources. Our most immediate need is for more money to invest in assisting local OLE’s get started in developing this new approach to effective basic education. Imagine the enormous multiplier effect. Our goal by the end of 2008 is to raise pledges of $55 million, enabling us to respond constructively to the requests for assistance already far exceeding our capacity.Please invest what you can.Opening minds to possibility. When many people feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of global poverty, you can help us alert people to the multiplier effect of bottom-up, empowering education that can allow communities to address crises of food and nutrition, disease, unemployment, pollution and violence that accompany and exacerbate ignorance. Please send us your comments and suggestions.Contact us and invest in this mission with your money, ideas, and your time. Your engagement with OLE will add a new dimension of meaning to your life.Sincerely,Richard R. Rowe, Ph.D., Chair and CEO, Open Learning Exchange
Download the 2008 Annual Report for Open Learning Exchange
Download the 2007 Annual Report for Open Learning Exchange
