81 Entries for "Program Updates"
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READ MORENov. 2, 2009 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
Global OLE Assembly Opened by Social Entrepreneurs and Government Officials
Kathmandu, Nepal – The opening sessions of the first Open Learning Exchange Global Assembly took place on November 2 at the Everest Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal. Among those in attendance were 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 the representatives from the various OLE Centers around the world participating in the conference.
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READ MOREJuly 16, 2009 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
Wanted: Enterprise Content Management for Education
One of the tasks that I'll be working on during my brief stint here in Nepal is researching and (hopefully) implementing a way to organize all the different media objects produced by OLE Nepal as the basis for their E-Paath learning activities. Currently, we are talking about several thousand images, sounds, texts, and videos, but it's not hard to imagine their repository containing hundreds of thousands or more artifacts in the not-too-distant future. Apart from the specific OLE Nepal use-case, I also believe that even larger content repositories have to be a core consideration for both the larger OLPC and SugarLabs efforts.
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READ MOREJuly 8, 2009 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
Innovation in Education (OLPC implementation in Nepal)
Since its inception in 2005, the One Laptop Per Child Program (OLPC) with its $200 XO laptop has simultaneously sparked excitement and hype as well as controversy, particularly within the realm of educational discourse. After all, in OLPC chairman Nicholas Negroponte's own words, “It’s not a laptop project. It’s an education project.” In Nepal, Open Learning Exchange Nepal (OLE Nepal) has created its own model. Instead of simply distributing XO laptops to children, the organization has taken matters a step further by creating original digital learning activities directly supplementing the current national educational curriculum, training teachers to use the new resources to best effect and creating a digital library with a wide range of educational materials before finally distributing the laptops in public schools all over the country. What they are doing in Nepal, in the systematic manner that it is being done, in conjunction with the government, is the first project of its kind and its success could inspire countries around the world to adapt the model to fit their own requirements.