191 Entries for “Recent Blogs”
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READ MOREOct. 23, 2024 | Team Reflections | Bishal Pokhrel
A Developer's First Field Visit: My Experience in Dolpo, Nepal
After eight days of travel, our team finally reached Siddhartha Kula school at Tinje, Dolpo. It wasn’t an easy journey—two days of flights, four days of trekking through breathtaking landscapes, and a rest day to recover before we arrived at the school. The school is set between large stone hills and rivers, creating a calm and beautiful scene that amazed us all.
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READ MOREOct. 10, 2024 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
E-Paath on mobile platforms
In our efforts to expand access to educational content to more learners, we have launched a pilot program for the deployment of E-Paath on android mobile. This initiative involved adapting the E-Paath activities to be responsive on smaller mobile devices, building of android apk, and aims to utilize mobile devices– which many families have access to unlike other computing devices like laptops or tablets– to deliver learning resources.
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READ MOREOct. 9, 2024 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
Report from the field activities in Mustang and Dolpo
Our team, working on the Empowering Local Communities through Local Language Education and Skill-Based Training (LLEST) project, has completed its first field visit to two of the five schools being supported under the project: Siddhartha Kula Basic School in Tinje, Dolpo, and Ghami Solar School in Ghami, Mustang.
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READ MOREOct. 9, 2024 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
Robotics Team Formation, Teachers Training and Girls in STEM program
Continuing work from the previous quarter, our robotics and programming team focused on expanding teacher training and student engagement in robotics. From July through September, the team successfully completed a robotics training program for the second phase of teachers (7 teachers) from our partner schools in Lalitpur. Additionally, they launched a dedicated robotics program at Adarsha Kanya Secondary School, an all-girls school in Lalitpur, with support from the KDDI Foundation, Japan. As part of this initiative, the team introduced ICT in Basic Education by setting up a computer lab, installing our E-Pustakalaya digital library, and training three new teachers with robotics kits and Raspberry Pi computers to integrate digital resources effectively into classroom learning.
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READ MOREOct. 9, 2024 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
iOCR Analytics Updates
Open Learning Exchange Nepal has recently updated the OLEN-iOCR platform based on feedback from users, and this has led to a significant boost in our community. Currently, around 500 active users use our platform on a regular basis, including users use our platform on a regular basis, including users from outside Nepal, including the USA, China, India and Brazil. The platform converts documents in English, Nepali or mixed languages to accessible formats, allowing vision impaired users to read scanned documents that are hard to make accessible using existing online free tools.