OLE Nepal
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Open Learning Exchange Nepal
Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal is a social benefit organization with a mission to increase access to quality education through the integration of technology. OLE Nepal has been working since 2007 to use innovations in technology to improve education quality and access in rural public schools in the country with the belief that inexpensive computers are in the long-term the most cost-effective medium for increasing access to education for Nepali children. The organization aims to increase the quality of education through the creation of open-source digital learning activities combined with teacher training. The introduction of laptops to students and teachers were accompanied by the following activities: Development and distribution of free and open digital educational content, preparing teachers on effective integration of ICT in classroom teaching, research and development of appropriate technology and network infrastructure.
OLE program is currently running in fifty schools in sixteen districts in various forms with support from development partners including Danish Government’s Local Grant Authority, UN World Food Programme (WFP) School Feeding Program (SFP) and Finish Government’s Funds for Local Cooperation.
OLE Nepal and DoE currently started the implementation of OLPC shared model in fifteen schools in three new districts this year based on the review of the program and the feedback received from teachers and school. In the shared-model, students from different classes share a set of laptops but each student has one-to-one access to laptops and digital resources when a particular class is using the laptops. The shared-model has been proposed based on the lessons learned over the past three years. In addition to significant cost savings, what this model makes is easier for schools and teachers to manage the programs.
It has a full-time staff of 21 that includes two full-time volunteers. It's content development team has 2 graphic designers, six programmers, and four full-time educators. For the present, it is focusing on developing learning activities in Squeak and Flash.
OLE Nepal resources
- OLE Home
- OLE Projects on Redmine project management tool (user account needed)
- OLE Nepal Deployment Guide
- OLE Nepal Presentation at 1cc - Rabi Karmacharya came to Boston to share insights on what's been happening in Nepal so far.
- More about the OLE Nepal Community.
- OLE Blog which is pretty darn active
- Mailing list for OLPC in Nepal
- OLE IRC chatroom: #olenepal
- How you can get involved
Projects
E-Paath
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E-Paath is a set of interactive learning activities developed in squeak and flash and integrated with the curriculum developed under the Nepal Ministry of Education. It is created in the spirit that technology must demonstrate a clear and immediate benefit to both teachers and students in order to be widely adopted or consistently used. While it is being implemented under the One Laptop Per Child project, E-Paath is part of OLE Nepal's wider effort to develop high-quality, open-source, digital learning materials for schools.
E-Pustakalaya
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Following the principle that the availability of freely accessible teaching-learning materials along with an education-centred electronic library (e-library) would be a transformative step in addressing the problems of quality, access, and disparity in education in Nepal, OLE Nepal has been working on its digital library, E-Pustakalaya, since summer 2008. E-Pustakalaya (www.pustakalaya.org) is now running with basic features and content including a Wikipedia Selection for schools, 384 volumes of childen's and classic literature in both Nepali and English, and 141 teaching support materials. E-Pustakalaya is a collaborative effort in partnership with the Nepal Library Foundation, Room to read, Save the Children, Madan Pursaskar Pustakalaya, Rato Bangala Foundation and World Education Nepal.
Deployments and Trials
Current Deployments
OLE Nepal deployed nearly 2500 laptops to 26 schools in 6 districts in Nepal on April 26, 2009. XO Laptops were installed with interactive learning activities including E-Paath integrated into curriculum for, and distributed to, classes 2, 3 and 6. Complete information on sites can be found on OLE's deployment sites page of the Redmine project management tool.
Schools By district:
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- 1. Shree Samaijee Pra Vi, Haat
- 2. Shree Janata Pra Vi, Koral
- 3. Shree Janjyoti Pra Vi, Hamtaad
- 1. Mahendra Primary School
- 2. Pancha LSS Baijalpur
- 3. Nepal Rastra LSS Chauri
- 1. Janashanti Ma. Bi., Kagbeni
- 2. Janahit Ma. Bi., Jomsom
- 3. Janakalyan Ni. Ma. Bi, Tsyang
- 4. Janawal Ma. Bi. Marpha
- 5. Gyanodaya Ma. Bi., Lete
- 6. Jana Adarsha Ma. Bi., Kobang
- 7. Yogendra Ma. Bi., Tukuche
- 1. Raj Devi
- 2. Dibya Jyoti
- 3. Laxmi
- 4. Manakamana
- 5. Shree Devi
- 1. Vishwamitra
- 2. Bashuki
- 3. Sringeri Ni. Ma. Vi.
- 4. Siddheswor Ni.Ma.Vi
- 5. Navajyoti Ni.Ma.Vi
- 1. Janajyoti Ma Vi, Janagal
- 2. Binayak Bal Ni Ma Vi, Badal Gaon
- 3. Nabin Pra Vi, Khanalthok, Bhakunde
OLE Nepal in Bashuki and Bishwamitra schools
OLPC launched at Bashuki and Bishwamitra schools on April 25th, 2008. Open Learning Exchange Nepal (OLE Nepal) distributed a total of 135 OLPC laptops to grade 2 and 6 students from two schools in the outskirts of Kathmandu Valley. These were addition to the 22 laptops that were handed out to teachers from the schools during the teacher preparation program held a month earlier. The laptop project was undertaken in partnership with Nepal government’s Department of Education (DoE). This project is part of OLE Nepal’s mission to increase quality of education while reducing current disparity in access and quality between school types, regions, and population groups by integrating ICT-based education in daily teaching-learning process. The laptops for the project were donated by the Danish IT Society in Copenhagen.
These pilots focus on integrating laptops into the Nepali educational system and measuring their impact. The laptops and relevant software have been integrated into the Nepali curriculum and teaching process for grades two and six, subjects Mathematics and English. We at OLE Nepal believe that the central challenge of this project is not to get children to use the constructionist tools within the XO, but to utilize the XO to fill gaps, providing previously unavailable tools such as a virtual science lab.
Also see: Evaluation of OLPC Project Nepal: A Summary
Further Resources
OLE Nepal Development
This is a stub for pages relating to the XO/XS software development and deployment activity.
- Use Traditional Nepali unicode in your XO
- Procedure to build NEXS form OLPC XS
- NEXO/NEXS/NEXC development
- OLE_Nepal:Testing
- OLE_Nepal:Schoolserver
OLE Nepal Deployment
The current Deployment Guide OLE_Nepal:_Deployment_guide
Technical
Older Documents
Many planning documents were produced for the early deployment. Some of these were incorporated in later documents for general deployments.
- Pilot Sites, including selection process, target, and deployment teams
- Jamirkot (Lalitpur), Bishwamitra Ganesh school pilot, including technical planning
- Lakuri Bhanjyang (Lalitpur), Shree Bashuki school pilot, including technical planning
- Teacher Training
- Content Development
- Content Development Principles
- EPaath (Etoys) - suite of educational software for grades 2 and 6 developed by OLE Nepal
- Scratch - A great, intuitive programming language in which students can easily create all sorts of content
- Program Evaluation (to be created)
- Technical Aspects of the Deployment
- Testing and QA + some non-technical logistics
- Power Systems -- currently power distribution, hopefully will later encompass power distribution
- Networking
OLE Nepal Blog
The OLE Nepal Blog is used to document in real-time, the actions and progress of OLE Nepal. Here are some past stories, with information relevant to the deployment of the XO.
- The OLE Nepal Blog Archive for current blog entries please see the OLE Nepal Blog.
- Announcements The Announcements category includes general announcements pertaining to OLE Nepal.
- Development The Development category includes documentation and discussion of software development.
- News and Events The News category catalogues general news items, and information about OLE Nepal events.
- Testing The Testing category includes information on software and system testing.
- Uncategorized The Uncategorized category includes general information updates about OLE Nepal.
OLE Nepal Community
The community is accomplishing much. Read through these link to learn about the people and their projects. Additionally, there are some resources such as what projects need help, intern projects, and an intern manual.Please read all this.
- Our Community More about the OLE Nepal Community.
See also
- Nepal-Austria Cooperation (still a stub)