Ensuring every child a quality basic education by 2015 by creating networks of nation-based Centers that demonstrate the power of free and open educational content using low-cost technologies and that motivate governments to make the essential financial investments.
RECENT NEWS
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New School Celebrated in Nepal | 05.19.2008
Yesterday John Cook, educational philanthropist and member of the OLE Board of Directors, bordered a helicopter and flew to a remote Himalayan village for the commemoration of a school for 1,500 children he had paid for the cost of building. He did not know at the time that this was only the second time [...]
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OLE at eLearning Africa conference | 05.02.2008
OLE will be participating in the eLearning Africa Conference, May 28 - 30 in Accra, Ghana. This will be the 3rd international conference on the use of information and computer technology (ICT) for development, education and training.
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OLE Nepal launches eLearning project | 04.28.2008
On April 25, 2008, Open Learning Exchange Nepal (OLE Nepal) distributed 135 OLPC laptops to grade 2 and 6 students from two schools in Kathmandu Valley. These were additional to the 22 laptops distributed to teachers from the schools during the teacher preparation program held a month ago. The elearning project was undertaken in partnership [...]
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Dominican Republic | 04.21.2008
Meeting and initial conversations have taken place to make the Dominican Republic the newest of the Open Learning Exchange development sites. In cooperation with the Ambassador, Jose Santana Silvestre, and his director of special projects, Mariel Feliz Peralta, OLE has engaged the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts and its school system to partner in developing [...]
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OLE board member honored | 03.21.2008
William F. Foote, President of Root Capital and a member of the Board of Directors of Open Learning Exchange, has been named a Young Global Leader for 2008. This honour is bestowed each year by the World Economic Forum to recognize and acknowledge the top 200-300 young leaders from around the world for their professional [...]
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ACTIVE OLEs
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Nepal
Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal is a Nepali non-governmental organization dedicated to assisting the Government of Nepal in meeting its Education for All goals by developing freely accessible, open-source Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-based educational teaching-learning materials.
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China
After meetings in Beijing in October 2007, a broad-based group of non-governmental and governmental leaders decided to move rapidly forward for the establishment of OLE China. The China national Ministry of Education has indicated its strong support for this development.
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Ghana
OLE Ghana will primarily concern itself with educational issues, specifically related to deployment of information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in furtherance of the Ghana Government's avowed aim of making ICTs an accelerator of national development through its use in education.
OTHER COUNTRIES
