Introducing OLE

The Open Learning Exchange (OLE) seeks to transform learning in ways that will enable every child to achieve a quality basic education.

 

Why? Because every child has a fundamental right to quality basic education but over one billion schoolaged children today lack some of the most essential skills – the ability to read and do basic math. This unjust and unnecessary cruelty is a waste of human talent diminishing all of us, ensuring perpetual global conflict.

 

Quality universal basic education is one of the requirements for solving the many problems facing our world today. Three game-changing innovations are making it possible, as never before, to meet this requirement: a) ever-increasing, high-quality and free Open Education Resources, b) low-cost information and communications technologies and c) massive, near real-time, feedback on the effectiveness of learning. These breakthroughs now enable all of us, even the most poor and remote, to achieve a quality education.

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“Healthy Rwanda” Brings Public and Environmental Health into the Classroom

By:  Kelly Manser, Communications and Development Intern
 
Some believe that what you learn in elementary school is irrelevant to the real world. Thanks to Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Rwanda, 10,000 Rwandan public school students will never know that feeling; they won’t pay a cent for the knowledge they gain, either. In April 2013, OLE Rwanda launched Healthy Rwanda, a digital literacy and health education project based in the country’s capital city of Kigali.
 
What does Healthy Rwanda entail, exactly?
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People, Content and Tools: A Pathway Toward Quality Learning For All

Submitted by richardrowe
on Thu, 05/30/2013 - 16:10

By: Richard Rowe, Chair and CEO of Open Learning Exchange

It is now clear that ensuring quality learning for everyone requires major innovations in our education systems. With few exceptions, we have failed in our responsibility to enable our two billion school-aged children to enjoy a quality basic education, enabling them to read, do simple math and earn a livelihood. It is also clear that, while increased investments are required, just pouring more money into doing the same things we have been doing will not change outcomes very much.

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"People, Content and Tools"

A Pathway Towards Quality Learning For All

- Richard Rowe

It is now clear that ensuring quality learning for everyone requires major innovations in our education systems. With few exceptions, we have failed in our responsibility to enable our two billion school-aged children to enjoy a quality basic education, enabling them to read, do simple math and earn a livelihood. It is also clear that, while increased investments are required, just pouring more money into doing the same things we have been doing will not change outcomes very much.
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