I have been thinking a lot about the ways that today’s technologies are changing the ways we learn and how those changes affect our societies. Just about everything related to knowledge is changing: Newspapers, radio, TV and the Internet are not what they used to be and are producing changes in the ways we learning…
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Planet Health Pilot in Uganda
Press Release The Open Learning Exchange and Massachusetts General Hospital Global Medicine are pleased to announce an initial round of funding from the Yahoo Employee Foundation for the Planet Health Pilot in Uganda. The Pilot will be carried out in cooperation with Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) and The Bugoye Health Clinic III…
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Tiger Girls — Harvard Evaluation Update
Tiger Girls The TIGER Project (These Inspiring Girls Enjoy Reading) is a project of OLE International being carried out in partnership with UNHCR and International Relief & Development with generous support from UNHCR Innovation. The goal of the TIGER project is to demonstrate and document the effectiveness of an innovative and scalable community based approach to…
Continue ReadingPut a PLANET in Your Pocket
Put a PLANET in Your Pocket OLE is pleased to announce the PLANET learning system: Personalized Learning Accelerated with Networked Energizing Teams: powerful enough to hold thousands of open-learning resources, inexpensive enough for use any place in the world, small enough to fit in your pocket. Imagine seeing 8-year old Kofi, as we have, running to…
Continue ReadingOLE Teams with Harvard to Evaluate the TIGER Girls Program at Za’atari Camp
In mid-June a four-member team from the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and the Open Learning Exchange (OLE) will visit the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan to evaluate the progress of an innovative community education initiative called the TIGER Girls Program. The TIGER program (These Inspiring Girls Enjoy Reading) is being implemented in partnership with…
Continue ReadingOur Rights and Responsibilities
Every child has a right to a quality basic education. From our beginning OLE has emphasized this right to education, found in Article 27 in the Declaration of Human Rights, however I now think this is a one-sided, seriously flawed statement. I now believe that every right should have responsibilities explicitly connected to it. We…
Continue ReadingFollow the money
“Follow the money”, I was told in a recent discussion about OLE’s “business model”. That makes a lot of sense. It get it. One way or another we must to generate enough sustainable income to match sustainable expenses, with a bit more for a rainy day. However business models for satisfying basic human needs must meet multiple requirements. It is a fatal error to focus only on the financial balance sheet.
Continue ReadingSolutions Based Learning in Education
One of OLE’s goals is to promote the use of terms that carry with them connotations that increase their power and meaning. “Solutions Based Learning (SBL) is our latest promotion. We like this term because it focuses the mind on the importance of developing and implementing solutions to problems rather than simply describing them. “Talk…
Continue ReadingOLE and IEA Announce Partnership Agreement
The Open Learning Exchange (OLE) is proud to announce an exciting new partnership agreement with the International Education Association (IEA) in Lebanon. OLE and IEA are joining together across a number of program areas in the Middle East and North Africa beginning with our work at the Za’atari refugee camp in cooperation with UNHCR Innovation….
Continue ReadingHow to Fix Schools for Everyone
It is exciting to see OLE’s Theory of Change, being implemented around the world, also working well in New Jersey. David Kirp, in the New York Times, Highlights the effectiveness of change in the Union City school system, compared with the different approach taken in Newark. OLE’s most recent implementation is the Tiger Girls program…
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