190 Entries for “Recent Blogs”
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READ MOREJan. 11, 2017 | Fundraisers | OLE Nepal
Fundraisers 2016
OLE Nepal is grateful to friends and well-wishers who have supported our efforts to provide access to quality education to children in remote parts of Nepal. Their support have been critical in raising funds to buy durable laptops that we have been deploying to schools in Bajhang and Baitadi districts.
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READ MOREOct. 3, 2016 | Impact Stories | OLE Nepal
Volunteer Spotlight: Prajna Ho
With the specific concern of the quality of education, I had been thinking of any social projects that can be facilitated for creating a better learning environment in Nepal. Having observed the major differences of education received in developing and developed regions, I would like to say that the accessibility to the Internet and quality content have largely determined the level of empowerment of one’s self-learning. The idea of donating laptops has come to my mind and that had motivated me to support Open Learning Exchange Nepal (OLE Nepal) who has been working on this social cause.
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READ MOREOct. 2, 2016 | Learning Applications Development | OLE Nepal
Bringing Raspberry Pi to classrooms
At OLE Nepal, we strive to bring the best new technology to our classrooms. It's never easy to embrace a new piece of technology, for teachers are resistant to the change, with factors like power cuts and budget making up a huge share of challenge. So we set our selection of the technology based on the 3 prime constraints; low-powered, portable, and low cost. And for these traits, Raspberry Pi steps up as the knight in shining armor.
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READ MORESept. 28, 2016 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
OLE Nepal's venture into open sourcing E-Paath(2-6)
OLE Nepal's pursuit of digitizing educational material up to grade 10 recently reached a major milestone as we completed the development of content for grade 8. Although this is quite the achievement, computer technology is such an ever-evolving field that the content developed for grade 2 to grade 6—using Flash—has become technologically outdated. Consequently, OLE Nepal, in our endeavor of improving education through computer science, decided to make our code base for grade 7-8, developed using HTML5, JS, and CSS, open source and involve students from various fields of computer science into our project to redevelop the content for grade 2-6.
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READ MOREFeb. 12, 2016 | Program Updates | Rabi Karmacharya
Process to get approvals to construct schools damaged by the earthquake
As we are getting ready to start constructing schools damaged by the earthquake in Gorkha district, we thought it’d be helpful to share the official process that we went through to secure all the approvals and paperwork. This might come handy to other organizations looking to build school buildings.