OLE Nepal recently signed an agreement with the British Council to host ‘Learn English Kids (LE Kids)’ interactive software in the E-Pustakalaya. LE Kids teaches fundamentals of the English language to children and adults through the use of audio visual effects and flash animations.  In this regard, it is similar to OLE Nepal’s E-Paath activities, [...]

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On 4th and 5th February 2011 OLE Nepal organised a writer’s workshop to create Young Adult (YA) novels for Nepali youths. The two day workshop took place in Nagarkot Farmhouse, Nagarkot and had twenty-one participants. The workshop was facilitated and moderated by OLE Nepal’s E-Pustakalaya advisers Churamani Bandhu, Dhurva Ghimire, Geeta Keshary, Hiranya Kumari Pathak, [...]

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Figure 1: Gyanodaya Madhyamik Vidhyalaya, Lete, Mustang Mr. Ananta Raj Acharya, the principal of Gyanodaya Madhyamik Vidhyalaya in Lete, Mustang, is an accomplished educationist. In his 22 year long tenure at the same school, he has had many success stories under his belt. He managed to replace an old school building with a new grand [...]

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OLE Nepal has started an ambitious project to create content relevant to Young Adult (YA) in Nepali literature. Over the span of two years we spent collecting and archiving work of Nepali literature, we realized that there was a real dearth of literary materials for YAs between the ages of eleven and eighteen. After a [...]

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The E-Pustakalaya team met with the E-Pustakalaya Advisory Panel for the second time on July 12, 2010. Some very interesting ideas transpired. On the issue of copyright, E-Pustakalaya was advised to allow exclusive licenses according to the wishes of authors and publishers apart from the general creative commons license E-Pustakalaya uses for materials already available [...]

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OLE Nepal’s newsletter for May-Jun is now available. The newsletter intends to keep its readers uptodate on the organisation and its activities. The full newsletter can be accessed at: http://www.olenepal.org/ole_newsletter/OLENepalMayJun_10.pdf If you wish to subscribe to the newsletter, please email newsletter@olenepal.org.

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A two-day curriculum review workshop was held with officials from the Government of Nepal’s Curriculum Development Centre (CDC) at the International Club, Sanepa on June 11 and 12. The agenda for the workshop was to a) follow-up from an earlier discussion in February over creating detailed courses for the various subjects in each of the [...]

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