Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal has been working on its digital library, E-Pustakalaya, since summer 2008. Several accomplishments have been made and E-Pustakalaya (www.pustakalaya.org) has now been launched publicly with some basic features and content; more content as well as features will be added in the future. The Nepal Library Foundation (NLF), Canada, who assist [...]

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OLE Nepal organized a three day workshop on December 23-25, 2008 to prepare the teacher training manual for the next round of OLPC laptop deployment planned for April 2009. The workshop participants included experts from the National Center for Education Development (NCED) – Nepal Government’s teacher training body under the Ministry of Education, as well [...]

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One of the things that initially attracted me to OLPC was that we Nepalis could it make it our own. So often ideas and initiatives that come from the West are pre-packaged and controlled. With XO’s we can localize the Sugar interface, develop activities that accord to our needs and culture, and come up with [...]

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From left to Right: Om, Kamana, Upaya, Doug, Narendra, Dev, Aayush, Biplab, Sudaya, Surendra, Ties, Dr. Bhatta, Trinarayan, Rajeev, Bryan, Ram and Sulochan. Nepal was declared a Federal Democratic Republic last night at 11:20 pm. We celebrate at office today, celebrations still going on while I write this post.

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In his comprehensive overview of our experience so far, Rabi had mentioned that Bashuki’s School Management (SMC) Committee and teachers had jointly decided to wait for one week after the project launch before allowing students to take the laptops home even though our preference was to let the chidren take the laptops home right away. Their [...]

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We have just completed Part II of our teacher preparation program. The complete teacher training consisted of two segments: Part I) A 4 day intensive residential, out-of-school training that focuses on integrating digitial educational materials and ICT-based teaching approaches in the regular classroom instruction process. This was completed on April 1, 2008. An earlier blog [...]

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Saurav Dev Bhatta Introduction We just completed an orientation program for parents and stakeholders at Bishwamitra Ganesh Lower Secondary School  yesterday (April 21).  A similar program was held at Bashuki Lower Secondary School last Thursday (April 17).  The objective of these programs was to give the parents and other stakeholders in these test schools an [...]

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