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Open Learning Exchange Nepal (OLE Nepal) is a social benefit organization with a mission to increase access to quality education through the integration of technology. OLE Nepal has been working since 2007 to use innovations in technology to improve education quality and access in rural public schools in the country with the belief that inexpensive computers are in the long-term the most cost-effective medium for increasing access to education for Nepali children. The organization aims to increase the quality of education through the creation of open-source digital learning activities combined with teacher training. OLE Nepal's program is currently running in fifty schools in sixteen districts in various forms in partnership with Nepal Government's Department of Education (DoE) with support from development partners including Danish Government’s Local Grant Authority, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Finnish Government’s Funds for Local Cooperation. OLE Nepal and Nepal's DoE recently started the implementation of OLPC shared-model in fifteen schools in three new districts based on the review of the program and the feedback received from teachers and schools as well as the lessons learned over the past three years. In the shared-model, students from different classes share a set of laptops but each student has one-to-one access to laptops and digital resources when a particular class is using the laptops. In addition to significant cost savings, this model makes is easier for schools and teachers to manage the programs. ==History== In early 2007, Rabi Karmacharya and Bryan Berry, decided to leave their jobs in the technology sector and join force to launch OLE Nepal with the vision of transforming Nepal’s public education system using technology in the classroom teaching-learning process. Prior to that, the two had been part of a group of volunteers who had been meeting and discussing the possibility of leveraging the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) laptops to address the challenges faced by educators in the country. They met and discussed with various educators, teachers, experts, activists, community leaders, donors, and government officials going on to form the Board of Directors, and registering the organization. In the process, they received much support from Mr. Mahabir Pun, who also believed in their common cause. Dr. Saurav Dev Bhatta also joined as one of the founding members when the organization was officially launched in September 2007. OLE Nepal’s mission is to provide freely accessible high-quality interactive teaching-learning materials along with an education-centered digital library that addressed the problems of quality, access, and disparity in education. OLE Nepal signed an agreement with the Government of Nepal to help implement Nepal's pilot of OLPC in 2008 and then carried out a test phase in Bashuki and Bishwamitra Schools. The agreement has been renewed in subsequent years to expand the technology-based education in more schools and grades. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「OLE Nepal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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