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Bookshare - accessible eBooks
- works with content providers to put content in accessible formats (DAISY and epub3).
- meets regulatory or project requirements for accessibility
- accommodates a range of reading and print accessibility requirements
- open source ≠ online, open source provides deliver, printing, logistics flexibility

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Inequality in educational experience - bridging the digital divide.
How to take advantage of high quality content across the digital divide.
- KA Lite  - Kahn  Academy offline
- Focus on tech components
- work with content partners and with implementing orgs
Up next - Kolibri - overcoming infrastructure barriers, locally aligned content, effective pedagogy
- while students are end users, it's important to be effective and attractive for intermediate users/implementers
What are the major infrastructure barriers you face in your work?

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Innovative publishing model - Story Weaver
- Open source platform, you can read and download for free, you can create your own versions.
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- 59 crowdsourced versions of It's All the Cat's Fault
- if we had to reach all the 300 million childred?  how do we get to every language and every child.  We have to think outside of the box
- escapes the economy of scale problems of printing and keeping in print in smaller languages/markets
- 40 stories in Kora (a spoken language) written using the script of the language used in those schools (state language)

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- provides low cost tablet (~$50), works offline, 24GB storage

- Learn Cloud "Pinterest for Education"   - a tool for teacher creation and curation for content that will be pre-loaded on the tablet.

- Challenge: cultural relevance. ex indigenous education in Canada - endangered languages - the materials don't exist in the Learn Cloud library of existing content.  You can't select culturally relevant materials if none exist in the corpus.

- content is user-generated or user created and uploaded, partners choose the content to go in a tablet.

- looking forward to an app structure, but not yet.

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Roopa Pai and Kaveri Gopalakrishnan create magic in this wonderful story for children! Seamlessly weaving family, personal and national histories, mathematics and good old fashioned sleuthing, the result is a book that's sure to charm readers young and old. You can read this story in English and 9 Indic Languages on www.storyweaver.org.in here: http://bit.ly/297giEa Book development supported by Oracle.

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Benetech --Terry Jenna, International Program Manager, Global Literacy   

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Benetech --Terry Jenna, International Program Manager, Global Literacy   

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Prior to joining Benetech, Terry Jenna, Benetech’s International Program Manager, worked in over 60 countries over the course of three decades, opening markets, introducing ideas, and advocating for change in developing, emerging, and industrialized Asia. She managed staff in 22 nations, and worked for a wide range of enterprises, including UNICEF, where she was the youngest country-level director at age 32. As a consultant, she worked with USAID, DFID, AUSAID, and the European Union among many other multilateral clients. Terry is passionate about serving people with disabilities, as she has a print disability herself. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts from the University of San Diego and a Master’s Degree in Educational Psychology and Counselling from the University of the Pacific and a second Master’s Degree in Public Health from Tulane University. In addition, she held a Citicorp Business Fellowship in the School of Management at the University of Hong Kong.

Powerpoint here.

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Pratham Books' Storyweaver - Purvi Shah, Head-Digital Projects at Pratham Books

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Pratham Books' Storyweaver - Purvi Shah, Head-Digital Projects at Pratham Books

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Purvi Shah leads all the Digital Projects at Pratham Books. In her 10 year long association with the organization she has handled various functions including branding, strategy and new initiatives. She has led Pratham Books’ foray into digital products. Her current work focuses on managing two platforms – StoryWeaver (www.storyweaver.org.in), an open source digital repository of multilingual stories for children and Donate – a – Book (www.donateabook.org.in), a unique crowd-funding platform that bridges the gap between those who need books and those who want to help provide books for children.

Powerpoint here. Video here.

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The Rumie Initiative - Deanna Del Vecchio, LearnCloud Community Manager 

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The Rumie Initiative - Deanna Del Vecchio, LearnCloud Community Manager 

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Deanna Del Vecchio works with The Rumie Initiative, a non-profit that makes access to free digital education possible for underserved communities worldwide. Her career in education has included classroom teaching from primary to post-secondary, community-based learning, and teacher training. She draws on her passion for environmental issues and the arts to engage young people in social change. Deanna has led community projects and presented at conferences in North America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and Africa; and sat on a committee of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. A Ph.D. candidate in Education at the University of Toronto, Deanna holds a Master’s degree in Art Education from Concordia University in Montreal, and an undergraduate degree in Geography and Biology from the University of British Columbia.

Powerpoint here.

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Learning Equality -Elizabeth Vu, Implementations Lead

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Learning Equality -Elizabeth Vu, Implementations Lead

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Learning Equality builds educational technology solutions that leverage open-licensed content and low-cost hardware to enable a broad range of NGOs, schools, governments, and individuals to implement programs that improve educational outcomes in their communities. Learning Equality focuses on technology solutions which are optimized to work in areas where Internet access is lacking or costly. Elizabeth Vu is the Implementations Lead for Learning Equality and supports the use of KA Lite, an offline version of Khan Academy, in over 160 countries. Based on feedback from KA Lite users, the Learning Equality team is actively developing Kolibri, their next generation platform which allows for curriculum alignment of a broader set of content.

Powerpoint here.

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Creative Commons - Meredith Jacob, Assistant Director for Academic Programs (PIJIP)

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Creative Commons - Meredith Jacob, Assistant Director for Academic Programs (PIJIP)

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Meredith Jacob serves as the Assistant Director for Academic Programs at the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) at American University Washington College of Law. Her work includes academic research, student advising, and public interest intellectual property advocacy. Currently her work includes research and advocacy focused on: open access to federally funded research and education materials; supporting the adoption and creation of open educational resources (OER); and promoting flexible limitations and exceptions to copyright law. Meredith is the legal team co-lead for Creative Commons United States, the U.S. affiliate of Creative Commons, Inc., and a project at PIJIP.

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U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs - Jennryn Wetzler
Jennryn works in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), on a design team called the Collaboratory. The Collaboratory designs, pilots and spreads new approaches to educational and cultural diplomacy initiatives. A returned Peace Corps Niger volunteer with a background in development, Jennryn is thrilled to work in the field of cross-cultural exchanges. She focuses on human centered design, facilitation, and low-bandwidth education using open educational resources (OER) in sub-Saharan Africa.

Norwegian Digital Learning Arena - Christer Gundersen
Christer Gundersen works as the CTO for the Norwegian digital learning arena(NDLA). NDLA develops open educational resources for upper secondary schools in Norway. In 2014 Christer founded the Maarifa Initiative which conducted pilot projects in Uganda and Ethiopia, where the objective was to translate and re-contextualize digital learning resources to local languages.