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abernard102@gmail.com 2013-02-19

Summary:

"NEH uses open educational resources to provide free and accessible access to education and to information, by partnering with existing community organizations on the local level. The community organizations volunteer to host an NEH Free Education Center; they provide a space and volunteers to run the center. The volunteers moderate the center, keep sign-in sheets and records, stay in communication with NEH to report problems and request additional academic material, and administer evaluations. They also provide community exposure to make sure that the materials reach as many people as possible. NEH provides laptops for the NEH Centers, installed with a comprehensive curriculum in various subjects including math and science. NEH also provides software updates, training and technical support. The software on NEH computers is customizable, and NEH can add new subjects or levels at any time.    Due to the infrastructure of Myanmar (Burma), the offline component of NEH – which is detailed above – is, for now, the most important NEH Program. However, Internet access will become more available in Myanmar (Burma), and NEH would like to expand to other communities around the world with Internet. For these reasons, NEH is currently preparing an online program as well. The online component of NEH will also use exclusively open educational resources, and its goal will be to provide a comprehensive curriculum in all core subjects.  NEH will target individuals under the age of 25. It will also actively seek to establish centers that are easily accessible to minority groups and to people in rural areas. However, NEH maintains a strict policy of non-discrimination, and any person who is interested can make use of an NEH Free Education Center. NEH only works with community organizations who agree that the centers will remain free and accessible to anyone."

Link:

http://www.neweducationhighway.org/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.south oa.oer oa.courseware oa.education oa.neh oa.myanmar

Date tagged:

02/19/2013, 16:02

Date published:

02/19/2013, 11:02