Overview
Nepal has a strong team preparing curriculum materials and teacher training for pilot deployments of OLPC. This is quite independent of the proposal here for use of the same XO computers in support of One Laptop Per Teacher. The connection is simply that achieving mass rollout of OLPT may provide a stepping stone for mass rollout of OLPC by tackling infrastructure issues as early as possible while incidentally assisting in familiarization of teachers.
Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal
Links and details for OLE NepalMission and people
Deployment Guide
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Technical Details Note requirement for 10-15A of mains power for 100 laptops, ie 2-3 kW and current use of AC power racks while multi-channel charger not yet available. See also OLE blog on power racks.Notes from Nepal’s OLPC Deployments. Still unable to follow immersion saturation model - only 1-2 periods per week of laptop use.tt
Evaluation study (Uttam Sharma).
OLPC model (Dr Saurav Dev Bhatta). Summary with broken link to full.
Education and ICT in Nepal
introductionOLPC Nepal
Bloghad a more lively tone.
Number crunchingwith the right spirit. (Shankar Pokharel)
Deployment planning with the right spirit. (Shankar Pokharel)Concept Paper
Department of Education lists an OLPC concept paper in nepali and english (link broken). This html from google cache appears to be the same document, title Concept Paper on Using Digitalized Curriculum and OLPC in Nepal - local copy.
Library
Backend and contents of library used in OLPC pilots should obviously also be used for any OLPT rollout with postal email instead of internet distribution.
Working on the Library. Links to 3 backend repositories under consideration. Says no OLPC library backend as of beginning of 2008. Critical for postal email updates to library.
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