Offline Squared: Project-based learning with Kolibri

The Problem

Nearly 40% of the world cannot access the internet, and for learners in these areas, there are also fewer opportunities to participate in technology-enabled, project-based learning approaches. Resource-constrained learning environments often have inaccessible hands-on tools or educator support materials to guide facilitation or adaptation of project-based activities.

The Solution

Kolibri is Learning Equality's end-to-end suite of open-source tools, content, and do-it-yourself support materials, designed specifically for offline-first teaching and learning in an organic adoption model. Offline Squared expands Kolibri to enable the use of technology for project-based learning to build skills and knowledge acquisition facilitated through real-life experiences, all in low-resource, low-connectivity learning environments in a way that is collaborative, problem-based, and inquiry-based. It includes new facilitator materials with teacher lesson plans and training materials aimed at building educator capacity and confidence, leverages existing open educational resources and creates new ones focused on project-based learning, foundational skills, and social-emotional learning, particularly to be contextualized to specific localities.

Stats

Offline Squared has reached over 1,000 students and teachers through the Flying Colors program.