Learning Equality

Building equity in education to transform lives

Technologies
python, javascript, django, vue.js
Topics
education, distributed databases, offline, learning
Building equity in education to transform lives
Learning Equality is an education technology nonprofit that develops and maintains Kolibri, an adaptable set of open solutions specially designed to support teaching and learning with technology but without the Internet for the half of the world that still lacks access to connectivity. Kolibri is centered around an offline-first learning platform that runs on a variety of low-cost and legacy devices. It is complemented by a curricular tool, a library of open educational materials, and a toolkit of resources to support training and implementation. These tools are open and available in a variety of languages, to better support learners and educators globally. As a community-driven nonprofit, Learning Equality works closely to co-design Kolibri with a core network of collaborators, including national NGOs, UN agencies, government, and corporate partners. We also adopt a needs-based approach, constantly gathering insights from our community to inform the development of our tools. Through its do-it-yourself adoption model and strategic collaborations, Kolibri has reached learners and educators in more than 220 countries and territories since its launch in 2017. Given our offline access and distribution model, we learn about usage of Kolibri through a combination of telemetry ping backs of high level, aggregate, anonymized statistics, data from partners, and use of our Kolibri Data Portal. Since instances of Kolibri never need to connect to the Internet to be used, we do not know about usage across every instance, which is why this is an informed estimate from years of data.
2024 Program

Successful Projects

Contributor
Divyansh_Agarwal
Mentor
Richard Tibbles, José L. Redrejo
Organization
Learning Equality
Integrate Bloom Library into Kolibri ecosystem
The project aims to significantly enhance the educational resources available in Kolibri by integrating the Bloom Library's interactive books, which...
Contributor
thesujai
Mentor
Richard Tibbles, Samson Akol
Organization
Learning Equality
Distributed Error Reporting
This project focuses on Distributed Error Reporting in Kolibri Learning Platform. Kolibri mostly focuses on offline access to education where...
Contributor
Baby_Elias
Mentor
Radina Matic, Michaela Robosova
Organization
Learning Equality
Implement a Prototype of an Accessible Sortable Table
The Kolibri Design System contains resources for designers and developers building Kolibri products. With inclusivity at the heart of Learning...
Contributor
Kshitij Thareja
Mentor
Alex Velez, Blaine
Organization
Learning Equality
Integrating visual testing with Kolibri Design System’s CI
This project aims to integrate visual testing into the Kolibri Design System's (KDS) CI workflows to streamline the validation process for UI...