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Sources

  1. RACHEL project: http://dev.worldpossible.org/cgi/rachelmods.pl?filter_lang=en

  2. I've contacted Pratham Storyweaver project and they're sharing their content too : stories for kids in various Indian languages. They have a brilliant collection and are giving away collections of print books right now by the way.

  3. Kiwix : http://www.kiwix.org/

  4. http://www.educational-freeware.com/

  5. Arvind Gupta Toys from Trash & related resources : http://arvindguptatoys.com/ and youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT7EcU7rC44DiS3RkfZzZMg

  6. Khan Academy in Hindi : https://hi.khanacademy.org (have to check on the licensing)

  7. NIOS study material : http://www.nios.ac.in

  8. NPTEL e-learning college-level courses by MHRD : http://www.nptel.ac.in/

Initial mailer

Hello friends,

I'm working on a project to gather digital offline educational content to put in schools and learning spaces. And aiming to use some tech to make it as easy as sharing a season of your favourite TV show.

Medium would be text, images, audio, video, interactive programs and all combined.

Size limit : 1TB for now but practically speaking the amount of MBs / GBs is no issue.

Approach: I'm following Sugata Mitra's hole-in-the-wall project's philosophy regarding how learners (students and teachers) will handle it. And I'm not looking for linkages with curriculum, rather the aim is for this 'bhandaar' of material to be like a reference library, to be used outside of regular classroom activities, to be a passive resource that is available whenever curiosity strikes.

Why not do over internet only : A common sequence of events happens when you make internet available at a school : somebody starts browsing objectionable material, a teacher finds out after the entire student body already knows, there is a furore and then internet is cut off to the students and is only allowed for certain people. Besides, video streaming over internet on all computers at the same time is a costly affair : the Jio pack will get used up in no time. But if you make it all available offline and over the local LAN/intranet, with carefully curated content, then many things become possible.

Licensing : Must be shared under creative commons, copyleft, free-to-share etc. The usage of the content will be in sharealike, non-commercial way, so the material must be free to use and copy non-commercially. We could also reach out individually and get special permission from certain sources.

Content: Looking for resources that meet the needs of Indian learners : Indian language content will be wonderful but is not a limitation, remembering how Sugata Mitra's test subjects also learnt a language along with learning the subject on their own. Right now I'm just gathering everything possible.

Listing the sources I'm already looking at, so you can point me to others:

  1. RACHEL project: http://dev.worldpossible.org/cgi/rachelmods.pl?filter_lang=en

  2. I've contacted Pratham Storyweaver project and they're sharing their content too : stories for kids in various Indian languages. They have a brilliant collection and are giving away collections of print books right now by the way.

  3. Kiwix : http://www.kiwix.org/

  4. http://www.educational-freeware.com/

  5. Arvind Gupta Toys from Trash & related resources : http://arvindguptatoys.com/ and youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT7EcU7rC44DiS3RkfZzZMg

  6. Khan Academy in Hindi : https://hi.khanacademy.org (have to check on the licensing)

  7. NIOS study material : http://www.nios.ac.in

  8. NPTEL e-learning college-level courses by MHRD : http://www.nptel.ac.in/

Chances are that most of the big fish that'll come to your mind are covered under one of the above collections. So I'm mainly looking for India-specific or Indian-language content now. Let me know if you have a lead!

And get in touch if you would like to get involved : Right now I'm just in beginning stage of the project and there's a lot to do including curating, getting funding, finding tech and equipment partners, connecting with NGOs and institutions etc. Are there others doing this exact same thing and I should just join them? Would you like to add your org's resources to this mix? Got a cool program that can help? Let me know! <3

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