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One Laptop per Child

Barbara Barry, Director of Learning, OLPC FoundationOLPC Middle East

Evaluation Workshop - Ministry of Education - Buenos Aires, Ar

December 15, 2010

The Challenge of Evaluating Learning

M & E Advocacy

New methods & researchAdvise on study design

5 OLPC principles

child ownership low agessaturationconnectivityfree & open source

2 million childrenin40 countries

Open source

How can evaluation follow the child?Over a lifetime?

School Community Home

Learning

Individua

Groups

Learning System

XOs Journey to Gaza & West Bank

Gaza City

Rafah

Debugging

Special Needs -> Personalization

Thank you!

Barbara Barry, Director of LearningOLPC Foundation, OLPC Middle Eastbarbara@laptop.org

Claudia Urrea, Director of LearningOLPC Association, OLPC Latin Americaclaudia@laptop.org