The Future is Offline
Project: The Future is Offline
Country: Global
Partner : Libraries without Borders, KIRON
More than 2 million refugees are at the age of attending tertiary education (between 16 and 24 years old). Most of them attended high school and were forced to drop out of university or vocational training because they had to flee their country. Only 1 in 100 refugees now has access to higher education.
Despite tremendous talent and existing qualifications, young refugees face numerous obstacles when enrolling in universities: language barriers, lack of degree recognition, and financial resources.
Technologies open up learning opportunities through MOOCs. But more than 50% of refugees do not have access to the Internet. In rural areas, only 22% of refugees are connected. And when they are, their connectivity is often very poor.
Project Description
Libraries Without Borders (LWB) and Kiron are partnering to provide offline access to digital learning for refugees.
Providing individual offline access to MOOCs and certificates from the world’s top universities using SD cards.
Equipping collective learning spaces with local servers uploaded with MOOCs:
groups of learners can gather in learning spaces and connect to these servers to access MOOCs.
