The Open Learning Exchange (OLE) is committed to ensuring that everyone, especially children, has access to a high quality basic education. We work with nation-based entrepreneurs, educators, and practitioners committed to promoting highly effective and affordable learning systems that can benefit all of their people. We believe this will lead to more productive lives, communities, and nations, and to the possibility of a peaceful world.
OLE’s mission is to ensure learning for all, not only universal basic literacy and numeracy, but also vital knowledge and skills acquisition in the areas of health, nutrition, community development. Since 2007, OLE International has helped establish Open Learning Communities for children, adolescents, and young adults, including those whose lives have been disrupted by violent conflicts. Today there are OLE affiliates in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America.
Personalized Learning And Networked Enabled Teams (Planet) is a multilingual learning system and library with thousands of educational resources including books, videos, and educational games. The system also includes software tools for content and student management, student evaluation and monitoring, and Courses creation.
At the core, Planet is a repository of free, open access, and public domain resources designed to benefit literate and preliterate, young and old, and novice and expert learners of all ages. Resources of all kinds (literature, health, science, math, etc.), in various languages (English, Somali, Swahili, Arabic, Spanish, etc.), and in various formats (text, audio, video) are continually being added to Planet.
The Planet system exists in the cloud but it can also be configured to run locally without the need for internet connectivity making it a viable solution for remote locations where internet connectivity is unreliable or nonexistent. Planet facilitates frequent assessments of learners, leaders, and administrators. It also promotes the evaluation and effectiveness of the learning resources. Robust usage feedback metrics make Planet a powerful tool for those overseeing monitoring and evaluation of the education system.
Under the Planet system, there are two types of structures: Nations and Communities.
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Nations
- Nations always exist in the cloud and require an internet connection to access.
- Each Nation serves as a central repository for the Community or a group of communities that it serves.
- Different Nations cannot connect to each other.
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Communities
- A Community is a local installation of the Planet system.
- A Community does not require an internet to access.
- Users can connect to a Community using any device having a web browser like tablet, computer, etc. The connection is established via a router through a locally configured intranet.
- Each Community connects periodically to a Nation via internet in order to receive new materials and to upload user metrics.
- A Community is not able to connect to other Communities.
The nations may store thousands of Resources in many formats and languages. Unique collections of Resources can be selected and downloaded into each Community from the Nation. This gives a Learner a personalized approach to his or her education.
To be able to use PLANET you need to be part of the system. First thing you will see on PLANET is Login page. To learn more about becoming part of PLANET and using it please follow the link
When you are inside PLANET you will see different features available.
The list of features along with their explanation is given below.
The Library is home to the community's collection of media and other resources. Click here to learn more about Library.
The Courses page is where you can create and join a variety of different courses where you can learn many different topics. Click here to learn more about Courses.
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Surveys is where you can create your survey and send it to others. Click here to learn more about Surveys.
Here you will be able to create teams to communicate with them, offer courses, and organize members. Click here to learn more about Teams
Meetups is where you can coordinate meetups by creating them, joining them and more! Click here to learn more about Meetups.
News is where you can view any posts made by any users. Click here to learn more about News.
The Library is home to the community's collection of media and other resources. Click here to learn more about Achievements.
Throughout planet, you will be able to give feedback on planet, courses, and more. Click here to learn more about Feedback.
The Manager role comes with another set of administrative features, including viewing reports, syncing the community with the nation, and performing upgrades on the community. Click here to learn more.