A series of two-page newsletters explaining how basic neuroscience discoveries lead to clinical applications. (Click Here for Chronological List)

More information at: http://www.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=brainBriefings_main

The central feature of each Open Learning Exchange is the Billion
Kids Library: a library that contains open and free basic whole-course
educational curricula appropriate for the elementary and secondary
school teachers and students of that particular location. These OLE
sites may be as small as an open-air classroom, or as large as a
nation-state. To help ensure that all library curricula effectively
meet the needs of patrons, each item in the Library can be evaluated by
member-users – both educators and learners - according to a robust and
refined objective standard schema. The OLE evaluation standards balance
objective assessment and subjective experience and are further vetted
automatically and objectively through a process linked to the
characteristics of the members who composed the evaluation. The goal is
to allow library patrons to define for themselves what is useful, and
then help those patrons find Library content that fits their individual
criteria.

Our name has changed from the Office of Indian Education Programs, OIEP, to the Bureau of Indian Education, BIE.

After you have looked over our new site, please take a moment and
tell us if you were able to find the information you were seeking and
provide any comments or recommendations you have to make the site even
better. Click on Contact BIE - Feedback to provide your comments.

The BIE has responsibility for 184 elementary and secondary schools
and dormitories as well as 24 colleges, and our Bureau-operated Haskell
Indian Nations University and Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute.
Our post-secondary institutions, schools and dormitories are located on
63 reservations in 23 states across the United States serving
approximately 60,000 students representing 238 different tribes.

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Xiwasan sutixa’ is Aymara for ‘this is our name’  – and there is a new name in the OLE family: OLE Bolivia. Under the gifted leadership of Yamandu (Yama) Ploskonka, OLE has hit the ground running in this South American country!

While formal incorporation of a national OLE is in progress with recruitment of a national board of directors, Yama has brought together a team of local volunteers to translate the Sugar computer interface used in the XOi computers from One Laptop Per Child (OLPCi) into Aymara, the language spoken by over two million Bolivians. During the weekend of September 13-14 the team worked through a 25-hour-long marathon session on this important project. . A further translation project will allow OLE members to use the Course Development Studio and access the Billion Kids Library in Aymara.

Global literacy is about change management. Here are some change management resources.

We love free stuff.

Below we review some of the best free tools on the market from Audacity for audio editing to Moodle LMS.

More information at: http://www.kineo.com/free-tools.html

A group of elearning open source (free) tools for designing and developing learning solutions.

Welcome to Kineo

We bring fresh thinking and innovation to deliver high quality e-learning that starts with great design and follows through to successful delivery.

We've
delivered over 200 solutions for some of the world's leading
organisations, from 20 minute rapid e-learning modules delivered in
days, to 20 hour custom solutions.  

We're passionate about new
technology and how it can enhance learning and performance. We've got
the design and delivery experience to make things happen fast. We're
committed to helping our clients succeed with their performance and
learning goals.

More information at: http://www.kineo.com/

One Laptop Per Child/South Carolina is a statewide partnership between the South Carolina Department of Education and the non-profit Palmetto Project.

More information at:  http://laptopsc.org/