OLPC of no use in learning: study

Written by: Sam VargheseThe deployment of laptops in Peru by the One Laptop Per Child project failed because the organisation did not bother to find out if conditions were optimal for such a deployment before it went in.

This is the only conclusion one can draw from the latest attempt by the organisation to spin its failure as being caused by external factors. Nearly three months after a detailed

Last week, a number of technology publications reported on a study about the deployment of OLPC laptops in Peru, the largest such rollout in the history of the project.

I was in the Peace Corps in Cape Verde as an ICT volunteer from 2006 to 2008, and while I was there, the One Laptop Per Child project came on my radar and I became pretty enamored of the prospect of bringing some XOs to the country, or at least raising awareness of the idea within the government.

The One Laptop Per Child project announced Friday that it has teamed up with semiconductor manufacturer Marvell to offer kids in developing nations a computer for under $100. This time, the project will offer Marvell's Moby tablet computer.

Education is quickly moving online, but we haven’t seen all that many studies that actually look into the effectiveness of these new forms of online learning. To see how its program performed, the language learning service Duolingo, founded by CAPTCHA inventor Luis von Ahn, commissioned a study (PDF)into the effectiveness of its program.

Malcolm Turnbull's call for a Productivity Commission cost-benefit study of the National Broadband Network was a waste of money, and Mr Turnbull was unlikely to support the roll-out even if such a report was positive, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says.

The East African Community and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency have both signed partnerships with the One Laptop per Child initiative to bring laptops to students...

OLPC announces XO-HS for high school students.

Hello my name is Marcus. I'm 16 year's old And I am studying Electrical Science. I'm somewhat a new linux user. Been using ubuntu for some time and linux mint. But always went back to windows off some reasons i can' not explain because I don't know why .. heh .. On my spare time I'm programming. Currently learning C, and sooner or later going over to C++.