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OERs: Peru
Paola · Lima (Peru) · Jun 18th, 2007 3:23 am · 17 votes · no comments made
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The Peruvian system of public education provides three distinct levels of instruction:
- Initial - Three years (ages 3-5)
- Primary - Six years (ages 6-11)
- Secondary - Five years (ages 12-16)
However, not every child has access to all three levels of education. Especially for children living in remote villages, the closest school may be so far away that attendance is not possible. Many children have to walk two or three hours each way to and from school. Some children in the primary and secondary grades will stay during the week with a family in the town where the school is located, returning to their home only on the week-ends. Besides the public schools, there are many private schools, particularly in the larger cities. The high cost of enrolling in many private schools makes them inaccessible to large numbers of Peruvian children. In Private schools students have access to computer labs, libraries and language courses.
In Rural schools there are not enough desks. Clusters of students sit on stones placed around an old wooden table. Text books are scarce. In some classes only the teacher has a book. The teacher dictates from his or her text while the students take notes. Many of the students have only the most basic school supplies, lacking even necessities. The poorest families have difficulty obtaining a notebook and a pen or pencil for each of their children. In these schools there are no computers, no calculators, no well-stocked library. The teachers use a blackboard and chalk--and maybe a text--and endeavor to lead their poor but eager students to knowledge. Courses offered are basic. Teachers must deal with several youngsters who come from homes where neither parent can read or write and are not able to speak Spanish, but only native dialects.
OER Commons has been presented in The Open Education Project Clinic session. OER Commons is a comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues’ course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting today’s classrooms.
However OERs based projects will work with rural schools in Peru?. Cultura Libre is going to explore the following issues relating to how OERs enhances teaching and It will also explore how OERs enriches the learning environment of students from rural and isolated communities, especially in the following areas:
- Teachers, students and parents engagement and involvement.
- Locally relevant and curated works (text, imagen, audio, video).
- How to will provide training for rural teachers, local activists and content creators.
Here some interesting projects from Peru:
* INFOLECTOR: An integrated system to blind people
This project provide access to learning materials to blind students. INFOLECTOR is a initiative of a group of blind developers and activists from Peru.
http://www.infolector.net/
* InfoAndina
InfoAndina is the Latin American node of Mountain Forum, which is hosted at the International Potato Center (CIP) in Lima, Peru. InfoAndina is also the information network of the Consortium of Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion (CONDESAN), also hosted by CIP since 1997.
http://www.infoandina.org/
* The Agrarian Information System (SIA)
SIA Project was conceived to facilitate the flow of information on gate openings and closings but also to improve the collective efficiency of the 6,000 farmers in the valley by making basic and essential information available to them via the Internet.
http://www.huaral.org/
*GECO: A knowledge management system to rural mining.
GECO provides many sources of information to rural mine workers from Peru.
http://geco.mineroartesanal.com/
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