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Advancing OL3C's ShellBook Open Library Project

Submitted by jmanley on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 12:21

 

Gary Simons
Gary Simons
MAF-Learning Technologies hosted a 2-day review meeting for OL3C’s ShellBook Open Library Project. Gary Simons and Joan Spanne of SIL’s Dallas, Texas office met with MAF-LT Technology Team manager Peter Nye, as well as Jay Clark, Elliot Dawson and Grace Wadholm, September 21-22 on MAF’s Nampa, Idaho campus.

 

 

Joan Spanne
Joan Spanne
The meeting reviewed MAF-LT’s recommendations for advancing the Open Library Project by answering two questions. Do the recommendations meet the Library project’s needs, and what technical differences between project partners require resolution? Click here to read MAF-LT’s entire set of recommendations.

 

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OL3C Project Update

Submitted by jclark on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 12:47

In mid-2010, we at MAF-LT began participating in the Open Library for Local Learning Communities (OL3C) project to create an online library website. The primary goal of the OL3C online library is to facilitate the localization of digital resources into the languages of left-out people groups. See this post for more details about the project.

OL3C LogoAs the OL3C online library project kicked off in August, 2010, the OL3C Consortium asked us to research the feasibility of such a library and determine how it should be implemented. For the next several months, MAF-LT team members Peter Nye and Elliot Dawson pored over the OL3C Consortium’s requirements for the online library. They soon recommended two changes to the Consortium’s plan.

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Open Library for Local Learning Communities

Submitted by mholman on Mon, 08/09/2010 - 14:43

The Open Library for Local Learning Communities (OL3C) is a large project that MAFLT has been asked to take a major role in by Wycliffe / SIL (Gary Simons, Chief Research Officer), Shell books (Mike Trainum, CEO), and ARCA Associates (Peter Clark, CEO). The purpose of the project is to facilitate the development and distribution of SALT, LIGHT, and Multilingual Learning Resources for limited literate education needs around the world. Several documents and audio sessions are attached to explain the project by the key initiators from Wycliffe and ARCA and Shellbooks.

The first attached document #1 gives an introduction to the OL3C project with an early initial proposal. By the end of the three year project the following four outcomes are expected:

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