With readily available internet connectivity in our homes plus always on access with mobile devices, we overlook that half of the world's population lacks connectivity needed to reach educational materials designed for online delivery. Outside of metropolitan areas of British Columbia 20% of the province are unconnected. We will demonstrate how BCcampus is exploring the Kolibri system from Learning Equality to make its B.C. Open Collection available in an offline-first environments, including interactivity of H5P exercises. Kolibri offers customization to remix with other open materials (e.g. PHET simulations, Khan Academy) plus course management features one might not expect in an offline platform. Beyond a demo, we challenge the idea of OER being only online, discuss scenarios for offline OER (incarcerated, refugee learners), ways this approach could be distributed, and to influence creators to make their content available to the world through the Kolibri Catalog.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Identify the different underserved communities and populations that do not have access to online educational materials or technology.
- Understand how the Kolibri platform enables offline-first access to OER
- Contemplate and contribute to the potential use cases and needs for offline OER.
- Install the Kolibri application to directly experience the offline capability to use BCcampus content as well as more OER available in the Kolibri catalog
- Contribute their own OER content to the Kolibri catalog to make available to more offline first learners worldwide
