SABIER supports the use of publicly licensed educational content to empower educators and learners around the world. In the end, this program will save school systems up to $30 billion a year by giving instructors resources that can be modified to meet the requirements of various students. Among their initiatives are teacher professional development, multilingual educational resource development, and literacy development for marginalized communities. To learn more about SABIER’s efforts to improve education globally. 

 

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Here’s an example – of a book translated from English to isiXhosa using AI and edited by Nomvuyo Mgoqi

Students from Northern Ghana

 

Learning data from either remote locations or technology-enabled urban locations.

 

  A comprehension quiz on a book in the student’s mother tongue, Dagbani. The school has no internet access. Students read the book and take the quiz via MoodleBox and their WIFI devices.

A book created from an assignment given to the students by their teacher. None of the student’s parents have phones or TVs. Internet is not available at the school. Students took the pictures with their WIFI devices and added captions using MoodleBox in their classroom.

Teacher Professional Development

Learning collaboratives of any size group of teachers.

All content and management software is openly licensed/open source.

https://youtu.be/Ul0Qm8QBgZI?si=etA5X_B22271KQx7

 

These girls are in a school in the Northern Region of Ghana. The book is in the Dagbani language, their mother tongue, The book was downloaded from African Storybook and then uploaded to the MoodleBox in their classroom by their teacher. Internet access is not available in this school. Print books in Dagbani are rare. Digital books make literacy in their mother tongue possible.

MoodleBox  = Moodle + Raspberry Pi 

  a small box that brings Moodle

to the whole class without internet.

MoodleBox  + Kiwix = key websites accessed even when the internet is down.

MoodleBox  + Kolibri = OER content assessed in any classroom equally with or without internet access. 

Our Team

Our team is an international group of professionals with extensive careers in teaching and learning who have previously worked together successfully:

Dan McGuire,  (US) – Executive Director of SABIER, OER support for teachers; Team Lead

 Nicolas Martignoni (Switzerland) – Founder of  MoodleBox;

Steve Miley – (US) – Project Manager / Software and IT Architect;

Gerald Henzinger (Austria) Co-founder and Managing Partner think modular Gmbh

  Marcus Green – (UK), Moodle developer; Learning design

Sanja Cancar (Austria) – Social innovation, cooperation, and tool design.

 Jon Fila – (US) AI leveraging teacher/consultant; teacher professional development, Moodle course design

 Peter Amoabil – (Ghana) Founder of Rural Literacy Solutions; teacher professional development

 Nomvuyo Mgoqi – (South Africa.) Founder of Khulisani Child Development Academy; Research and teacher professional development

Paul Spiesberger (Austria) TU Wien – Chair ICT4D.at. Research, software development, and project management

Stephane Coillet-Matillon (Switzerland) CEO and co-founder Kiwix

Here’s the review of our pilot project.

    SOPALA is currently in development. If you’d like  to join or support our work,   contact dan@sabier.org

Contribute to SABIER’s efforts to help them achieve their goal of transforming education worldwide. Contributions will support the growth of initiatives like the OERtist Tool, which was launched in 2023 and uses open educational resources (OER) to empower teachers and students. Your kindness makes it possible to produce easily readable, flexible information that promotes educational equity and gives educators the resources they need to be successful. Find out more about SABIER’s transformative programs and donate today to make a difference. visit make a donation.                                                                         Donate

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