FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC
Building equity in education
Mission
Learning Equality is committed to enabling every person in the world to realize their right to a quality education, by supporting the creation, adaptation and distribution of open educational resources, and creating supportive tools for innovative pedagogy.
Ruling year
2014
Principal Officer
Jamie Alexandre
Main address
9700 Gilman Dr PMB 323
La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
EIN
46-2676188
NTEE code
Educational Services and Schools - Other (B90)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
1 in 3 children around the world lack access to a quality basic education. Education technology has the potential to help achieve universal access to quality education, with more quality, free, open educational resources online than ever before. But - most ed tech relies on the internet, and half the world is still offline. Compounding the inequity, in low-income countries, a full 85% of the populations is disconnected.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Kolibri
Kolibri is Learning Equality's open-source educational platform and toolkit designed for low-resource communities. Kolibri is built to run on a lightweight local server, but with a growing library of open educational resources and the tools to adapt them to the local curriculum.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of new known Kolibri installations via telemetry
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Kolibri
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The number of users per installation can vary greatly. We only receive information about installations when offline Kolibris connect to the Internet.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We believe education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty and opening the door to human flourishing. Learners anywhere - online or offline - have the right to a quality education.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We build tools to catalyze effective learning in disconnected and low-resource environments:
- open source software that is free, easy to use, and adaptable
- a diverse content library with global and local content, with support for aligning to national standards
- compatibility with low-cost and legacy hardware, including solar-powered devices
- support for educators through training of trainers and a toolkit of guiding resources
We work with mission-aligned organizations to help them amplify their educational impact through our suite of open products and a variety of activities:
- training of trainers around integration of ed tech into classroom practice
- providing guidance around hardware setup, content selection, and implementation model
- fostering a broad community of practice to share learnings
- convening stakeholders and conducting research to further the fields
- distributing seed funding through our grants program to support pilot initiatives
- sponsoring content production to fill in gaps in digital curricula
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Our team is uniquely comprised of:
- former teachers and teacher training professionals
- international development experts
- a strong full-stack engineering team
- designers with a background in human-centered design
- accessibility, educational game development, and data science professionals
- founders with PhD and research backgrounds in cognitive science and other fields
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We're achieving scale through a combination of grassroots adoption and strategic partnerships. Over 6 million learners in more than 200 countries and territories have used Learning Equality's educational platforms.
Our collaborators have observed improved learning outcomes in the communities in which they work. Read about the studies conducted in places such as Guatemala, India, and Cameroon below.
IMPROVED MATH SKILLS IN GUATEMALA
Assessing the use of technology and Khan Academy to improve educational outcomes in Sacatepéquez, Guatemala
TRANSFORMING EDUCATION IN CAMEROON
Preliminary results from a study carried out in Cameroon on the impact of Khan Academy on Children's academic achievement and cognitive abilities
INCENTIVES FOR EFFORT OR OUTPUTS?
A field experiment to improve student performance in India
CONNECTED EDUCATION
Vodafone Foundation's work towards Quality Education, a UN Sustainable Development Goal
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, The people we serve tell us they find data collection burdensome
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC
Board of directorsas of 11/27/2023
Jamie Alexandre
Marito Garcia
Nathan Gloier
June Sugiyama
Sarah Loos
Terry Nathan
Jamie Alexandre
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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