Sopala is a collaboration of individuals and organizations
focused on innovative uses of OER (Open Educational Resources .)
Sopala means ‘innovations’ in the Dagbani language.
Remote locations without internet and only intermittent power can have the same resources as urban centers with modern technologies.
Learning data from either remote locations or technology-enabled urban locations.
Analyze data to provide applicable enhancements to instruction.
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.
Teacher Professional Development
Learning collaboratives of any size group of teachers.
All content and management software is openly licensed/open source.
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 = content assessed in any classroom equally with or without internet access.
