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FLASH: 2 new versions of RACHEL released!

 

Highlights:

  • Besides a new RACHEL server version for Windows, a new RACHEL-Pi version running from a green, low-power, very small and affordable Raspberry Pi computer has been released. A Plug and Play solution for easy on-the-ground deployment and maintenance.
  • Whole new Khan Academy section, rebuilt from the ground up. The latest Math and Science lectures video lectures organized in a new and very friendly navigation model.
  • Now supporting video playback also on Apple iOS mobile devices, like the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
  • The Latest versions of the Hesperian Health Information publications: http://hesperian.org/books-and-resources/ . Including many new publications.
  • More than 30 new high quality and curated Textbooks and Publications for K to 12 students from ck12.org.
  • Now featuring full text search of the whole RACHEL content. Students have available a very fast search engine as part of RACHEL, enabling quick content lookups across the large pool of educational content in a RACHEL server.

 

Read in mode detail about the RACHEL Initiative, and see an online sample of its educational content HERE.

Learn How to Download and Use a RACHEL USB compact version. 

 

World Possible in the News

 - Read the BBC piece about RACHEL servers supplementing UConnect's work in Uganda:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18956031 

 - The Daily News in Tanzania publishes a front page article on the RACHEL server at a rural school:  http://www.dailynews.co.tz/home/?n=20846 


  About World Possible 

World Possible is a nonprofit organization dedicated to spreading access to educational resources in communities lacking Internet.  At World Possible, we believe access to knowledge is a fundamental human right.  Through World Possible's RACHEL server, we are providing communities offline copies of the finest open source education materials available.  This enables communities with access to computers, but no access to internet, an avenue by which they can have a library of educational and reference materials in a pseudo-internet experience. 

 

Inspired by the motivation and dedication of the people of Ethiopia who responded with "Possible! Possible!" to questions of education and technology, World Possible was created.  The vision is to make a literate and poverty free "world possible" through the means of Education, Technology and Community Service. 


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