{"id":2623,"date":"2022-12-08T18:10:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T18:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2022-12-08T18:14:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T18:14:43","slug":"the-world-librarians-program-matches-childrens-curiousity-with-open-access-learning%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/2022\/12\/08\/the-world-librarians-program-matches-childrens-curiousity-with-open-access-learning%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Librarians Program Matches Children’s Curiousity with Open Access Learning\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Children in a Malawian school accessing the information from the RACHEL device on keepod-enabled laptops. Photo credit: The World Librarians Program<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Featured on the New America website<\/strong><\/a>, this article details the work of Carl Meyer, an information technology professional and the executive director of\u00a0ShiftIT<\/strong><\/a>, a nonprofit organization located in Blantyre, Malawi, and Charlies Schweik, Associate Director of PIT@UMass and Professor, who together, launched the\u00a0World Librarians program<\/strong><\/a>, a model for connecting requests for information from students in under-resourced countries with publicly available, open educational resources.\u00a0 This amazing story details the successful six-year path of their work, including the rollout of over 30 rural school deployments in Malawi, expansion into Kenya, and overall broadening of availability of resources.\u00a0 According to Schweik, \u201cWhat is remarkable about this project is that it shows just how small the world has become, and how technology coupled with social ingenuity can create systems where people on two sides of the world who have never met in person can help each other.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>Read the full story here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>

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Featured on the New America website, this article details the work of Carl Meyer, an information technology professional and the executive director of\u00a0ShiftIT, a nonprofit organization located in Blantyre, Malawi, and Charlies Schweik, Associate Director of PIT@UMass and Professor, who together, launched the\u00a0World Librarians program, a model for connecting requests for information from students in 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