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We are bridging the global digital divide by bringing the online learning revolution offline.

Learning Equality is committed to enabling every person in the world to achieve a quality basic education, through supporting the creation and distribution of open educational resources, and facilitating their use inside and outside of classrooms around the world. Through this work, we aim to build a new, open, and fundamentally human-centered educational model, to develop skills that empower learners to fulfill their potential, in order to promote human flourishing.

03/18/2026

🚀 Registrations are now OPEN for Education House Oxford 2026!

Join us on April 22, 2026 as we convene to bridge the divides in global education. Under the theme "Transforming Systems: Collaborating for A New Paradigm for Education," we are bringing together educators, social entrepreneurs, government leaders, philanthropy, and civil society to discuss the shifts required in Purpose, People and Philanthropy in education globally.

📅 When: April 22, 2026 | 13:30 – 17:00
📍Where: Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford, UK
👥 Capacity: 100 participants

Space is limited and we’ll be operating a waitlist system to manage demand. Register your interest today!

👉 Register at: https://educationhouse.org/events/8-transforming-systems-collaborating-for-a-new-paradigm-for-education

03/09/2026

🚀 Kolibri’s first AI-powered feature is here: resource recommendations!

In our latest Kolibri Studio release, content curators can now quickly get relevant learning materials recommended to them while building and aligning channels.

AI is becoming more and more common in well-connected education systems. Our focus? Making them work for low-resource, low-connectivity contexts so educators and learners aren’t left behind.

In this video, Learning Equality engineer Samson Akol walks through the feature.

🙏 Huge thanks to our engineering team, open-source contributors, and early supporter Google.org and collaborators like UNHCR, and Vodafone Foundation who helped make this possible.

02/04/2026

📣 Kolibri 0.19.1 is here!

This patch release contains a variety of important improvements. Some updates and general enhancements we want to highlight:

🌐 HTML5 Article Renderer improvements
➖ Performance optimizations (including a ~25% reduction in JS bundle size)
🧱 Foundational work for upcoming features
⏱️ Addresses some tech debt
🧹Cleans up Python 2.7 compatibility code

As always, we want to extend our sincere gratitude to our community and the open source contributors who helped us get this release over the finish line!

To all tech enthusiasts out there, view the full changelog here: le.fyi/releases

Open source contributors and software developers wishing to contribute to Kolibri, here is how you can pitch in: le.fyi/devcontribute

👋 We’re Learning Equality, an education nonprofit focused on creating solutions for the 2.6 billion people without the Internet. Kolibri is our open product ecosystem designed for teaching and learning with tech but without the Internet in underserved communities.

02/02/2026

📣 Remote Finance Job Opportunity: 💰Financial Operations Manager position at an education technology nonprofit focused on bringing quality education to under-resourced communities around the world! Details here: https://grnh.se/bf1jdlig1us

This position is for US-based candidates. It's designed as a part-time position with 25-30 hours a week, but we’re open to expanding the scope to a full-time role for the right person with the experience to step into additional projects.

01/07/2026

🚀 Kolibri 0.19 is here!

This release brings powerful new tools for user management, helping administrators save time and support classrooms at scale.

With bulk actions, faster search and filtering, and a simpler workflow, Kolibri 0.19 makes it easier to stay organized, from enrolling learners across classes to clearing out inactive accounts.

🎥 Marcella Maki, Full-Stack Software Engineer and Technical Product Manager at Learning Equality, walks through what’s new and how these updates simplify real-world admin workflows.

What’s new on the Users page:

👥 Enroll or remove learners in bulk
🧑‍🏫 Add or remove coaches
🔍 Filter users by type, class, or birth year
📋 Duplicate classes
🗑️ Delete inactive users

These features were shaped by community feedback, including insights from Lewa Wildlife Conservancy and Shoulder2Shoulder. 💛

01/06/2026

AI fluency allows people to shape the world around them.

Learning Equality is working to build AI literacy in partnership with the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, so communities can have agency over AI systems that affect their lives.

We’re developing needs-driven AI-powered tools that work offline, supporting real classrooms where internet access isn’t guaranteed. These tools help teachers prepare lessons faster, find resources more easily, and guide students’ individual learning needs in real time, while giving learners hands-on, scaffolded opportunities to understand, practice, and apply AI concepts. By combining guided learning materials with practical interaction, we’re supporting educators and students to build confidence, agency, and real-world AI competencies grounded in their local contexts.

When people gain the capacity to understand and shape technology, AI becomes public infrastructure that belongs to everyone, not just those with connectivity or technical privilege.

🔗 Learn more about PJMF’s $75.8M commitment to public purpose AI:
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251215074811/en/As-the-World-Races-to-Accelerate-AI-Public-Institutions-Must-Build-the-Architecture-That-Guides-Its-Use-The-Patrick-J.-McGovern-Foundation-Announces-%2475.8M-Commitment

12/08/2025

We’re excited to celebrate Jakub Komárek and his Summer of Code (GSoC) contributions to Kolibri, our open-source ecosystem of digital tools for teaching and learning without the internet.

This summer, Jakub began creating the Kolibri Community Library, an easy way for Kolibri Studio users to share the channels they create so other educators in the same region or language can quickly find and reuse them. This will help educators discover high-quality, curriculum-aligned, relevant open resources without having to start from scratch.

📹 In this video, Jakub shares more about his GSoC project.

Find Jakub on GitHub: https://github.com/jakoma02

This is part 3 in our series expressing gratitude for our 2025 GSoC contributors. Stay tuned for more.

12/03/2025

🔍 Search for youth aged 11-14 around the world who want to enter an international STEM competition to design solutions for real-world problems 🌍💡

We’re helping support “STEM Beyond Borders” by The Genesis Initiative, a student–led global science and engineering competition for middle school students worldwide to apply their STEM skills to invent innovative solutions that address challenges faced by rural and developing communities globally.

👩🏾‍🔬🧑🏽‍💻 Who can join?

👉 Ages 11–14, in middle school / junior high / lower secondary (or equivalent)
👉 Teams of 2–5 students

⏰ Registration deadline: December 19, 2025

Find more info here: le.fyi/STEMbeyondborders

💬 Share with an educator, parent, or student so more youth can bring their STEM ideas to life.

12/02/2025

Have you seen how learning continues even when the Internet stops?

Our open-source digital learning platform Kolibri, reaches offline classrooms, community centers, refugee camps, and correctional facilities around the world. Every time a device briefly connects, it drops a pin on our map, showing that learning is happening, even in the hardest-to-reach places.

Each pin represents:
📚 A teacher prepping lessons offline
🧑🏽‍🎓 A learner exploring at their own pace
🌍 A community investing in its future

This Giving Tuesday, you can help put more pins on the map📍

And thanks to a generous donor offering a match of up to $100K through December 31st, your gift will go twice as far toward supporting learners who need it most.

Help make your mark: le.fyi/donate

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11/25/2025

👩🏽‍💻 We’re excited to celebrate Shruti Yadav and her Google Summer of Code (GSoC) contributions to Kolibri, our open-source ecosystem of digital tools for learning with tech but without the internet.

This summer, Shruti built the new Kolibri Onboarding Tour. A guided in-app pop-up experience that helps first-time learners quickly understand the key features in the Learner interface. 📚✨

📹 Watch the video to hear more about her project and check out her work on GitHub at ‘shruti862’

This is part 2 in our series celebrating our 2025 GSoC contributors. Stay tuned for more!

11/19/2025

🚨Calling all young innovators 🌍💡

We’re excited to support The Genesis Initiative's “STEM Beyond Borders”, a student–led international science and engineering competition inviting middle school students across the world to apply their STEM skills to design solutions for real-world challenges.

As an organization founded by graduate students at UC San Diego, we know what it’s like to turn a student idea into something bigger, and we’re honored to back the next generation doing the same.

👩🏾‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬🧑🏽‍💻👩🏻‍💻 Who can join?
👉 Teams of 2–5 students
👉 Ages 11–14, in middle school / junior high / lower secondary (or equivalent)

🚀 Innovation themes include:
🌱 Clean Energy & Environment
🏥 Health & Medical Access
🚰 Water & Sanitation
🌾 Agriculture & Food Systems
📚 Education & Technology Access
💡 Open Innovation

⏰ Registration deadline: December 19, 2025

Find more info at: le.fyi/STEMbeyondborders

💬 Share with an educator, parent, or student so more youth can get involved and bring their STEM ideas to life. ✨

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