Learning Equality

Learning Equality 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.

🎉 Big news: we've been selected to receive a grant from the K-12 AI Infrastructure Program!With this support, we're buil...
06/30/2026

🎉 Big news: we've been selected to receive a grant from the K-12 AI Infrastructure Program!

With this support, we're building open benchmarks for science misconception identification in grades 6-12: a rigorous evaluation set that any edtech product can run their model against to find out whether it can reliably detect what students actually misunderstand in science.

More to come as the work progresses.

Thank you to Digital Promise , Learning Data Insights, DrivenData , Massive Data Institute at Georgetown University, and Catalyst @ Penn GSE for this opportunity.

Learn more: https://k12-ai-infrastructure.org/

06/24/2026

15 minutes just to log in.

That's time that should be spent learning.

Watch as Liana Harris, software engineer at Learning Equality, walks through our newest Kolibri feature: Picture Password Login. Three images. No typing. No lost time.

Built with teachers at YIDA Youth Initiative - Youth Initiative for Development in Africa in Uganda. Now in Kolibri 0.19.4.

Thank you, YIDA — this feature exists because of you.

06/22/2026

"The only thing that refugees would have as a property is their brain. If your brain is not educated, you will still remain poor." -James Gihoma

Saturday was World Refugee Day.

Learning Equality is honored to partner with refugee-led organizations like YIDA Youth Initiative - Youth Initiative for Development in Africa , based in Kyaka II refugee settlement in Uganda. James Gihoma founded YIDA after living as a refugee himself from the age of three. Today, he and his team run two schools serving children who need more than just a classroom — they need a reason to stay in one.

On World Refugee Day and every day, we stand in solidarity with James, with the YIDA team, and with the more than 100 million displaced people around the world.

06/05/2026

"Learning Equality is not abstract. It shows up in a classroom in Pakistan where a deaf child is using their hands to tell you that it really matters." 🤲

That's Sumaira Mian, Director of Philanthropy at Learning Equality.

In 2025, Sumaira visited Deaf Reach schools in Pakistan — and watched students sign along with Kolibri in a classroom where access to education is far from guaranteed.

That moment brought everything home. Watch to hear her story. ▶️

Fourth in a four-part series featuring some of the people behind our work.
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06/04/2026

"All this time I was sitting in my house in India, staring at a screen, hoping this work was impacting learners — but when you see it in person, you just realize." 🌍

That's Revanth Voothaluru, Director of Global Implementations at Learning Equality.

45 minutes down a muddy road in Uganda. No internet. A classroom in a refugee settlement that changed everything. Watch to hear his story. ▶️

Third in a four-part series featuring some of the people behind our work. More to come. 🎬

06/02/2026

"Being there when that shift happens — when the light bulb goes off — is incredibly motivating for me." 💡

That's Laura Danforth, Director of Community & Product Operations at Learning Equality.

She works with trainers and program leaders around the world to make sure teachers feel confident using Kolibri in their classrooms. Watch to hear her story. ▶️

Second in a four-part series featuring some of the people behind our work. More to come. 🎬

06/01/2026

"Do I code just to make rich people richer — or do I code to help other people?"

That was Alex's question. Learning Equality became his answer. 💙

Meet Alex Vélez — Senior Full Stack Engineer and one of the people making offline education possible for kids around the world. 🌍

He joined us in 2022 as a Google Summer of Code contributor. Watch to hear his story. ▶️

First in a four-part series featuring some of the people behind our work. More to come. 🎬 . .

05/29/2026

What if two mentors could train entrepreneurs in 60 villages, at the same time? 🌍

That's exactly what Village Enterprise is doing in rural Africa through their SPRINT program, using Kolibri, Learning Equality's free, offline digital learning platform.
Before SPRINT, a mentor supported 60–90 businesses a year. Now? 600.

Tablets live inside communities. If a breastfeeding mother steps out during training, she can come back and replay the whole lesson. No one gets left behind.

One cohort: 93% graduated above the poverty line. Overall reach: 10x what was possible before.

Watch the full video to hear from the team behind it. 🎬

This is education that works where the internet doesn't. 🌍

Video footage: Jjumba Martin for Village Enterprise

A new version of Kolibri Studio is here 🎉This release introduces two major updates to make content creation and collabor...
05/14/2026

A new version of Kolibri Studio is here 🎉

This release introduces two major updates to make content creation and collaboration easier across the Kolibri community:

🌍 Easier sharing of community channels with metadata, license audits, and review workflows

✍️ A completely overhauled question editor with support for rich formatting, formulas, images, links, and cleaner Word imports

Nearly half of this release was authored by open source community contributors 💛

Huge shoutout to 2025 GSoC contributors Habiba Ayman and Jakub Komárek, alongside the many other contributors who helped make this release possible.

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