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The promise of open educational resources.

Change | September 1, 2006 | Copyright

In Sauri, Kenya, a fifth-grade schoolteacher looks up ways of explaining the division of fractions, a challenge faced by teachers around the world. Since he is planning at home, he is using his hand-held device to view a free and dedicated Web site written in Swahili. He finds a set of examples that have been written by other Kenyan teachers, as well as videos of excellent teaching from Singapore that are captioned in his language.

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