Haiti-Library: Launch of online learning platforms and Khan Academy Codecademy

P-au-P, June 27, 2014 [AlterPresse] --- In conjunction with the Foundation knowledge and freedom (Fokal), the organization without Borders Libraries (Bsf) launched Thursday, June 26, 2014, two learning platforms online Khan Academy and Codecademy, observed the online agency AlterPresse.

The launch is part of the prospect of meeting the challenge of digital literacy (digital literacy) in Francophone countries, including Haiti, and participate in the transformation of libraries in the twenty-first century.




"This event will mark the establishment of workshops, Francophone versions, Khan Academy and Codecademy, within the Monique Calixte Library (Bmc) and throughout the library system Fokal" inform the organization Bsf.

Designed for children and grown-ups, these workshops will build on tools specifically designed for deployment in libraries, such as KA Lite, the off-line version of the Khan Academy, reads the note Bsf. Both platforms will allow Internet to learn and master, independently and free, the bases of major computer languages.

Codecademy is a tool that has over 10 million users and users worldwide. The contents of Codecademy were translated exclusively by Libraries without borders, with a view to meet the challenge of digital literacy. Learning this code should stimulate, among learners, independence, creativity and curiosity, insists on the document Bsf.

Six (6) Internet programs (including graphics), which generate executable applications (technical approach) are currently available on Codecademy: these are the languages ​​of Javascript, HTML / CSS, PHP, Python, Ruby, Api.

Khan Academy makes available online educational content (lessons, videos, exercises, skills assessment, monitoring tools for teachers) that support a personalized and interactive learning for learners of all ages.

Khan Academy offers lessons on subjects as diverse as mathematics, library, biology and history of art.

Khan Academy is based on a "revolutionary teaching method", named inverted class, which led to the overthrow of the traditional teaching model. During the day, members of staff were trained Fokal remote in view to support and assist future users and future users of these programs that fail to adapt to the interfaces and languages​​, says Elizabeth Pierre-Louis, Director of Programs at Fokal.

As of October 2014, there will be a platform for exercises, projects Patrick Weil, president of Bsf in Haiti, which shares his enthusiasm for these two programs implemented.

With the former ambassador of France in Haiti, Christian Connan, president of Bsf in Haiti plans to develop with the State University of Haiti, a project of Central Reserve University, entitled Hive, for students and students, faculty and for all inhabitants and all the inhabitants of the country.

The aim is to facilitate access to hundreds of books and literature, to anywhere in the country. Learning of Codecademy are diploma courses. This is not the case for Khan Academy. [jep kft rc apr 06/27/2014 10:05]