Agavi: Offline Digital Learning for Ukraine

Good day all,

We have been making good progress on the Agavi system.  Our Romanian volunteers have been hard at work this summer on building out the digital infrastructure for the system, including the login page, dashboard, experiences landing page, and author system for building new on-location teaching experiences which include a number of learning blocks, like text, multiple choice, GPS location, and others that can be mixed and matched to create activities for learners.  With a few more weeks of build time we should be able to reach alpha stage and begin testing with teachers to better understand if the system is meeting their needs and what changes we need to make to help make Agavi more user friendly and useful.

Additionally, our Ukrainian colleagues are continuing to build their Capathian clean rivers projects as part of our Greenworks program.  Once Agavi is in a good state, we'll work with our Ukrainian colleagues to help them develop public teaching and education resources about water pollution to help support this project and test out how well Agavi works in public education in the Carpathian mountains.  We're looking forward to these results!

With gratitude,

Lev

Greetings all,

Just a quick update on our Agavi project.  Our Romanian and Brazilian team is in the process of constructing the prototype for Agavi that we aim to be testing later this year.  So far, they have constructed the landing and account management pages and are busy working on the activity editor, which will allow a teacher to quickly construct activities that use the field environment to teach.  We anticipate rapid progress in the next few months with testing to begin later this year.

Meanwhile, our Ukrainian colleagues are deeping their connections with Sukhil' River communities in the Carpathians through our Greenworks project.  In addtion to helping students at Lviv Polytechnic develop extension projects, the Lviv team is also working on implementing curricular changes at their home university to make active learning a more broadly used tool, which is laying the groundwork for Agavi.

Stay tuned for more, and as always, thank you for your generous support to our project!

With gratitude,

Lev