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Kolibri

Kolibri is an open-source offline ed-tech platform developed by Learning Equality, focused on increasing the availability of relevant and aligned learning materials, fostering innovative pedagogy, and boosting learning outcomes. Content is organized into "channels", and the following channels are currently available on this device:

Stanford Digital MEdIC Coronavirus Toolkit
From the Stanford Center for Health Education, these infographics and visual materials provide key information on high-priority topics related to the prevention and understanding of COVID-19.
World Health Organization COVID Advice for Public
Stay aware of the latest information on the COVID-19 outbreak. Most countries around the world have seen cases of COVID-19 and many are experiencing outbreaks. Authorities in China and some other countries have succeeded in slowing their outbreaks. However, the situation is unpredictable so check regularly for the latest news.
Lewa Digital Literacy
School Content
CBC Kenya
This channel designed by wiLearn is providing a learning platform for community teachers in Kenya - aligned with the CBC framework
Be Strong: Internet safety resources
A new set of peer to peer resources to teach students how to use the internet safely and be digitally resilient
Touchable Earth (fr)
Where kids teach kids about the world. Taught entirely by school age children in short videos, Touchable Earth promotes tolerance for gender, culture, and identity.
Khan Academy (Français, langue française)
Khan Academy content for French.
Aflatoun Academy (en)
Aflatoun International offers social and financial education to millions of children and young people worldwide, empowering them to make a positive change for a more equitable world.
Cours HP LIFE (Français)
Un programme de HP Foundation, les cours HP LIFE sont conçus pour aider les adultes à apprendre de manière autonome diverses compétences numériques, y compris les technologies de l'information, la création d'entreprise, les ventes en ligne et le marketing. Ces cours conviennent aux adultes qui sont curieux de développer leurs compétences professionnelles ou poursuivre de nouvelles opportunités.
HP LIFE Courses (English)
A program of the HP Foundation, this collection of short introductory courses helps adults learn independently various digital and entrepreneurship skills, including information technology, starting a business, online sales, and marketing. Appropriate for adults who are curious to develop their professional skills or simply learn about new opportunities.
Aflatoun Academy (fr)
Aflatoun International offers social and financial education to millions of children and young people worldwide, empowering them to make a positive change for a more equitable world.
How to get started with Kolibri
Kolibri video tutorials to understand the Learner, Coach, and Admin features.
Global Digital Library - Book Catalog
The Global Digital Library (GDL) is being developed to increase the availability of high quality reading resources in languages children and youth speak and understand.
Thoughtful Learning
Learning resources on Langugage Arts, 21st Century Learning, and Social-Emotional Learning.
Espresso English
Espresso English is a channel that features Shayna, an experienced ESL teacher who provides learners with English lessons in vocabulary, grammar and conversational English as well.
Osmosis.org
A study tool built for tomorrow's doctors and health workers.
TESSA - Teacher Resources
Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Pratham Books' StoryWeaver
MIT Blossoms
African Storybook
Open access to picture storybooks in the languages of Africa. For children's literacy, enjoyment and imagination.
Touchable Earth (en)
Where kids teach kids about the world. Taught entirely by school age children in short videos, Touchable Earth promotes tolerance for gender, culture, and identity.
Sikana EN
Sikana is an NGO aiming at producing educative videos to share practical knowledge and skills.
PhET Interactive Simulations (en)
The PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations that engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.
Khan Academy (English)
Khan Academy content for English.
EngageNY (en)
EngageNY Common Core Curriculum Content, ELA and CCSSM combined.
CK-12

You can create an account to track progress. Later, you can login again and continue where you left off.

Moodle on RACHEL

Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with an integrated system to create personalised learning environments.

• Videos on using Moodle can be found here.
• The 2nd edition of Using Moodle can be found here.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia is the world's largest encyclopedia, created, moderated, and edited by users for users. This encyclopedia has over 5 million articles with illustrations and is freely available to anyone, anywhere. This fully searchable version was provided by Kiwix.

Career Girls

Watch and learn from inspirational women! Career Girls is a video-based career exploration tool for girls, with an emphasis on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) careers. It’s free to use and free of commercials. Our collection includes over 11,000 video clips featuring more than 500 women role models. These successful women work in different careers — ranging from astronaut to musician to veterinarian!

Hesperian Health Guides

Easy to understand, practical, accurate, and heavily illustrated guides on health topics that for remote areas where access to medical personnel and facilities is limited.

These materials do not provide medical advice and are for informational purposes only. This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of a qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read here.

Clinical Officer Training South Sudan

This collection of short engaging videos provide supporting eLearning media for clinical officers in training at the JHSI Insititute

eLearning modules for clinical officers
Human Physiology
Anatomy of the hand
Heart Matters
Anatomy of the knee
Anatomy of the shoulder
Anatomy of the foot
Anatomy of the male reproductive system
Anatomy of the female reproductive system
Patient Consultation
Exam of an ankle
Diagnosis
Jaundice
Triage
Treatment Practices
Suture instructions
COST Africa
Clinical Officer Surgical Training in Africa
COST Africa Supervisory Report
COST Africa questions for hernia patients
Infectious Disease
Cholera
Ebola
Medical Assistant Knowledge
Medical Terminology
Stories from the field
Community Health Workers
eLearning modules

Global Health Media

This collection of short engaging videos provide a simple and effective solution to help health workers and communities gain the knowledge and basic skills that can save peoples lives

MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia

More than 4,000 cross-referenced medical articles from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. Includes comprehensive illustrations and photographs.

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These materials do not provide medical advice and are for informational purposes only. This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of a qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read here.

Khan Academy Health & Medicine

Nearly 200 videos on health topics, covering the workings of major body systems and the diseases that affect them. All Khan Academy content is available for free at www.khanacademy.org.

These materials do not provide medical advice and are for informational purposes only. This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of a qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read here.

Medical Information

Various Medical Documents

These materials do not provide medical advice and are for informational purposes only. This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of a qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read here.

Teacher Training

The module contains information for teachers and facilitators to help them gain the skills they need to incorporate digital content from RACHEL into their classroom teaching.

Khan Academy

Over 2000 videos on math and science, from the basic to the advanced. All Khan Academy content is available for free at www.khanacademy.org.

Yamora - Family Health and Peace

Literacy and Life Skills training material collected in coordination with Yamora South Sudan

Swahili Bible

A collection of books about God's plan that can transform your life forever

Infonet-Biovision

Well organized and illustrated information on a wide range of agricultural,environmental, and health topics.

The Organic Farmer - Magazine

Over 80 printable magazines on farming from Kenya. Used by over 60,000 farmers for guidance and practical tips on securing and increasing their harvests through simple, environmentally friendly means.

RACHEL-Plus Lesson Planner and Content Storage

Add your own content to RACHEL-Plus

RACHEL Module Maker

Learn how to create and upload a custom RACHEL module for your device.

The World's Largest Developer Site

learn OFFLINE to develop ONLINE tools

GCF LearnFree.org

Hundreds of high-quality illustrated articles and videos focusing on technology, job training, reading, and math skills, produced by the Goodwill Community Foundation.

TED Talks

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an invitation-only event where the world's leading thinkers and doers gather to find inspiration.

This collection includes nearly 2000 short videos on thought provoking topics from several years worth of events around the world.

Fantastic Phonics for Adults

Fantastic Phonics for Adults is a powerful collection of literacy tools - including over 140 lessons and almost 300 videos.

Fantastic Phonics

Fantastic Phonics is a complete 16 week intensive reading scheme for schools and families, with 60 printable stories, multimedia and video.

Ubongo Kids

This collection of multimedia learning material is fun to use. It teaches basic literacy and numberacy providing child friendly learning opportuntiies with lots of fun

MsingiPACK

100% Competence Based Curriculum Digital Content aligned to the new CBC syllabus. MsingiPACK Junior makes learning fun, a perfect student companion for learning both at school and at home.

KA Lite

KA-Lite includes thousands of videos and exercises on math, science, and more - an incredible learning resource brought to you by the Khan Academy and The Foundation for Learning Equality.

You can create an account to track your progress. When you return, you can login and view your progress.

Ethiopian Textbooks

Ethiopian textbooks for grades 5 - 12

Ethiopian Videos

Ethiopian videos for grades 9 - 12

African Storybook Project

These stories are in the 11 official languages of South Africa. These enjoyable stories will assist young children as they learn to read. Because the stories are in a language familiar to the children, as well as a language they are learning, the children will have fun practicing while they learn to love reading.

These stories are in Swahili, Ma and English, the languages that are spoken in northern Tanzania.

Mongolia Literacy and Life Skills

Literacy and Life Skills training material published in coordination with Non-Formal Education "Enlightenment Centres". Textbooks are designed for elementary, intermediate and advanced literacy level for youth and adults

Zimbabwe OER Repository for Highschools

The digital repository for Zimbabwe Highschools

Hesperian Guides de Santé

Des guides faciles à comprendre, pratiques, précis et fortement illustrés sur les thèmes de santé que dans les régions éloignées où l'accès au personnel médical et les installations sont limitées.

Ces matériaux ne fournissent pas de conseils médicaux et sont à titre informatif seulement. Ce contenu n'a pas vocation à remplacer un avis médical professionnel, un diagnostic ou un traitement. Toujours demander l'avis d'un professionnel de la santé qualifié si vous avez des questions Concernant une affection médicale. Ne négligez jamais les conseils médicaux professionnels ou À la recherche de quelque chose que vous avez lu ici.

Wikipedia for Schools

This curated selection of articles from Wikipedia can be used offline by school children around the world. 6000 articles, 26 million words and 50,000 images make Wikipedia for Schools bigger than Harry Potter, the Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia put together!

Interactive World Map

Browse the world from the global to the local with this interactive and searchable world map from OpenStreetMaps and the XSCE project.

Saylor Academy

Free, open online courses for people everywhere.

College Credit Courses

This is a collection of courses that can help you earn college credits in a variety of topics. The courses are gathered from a variety of Open Educational Resources, and reorganized by World Possible, the team that maintains RACHEL.

College credits are granted through CLEP exams. The College Board's College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) has been the most widely trusted credit-by-examination program for over 40 years, accepted by 2,900 colleges and universities and administered in more than 1,800 test centers, including in many prison facilities.

Educate!

Educate! provides youth with skills training in leadership, entrepreneurship and workforce readiness, along with mentorship, to start real businesses at school.

Boundless Textbooks

An amazing collection of searchable textbooks on a variety of advanced subjects, including extensive linked definitions of terms.

Core Knowledge

The Core Knowledge Curriculum Series provides comprehensive, content-rich learning materials based on the Core Knowledge Sequence. Student readers, teacher guides, activity books, and other materials are available for Language Arts and History and Geography.

CK-12 Textbooks

High quality textbooks on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) from ck12.org.

Math (by Subject)
Algebra**
Geometry**
Trigonometry**
Calculus**
Math (by Age)
Grade 6 (age 11-12) - U.S.
Grade 7 (age 12-13) - U.S.
Grade 8 (age 13-14) - U.S.
Science (by Subject)
Biology** (Exercises) (Tests)
Physics** (Exercises) (Tests)
Chemistry** (Exercises) (Tests)
Astronomy
Discoveries and Projects
Science (by Age)
Earth Sciences 1** (age 11-14) - U.S. (Exercises) (Tests)
Earth Sciences 2** (age 14-18) - U.S. (Exercises) (Tests)
Physical Sciences** (age 11-14) - U.S. (Exercises) (Tests)
Engineering
Engineering
Humanities
U.S. History
Spelling**
Standardized Tests
U.S. SAT1 (College Entrance Exam)
U.S. SAT2 (College Entrance Exam)
U.S. SAT3 (College Entrance Exam)

Books marked with ** have a teacher's edition available here.

openstax Textbooks

A selection of post secondary textbooks for openstax (openstax.org)

Saylor Academy Textbooks

Over 100 Free Textbooks covering a wide range of topics that can help with earning college credits.

Siyavula

Mathmatics and Physical Science Textbooks & Teacher's Guides (grades 10-12)

wikiHow

A practical guide to everyday tasks - this selection from wikiHow includes nearly 70,000 articles with detailed illustrations.

Namibian Educational Content

Radio shows and short videos supporting the Namibian curriculum

Blockly Games

Games for tomorrow's programmers! Google's Blockly Games is a series of educational games that teach programming.

MIT Scratch

Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art.

As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively. Scratch is designed especially for ages 8 to 16, but is used by people of all ages.

Practical Action

Well organized and illustrated information on a wide range of agricultural, environmental, and health topics.

PhET

PhET Interactive Simulations, a project at the University of Colorado Boulder, is a non-profit[1] open educational resource (OER) project founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman. PhET began with Wiemans vision to improve the way science is taught and learned. Their stated mission is "To advance science and math literacy and education worldwide through free interactive simulations."

Powertyping

Full lessons and exercises to learn touch typing or improve your typing skills. Include many entertaining typing games, tests an practice drills.

Understanding Algebra

A complere, concise, and illustrated textbook introducing algebra that can be viewed here or printed out.

Algebra2Go - Prealgebra

The Algebra2go® prealgebra resources page.

Math Expression

Math tutoring materials including videos, study tips, practice questions and step-by-step solutions.

For each lesson, read the study tips carefully and take note of the important concepts/ideas before watching the video. These tips will guide you in your math thinking strategies.

Edison - Fun Robotics for Tomorrow's Inventors

The super affordable robot for learning and inventing. Edison is Lego compatible, easy to program and has built-in programs that are activated by driving over barcodes.

The Edison robot is an innovation from Microbric, an Australian company based in South Australia. Microbric has been providing educational products to schools since 2004. The materials references were not changed in any way and are released under the license, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). More information is available at https://meetedison.com.

Toys from Trash

Collection of Hindi videos. Create toys from household items.

Scale of the Universe

Explore the universe from the fantastically small to the awesomely large with this interactive demonstration of the size of things.

This module requires Flash or a Flash-capable browser like Chrome.

Radiolab

Radiolab is an audio show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.

Radiolab is produced by WNYC, a public radio station in New York City.

WASSCE

This collection of files will help you study for The West African Senior School Certificate Examination. These files are provided in both .docx and .pdf format and will require appropriate software to view.

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Tanzanian Exams

These test examples from The National Examinations Council of Tanzania are a useful guide for study and preparation.

Music Theory

Comprehensive music theory lessons and exercises to begin your journey into the realm of music.

OLPC Educational Packages

A collection of educational materials consolidated by the OLPC project.

Wikivoyage

Worldwide travel guide with a wealth of information on destinations around the world. Make geography come alive! This module is provided by Kiwix.

Great Books of the World

A searchable, categorized selection of over 400 of the most beloved and respected books from around the world, collected from Project Gutenberg.

Top 100 Favorites
Top 100 Non-Fiction
Adventure (24 titles)
Biographies (24 titles)
Children's Stories (23 titles)
Comedy & Humor (38 titles)
Drama (35 titles)
Fantasy (20 titles)
Folklore (7 titles)
Historical Fiction (38 titles)
Historical Non-Fiction (30 titles)
Horror (18 titles)
Mystery (17 titles)
Philosophy & Religion (30 titles)
Poetry (41 titles)
Romance (35 titles)
Science Fiction (27 titles)
Short Stories (25 titles)

Cat and Dog Books

Cat and Dog Books are funny and easy to read.

Feed the Monster

Feed The Monster teaches your child the fundamentals of reading. Collect monster eggs and feed them letters so they can grow into new friends!

Mustard Seed Books

Mustard Seed Books provide high quality books in English for beginning readers.

English Children's Storybooks

A collection of storybooks in English from several sources. Enjoy!

Book Dash Books

African storybooks for children, available for anyone to freely print, translate and distribute. BookDash believes that every child should own a hundred books by the age of five.

OER Africa - Reading

Reading is an essential skill for all of us and developing our skills in reading is a good investment. This unit is packed with practical activities which are aimed at making reading more enjoyable and rewarding. This unit also includes sections on how to read actively and critically.

OER Africa is a ground-breaking initiative established by the South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide). We play a leading role in supporting higher education institutions across Africa in the development and use of Open Educational Resources (OER) to enhance teaching and learning. Click here to download the OER Africa brochure.

Bino and Fino

Nigerian cartoons - Teaching children around the world about African culture and much more.

UNESCO's IICBA Electronic Library

Teachers' resources from the UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa.

Wikibooks

A collection of free textbooks for educational use, created and maintained by users, for users. This module is provided by Kiwix.

Wikisource

A free library of source texts - the documents that encyclopedias are made from - available for reference. This module is provided by Kiwix.

Wikiversity

Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. This offline version was provided by Kiwix.

Wiktionary

Wiktionary is a collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary. It aims to describe all words of all languages using definitions and descriptions in English.

Women In African History

A collection of comics, biographies, and audiobooks on prominent women from African history.

Peacebuilding Resources

This collection of articles, guides, and videos on building peace is a valuable resource for addressing issues that arise in conflict zones.

Windows Applications

Parts of RACHEL require an up-to-date web browser. The Firefox link below will install a compatible web browser on Windows devices. You can download these applications to a Windows-based PC by right clicking on the application name below: