Welcome to World Vision International's
OPEN library for local learning communities (OL3C)
This portal to ol3c.org is a proof-of-concept pilot sponsored by World Vision International and its OL3C partner agencies.
OL3C is an international partnership of agencies and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library to share teaching and learning materials in the highly adaptable Shellbook resource format. The aim is that any local community of practice or social network, especially those that have been bypassed by mainstream development efforts, may localize life-crucial information in terms of their own language, culture, ethnicity, gender, and/or age group. OL3C will also provide a collaborative environment for the research and development of localization resource standards, tools, and best practices, as well as research into the relationship of localization to language development and integral human development.
Read more here about how the Open Library for Local Learning Communities plans to build comprehensive infrastructure to support local learning, globally.
Current & Prospective Pilot Participants: If you are already involved in the pilot, or wish to be, please contact us here, to learn more, or to register your pilot location. Orientation training sessions will be starting in July via WebEx. Orientation and other training videos will be posted here in the future..
The Shellbook software installer is now available for downoad here: Windows Mac Linux
and everyone is welcome to download it, whether you are involved in the pilot or not. If you are not a pilot participant, Shellbook will launch automatically in Player mode and you will be able to download and view all Shellbooks on this website and other OL3C portal sites in the future. Everyone is also cordially invited to browse, download and use all PDFs, videos, and other materials you find on this website.
OL3C is a collaborative environment for sharing adaptable Shellbook teaching and learning resources, worldwide, for localization by learning communities of all types, in terms of their own language, culture, ethnicity, gender, and age group.