Runs on Anything

To facilitate broad, low-cost adoption, Kolibri is carefully designed to run on as many devices and operating systems as possible, leveraging existing legacy hardware or low-cost off-the-shelf devices. Kolibri runs on Windows, Linux, and OSX.

The cost of Android tablets is plummeting, so we're also building Kolibri to be able to run standalone as an Android app. Content can be loaded onto a tablet from a nearby server or peer-to-peer from another tablet, and then taken elsewhere and used by itself.

Content Curation

We're building a web-based tool that allows organizations to upload and curate their own educational content. Anyone can bundle and distribute their content into custom channels, allowing communities to align content with local curricular standards to best serve the needs of their learners.

★ Remix existing channels: Kolibri will allow educational content producers and organizations to have the freedom to combine content from various channels to make a broad library of high quality and locally relevant educational content available to offline learners. For example, an instructor could create a new channel by combining math content from the Khan Academy channel and geography content from the OpenStax channel, allowing them to easily integrate a variety of learning materials to customize their curriculum.

★ Upload new content: When content producers come up with their own learning materials that they want to include, they can upload their content to Kolibri, and remix it with content from existing channels.

★ Integrate new and existing content: Kolibri will allow educational content producers and organizations to combine existing content with their own. If an organization like UNICEF knows from experience that certain math lessons are favored by students, and they have also noticed that some of their own original exercises are effective, they can create a new channel and combine their content with pre-existing content from another channel to optimize their curriculum.

Syncing and Sharing

Devices installed with Kolibri can find and directly connect with each other over a local wi-fi network, allowing for easy content sharing and data updates.

Self-Paced Learning

Track educational growth for individuals and groups of learners accurately and easily, even in informal educational contexts.

Kolibri will come with evaluation tools such as "coach reports," customized quizzes and exercises, and a recommendation tool that displays useful and relevant content that is based on a learner's history, progress, and goals.

★ Coach Reports: These are detailed progress reports that measure factors such as time taken to complete exercises, records on which questions have been answered correctly or incorrectly, and provide a picture of overall progress through a specific set of exercises and lessons.

★ Customized Quizzes and Exercises: Question sets and exercises can be created in Kolibri in multiple choice and free response format. This customized evaluation tool will help learners practice what they've learned and show what they know, while staying aligned with the goals and standards of their local curriculum.

★ Content Recommendation: Kolibri will recommend educational content to a learner based on the content and exercises they have previously engaged with.