Distance Education Platforms

The African Storybook website has thousands of openly licensed free picture storybooks in the languages of Africa for children’s literacy, enjoyment and imagination. It also has tools for the translation, adaptation and creation of picture storybooks for children aged two to ten (early childhood and first three years of primary school).

ABRACADABRA, A Balanced Reading Approach for Children Always Designed to Achieve Best Results for All, is a highly interactive, early literacy web-based tool that supports beginning readers through 33 engaging activities linked to 20 stories of different kinds.

BookSmart gives parents and caregivers access to a library from their mobile phones so they can support their children’s learning while physical schools are out of session. BookSmart starts with a free base collection – 75+ great local and international books suitable for young readers and their parents available on Android phones via the Google Play Store.

Bloom's Book Library offers books from around the world for you to read or translate into a local language. With a single click, shell books are downloaded to your computer, ready to use even when you're offline.

It can be scary to hear news about COVID-19, but learning the facts can help ease your mind. Our Coronavirus movie,  aims to demystify the outbreak.

Indigenous organizations and allies partnered to share their digital resources, at no cost, to you. This digital library consists of resources to support in-home learning with COVID 19 safety, mental wellbeing and fun activities to keep busy. 

Approximately 2.8 million Syrian children have lost their opportunities for schooling because of the conflict that started in 2011. In the fall of 2015, Norway therefore took the initiative to launch an international competition, calling for smartphone applications that can help Syrian children learn to read and improve their psychosocial well-being.

The Global Digital Library collects existing high quality open educational reading resources, and makes them available on web, mobile and for print. The Global Digital Library currently offers resources in 43 languages, and by end 2020 the goal is to provide 100 languages.

This pack of activities is intended to support distance learning opportunities for children who are currently out of school and have no, or limited, access to quality education. These materials can also be used as a compliment to formal or non-formal education where social emotional learning (SEL) is not adequately covered by the curriculum.  

Kolibri is specially designed to provide offline access to a curated and openly licensed educational content library. Available in dozens of languages, the Kolibri libraries are designed to support a well-rounded curriculum, including both formal educational materials--such as lessons and assessments--and exploratory materials, such as books, games, and simulations.

A digital repository of multilingual stories for children from Pratham Books. Now, every child can have access to an endless stream of stories in her mother tongue to read and enjoy.

Ubongo is Africa's leading producer of kids' edutainment, with two programs: Ubongo Kids, aeducational cartoon show that teaches 7 to 14-year-olds math, science and life skills, and Akili and Me, a show aimed at teaching 3 to 6-year-olds pre-literacy, numeracy, English as a second language and socio-emotional skills critical to early childhood development.