One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) goal is to expand education to every child with the help of a low cost laptop. The OLPC laptop runs with GNU/Linux as operating systems and with a unique interface ‘Sugar’ which can be localised. It is developed by F/LOSS users and has customised software developed by each country deployment team (Jones, 2007). OLPC Nepal project is handled by Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal. It is working with the DoE of Nepal to integrate ICT based teaching-learning approach into the country education system. The OLPC deployment was carried in two phase. In the first phase, two schools in Lalitpur district were selected as a pilot project namely Bishwamitra Ganesh Secondary School and Bashuki Lower Secondary School. The project started in April 2008 when 135 laptops were provided to the students from grade 2 and 6 (OLENepal, n.d. a). Teachers were given training to make them feel comfortable for using laptop in their teaching process. Teachers wanted to be f...