Product Description
RACHEL, the Remote Area Community Hotspot for Education and Learning, is a combination of freely available software and content modules that enable online educational materials into places with limited or no internet access. The content is available in multiple languages and can be customized to suit local needs.
It is divided into two areas:
– RACHEL Content Library, which can be installed and deployed freely and everywhere by downloading content from their site
– RACHEL Hardware, a hardware, pre-installed with the most-used RACHEL content.
Market Suggested Retail Price
$499.00
Distributors / Implementing Organizations
Manufacturing/Building Method
RACHEL Content Library is developed mainly with Shell, PHP and Perl. The RACHEL-Pi is based on the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B.
Intellectural Property Type
Open Source
User Provision Model
RACHEL Content Library is provided through their GitHub site and FTP site. RACHEL Hardware can be purchased through the project's web page.
Distributions to Date Status
Rachel is used by hundreds of partner organizations in over 40 countries worldwide
Design Specifications
RACHEL-Corrections 3.0 - Required skills: None - Number of simultaneous users: 20-50 - Supported content storage: 500GB HDD RACHEL-Plus - Required skills: None - Number of simultaneous users: 10-50 - Supported content storage: 500GB HDD RACHEL-Pi - Required skills: SSH or linux command line for safe shutdown (recommended) - Number of simultaneous users: 1-10 - Supported content storage: 64GB
Technical Support
There is an open community for support and a side community called RACHEL Friends that aims to improve, expand, spread, and document RACHEL, the best ways use it, and experiences deploying it.
Replacement Components
For RACHEL Content Library it does not apply. For RACHEL Hardware there are differentiated policies for every product.
Lifecycle
For RACHEL Content Library it does not apply. For RACHEL Hardware this is unknown.
Manufacturer Specified Performance Parameters
- Easy to build
- Easy to use: Turn it on and connect to "RACHEL" as you would any wifi network. Open a web browser and type the web address (a number listed on the front sticker of your RACHEL). Once you're connected to RACHEL, you can instantly access offline versions of the world's best free educational websites including Wikipedia, Khan Academy, and over 100 more.
Vetted Performance Status
Results of an independent evaluation of the Sergio Paiz Andrade Foundation’s (Funsepa) pilot program in Sacatepéquez presented in this report. The pilot aimed to take an innovative approach to Funsepa’s traditional programming and enhance student academic performance in mathematics. The results show that consistently, students with access to e-education resources scored more than 10% that their control group counterpart. An independent evaluation of The Samuel Morris Scholar’s Pilot Program initiated by Innovative Education Liberia (IEL) in a remote, rural county of Liberia during the 2015-2016 academic year show that, relative to the comparison group, the pilot intervention leads to an average increase of 10 points in math scores, out of a maximum possible score of 100 points, which is double the increase of five points produced by Funsepa’s traditional program.
Safety
N/A
Complementary Technical Systems
None.
Academic Research and References
None.
Compliance with regulations
Yes. All content available within RACHEL solution is open source and can be freely share everywhere.
Other Information
There are video-tutorials on the Jeremy Schwartz YouTube Channel.
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