Project Goals

The aim of ELDER is to provide educators, parents and students with learning systems that contains the best free software available in education and child-friendly entertainment. Currently, the ELDER project is working to:

• Install open-source educational software in interested rural and remote schools in Ontario
• Create lesson plans for teachers and video tutorials on how to install and use software
• Develop, promote and distribute the Portable Learning Environment (PLE), a USB that carries children’s software that can be easily booted from one computer to another
• Explore Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) which allows school to provide pupils access to computers witout purchasing or upgrading to expensive desktop machines.