Objectives of Overview One Laptop per Child (OLPC) serves to create educational opportunities for the world’s poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. It aspires to motivate and engage children in their own education through opportunities to learn, share, and collaborate and thereby transform the world of childhood education. Founded as recently as 2005, The OLPC project, launched out of MIT’s Media Lab, has already managed to impact millions of children with its mission to enhance childhood education through technology for the most disadvantaged children in the world. As a relatively new organization, the One Laptop Per Child program has had few longitudinal assessments of its impact, however, the existing literature provides expansive in-depth insight into the various OLPC projects throughout the world. Through the variety of different mechanisms for evaluations we have been able to gain further understanding of how the XO laptops transform and adapt to work for children in different environments. From the method of evaluation, to the style of interviews for community members, or the data analysis based on varying community needs, cultural and environmental phenomena have been adequately addressed in the existing literature, which serves as a rich tool for OLPC learning on various projects.
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