Richard Rowe
Richard Rowe (STH’58) of Belmont, Mass., is the founder and CEO of Open Learning Exchange (OLE), an organization working to find solutions to securing quality education for disadvantaged youth around the world by focusing on tackling the three most serious barriers to learning: the lack of quality materials, effective teachers, and meaningful connections with the rest of the world. The organization was selected as a “Solver” from among nearly 500 proposals by judges of the MIT Solve program for its outstanding work. OLE is known for its Personal Learning Toolkit, which contains a multimedia digital library, templates for course development, tools for content creation, and assessment modules to certify learning and evaluate the system. It provides a personalized experience and can be used on any hardware that can open a browser, typically on low-cost tablets with open-source software.
From the Winter-Spring 2018 issue.