Darakht-e Danesh Library
The Darakht-e Danesh (‘knowledge tree’) Library for Educators in Afghanistan is the first OER effort in Afghanistan and Afghanistan's first comprehensive digital educational resource collection, established to enhance teacher subject-area knowledge, access and use of learning materials, and to foster more diverse teaching methodologies in order to improve learning outcomes in Afghan classrooms. It was created by the NGO, Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan, established in 1996.
The Darakht-e Danesh (which means ‘knowledge tree’ in the Dari language) Library uses an innovative interactive, multilingual custom-designed web platform, and currently houses approximately 2,000 resources in 15 subject categories, for both primary and secondary teachers in Afghanistan, in the three languages taught in the Afghan public school system: Dari, Pashto and English.
