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By Mohammed Yusuf01 July, 2015From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report.More than 100 million people in Nigeria are not connected to the Internet. There are only a few networks that offer service and it is costly and undependable. Now, a new project provides a resource for off-line viewing at no cost.A non-profit organization called The WiderNet Project has developed the offlineeGranary Digital Library. The service puts millions of digital documents, multimedia work and websites onto a server. The information is then available to students, medical workers, and researchers at no cost, whether there is Internet or not.Users can access informative websites that eGranary updates every day suchas Wikipedia, Khan Academy,Project Gutenberg, MIT OpenCourseWare, and MIT BLOSSOMS (which is Math and Science video lessons for high school students). Other resources on the service include university and medical publications, computer software, and educational games.A university student uses offline digitallibrary to read and download educationalmaterial at Ahmadu Bello Universitycomputer library. The innovation putsmillions of digital academic documents,multimedia work and journals.(Mohammed Yusuf for VOA News)Ahmadu Bello University is the largest university in Nigeria and the second largest in Africa. The university uses eGranary's digital educational resources. Kasa Mathias is head of the school's database department. He says students can access tens of thousands of educational materials without much problem."We give them background information on the available databases that they can use for their research work, their assignments, especially projects, and sometimes we will carry them through sensitizing on new databases that are available for them."Ibitoye Idowu is a first-year student of archeology. He says easy access to university reading material, documents and journals has greatly helped his studying process. He says that in some cases, he understands the digital materials better than class lectures.Students now have great reading material, but only when there is electric power. It often fails. (Sound of assistant apologizing for power outage) Student Ibitoye Idowu says those moments are difficult."The only challenge I am having here is the power supply, sometimes it will just go off."Muhammed Mu'azu leads the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Professor Mu'azu says the university has spent a large amount of money on access to information. He says, now, it is available for 40,000 students and teachers."With or without Internet access students and staff have most of these educational databases and university has also invested a lot in Internet access so even for online materials they are readily available for staff and students anywhere you are in the university campus."There are fears that students may waste time on social media networks like Facebook and Twitter instead of spending it on school work. Professor Mu'azu says the university needs to be careful about placing restrictions on usage. But he said it will investigate what a user is accessing if a large amount of bandwidth is used.Muhammed Mu'azu compares the speed of the offline service to access over the Internet. The eGranary server can download hundreds of pages in less than 15 minutes. In the past, a10-page document would take hours to download.The offline digital library began in 2001. Hundreds of schools, clinics and universities are connected to it in Africa, Southeast Asia and many other places.WiderNet says it aims to expand to thousands more education and health centers around the world.McKinsey & Company is a private international management consulting business. It released a report in 2014 that said 4.4 billion people around the world lack Internet access. And, it said most of them live in just 20 countries.For the VOA Learning English Education Report, I'm Jill Robbins.Mohammed Yusuf wrote this story for VOA News. Dr. Jill Robbins adapted it for Learning English. Caty Weaver was the editor.____________________________________________________________Words in This Storydigital - adj. using or characterized by computer technologyaccess - v. to be able to use; to open or load (a computer file, an Internet site, etc.)database - n. information gathered and stored in a computer in a systematic way so computers can search itlecture–n.a talk or speech given to a group of people to teach them about a particular subjectbandwidth - n.a measurement of the ability of a computer network to send and receive informationdownload - v. to move or copy (a file, program, etc.) from a usually larger computer system to another computer or deviceEKids in the KitchenSome experts serve up some of the factors that make cooking with kids a pleasure rather than a struggle.__1__.For obvious reasons, a grown-up needs to be in charge of the stove, sharp knives and electrical equipment.Dr.Colker advises parents to be watchful, even when their kids are involved in relatively safe tasks.The bottom line is to stay close by, and teach your kids to respect basic safety rules.Leave Time__2__ When kids help, you'll need extra time to teach them some skills.When you're in a hurry, give your kids tasks that don't require much guidance.As they get older and develop more skills, they will become wonderful helpers and even save your time!Go for VarietyOur experts agree that children can enjoy more than the usual “kid food”，such as chicken nuggets and pizza. __3__ Sandra K．Nissenberg suggests exploring the produce passage in the supermarket and talking about the unusual fruits and vegetables you find.Involve Kids in Clean-up and Table-settingura Colker reminds parents that preschoolers are eager to deal with grown-up tasks.They actually “enjoy the clean-up and table-setting activities”，she says. __4__They may also enjoy setting the table and counting the spoons.Make Cooking a Learning Adventure[来源:]Cooking helps kids develop a healthy interest in the lifelong challenge of eating nourishing (有营养的) , delicious meals.Kids learn about science when they heat or cool a mixture and observe how it changes. __5__ And as they wait for the timer to ring, they develop a better understanding of the concept of time.A．Most young children can easily handle simple kitchen equipment.B．Cooking with young children requires patience.C．Measuring ingredients teaches kids about fractions (分数)．D．Kids can and should help wash and dry the pots and pans.E．Keep an Eye on SafetyF．Stay EquippedG．To introduce new foods, involve your kids in menu planning and shopping.。