Post on 17-Jan-2016
Curriculum 2.0: How to Find Awesome Open Source Curricula Online
Curriculum 2.0: How to Find Awesome Open Source Curricula Online
Presented by: Kim Jones, Joshua Marks and Christine Loew
Curriki
ISTE 2010 | Denver, CO
Who We Are
• A not-for-profit organization, Curriki drives a broad agenda towards global educational excellence.
• Curriki.org brings the best of digital life to education via open source, affordable and peer-reviewed content and collaboration tools that are used by teachers, students, parents and developers around the world.
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Our Impact
• 35,000+ free resources
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(from every country)
• 120,000+ contributing members
• 16 million+ students reached/year
• 500+ social networks & groups
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Today’s Presentation
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• Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OERs)
• What are they?
• Why use them?
• Where to find them?
• Introduction to using Curriki to:
• Find OERs
• Create OERs
• Share OERs
• Collaborate – Hands on activity
Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) - What are they?
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Open Educational Resources are:
• Digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research” (OECD, 2007).
• Educational materials and resources offered under some licenses to freely re-mix, adapt, improve and redistribute.
• All about sharing, so that teachers and learners can share what they know
• Not a product, but a community process.
Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) – Why use them?
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OER provides solutions for schools and districts, including:
• Content that is affordable, open, customizable, interactive and engaging
• Collaborative environment for teachers and learners
• Un-tethered learning that transcends the classroom
OER brings innovations in technology to education• Digitization....................................... Online Searchable Resources
• Networking...................................... Communities of Practice
• Crowd-Source model...................... Collaboration Worldwide
• Free and Open ……....................... Creative Commons Licenses
• App Store........................................ Shared Repository of Content
• User ratings.................................... Community Assessment/Peer Review
• Free distribution.............................. Open Access Free Hosted Services
Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) – Where to find them?
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CK-12 http://www.ck12.org
• The Flexbook model
Connexions http://www.cnx.org
• Content commons or small modules
Merlot http://merlot.org
• For faculty & students of higher education
OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu
• MIT course materials
OERCommons http://www.oercommons.org
• Network for OER content resources
OpenLearn http://openlearn.open.ac.uk
• LearningSpace (content) & LabSpace (collaboration)
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• An open resource repository
• A Personal content management tools set
• A Curriculum development and publishing platform
• A Group collaboration tool
• A local and global community process
• A movement to empower educators
• A way to reduce costs for learning resources
What is Curriki.org?
FIND OERs
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Browse by Subject Advanced Search Filters
Browse by State Standard
CREATE OERs
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Create collections and add resources of any media type
• Wiki or HTML pages
• Image files
• Audio Files (Pod casts)
• Video Files (We convert and stream)
• Interactive games (SWF files)
• Archive files and “Learning Objects”
• SCORM and Content packages
• Web links resources
• Files and documents of any type
• Or use one of our lesson plan and activity templates
CREATE OERs
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Forms and Templates
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Copyright & Licensing
Creative Commons Licenses
•Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd)
•Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa)
•Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc)
•Attribution No Derivatives (by-nd)
•Attribution Share Alike (by-sa)
•Attribution (by)
COLLABORATE with OERs
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OERi in the Classroom Professional Development
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Activity:
“Build-up” the Inbox collection and add your contribution.
Join us on the Web
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Any Questions?
Thank You!Kim Jones
Executive Director
kjones@curriki.org
Joshua MarksChief Technology Officer
jmarks@curriki.org
Christine LoewProgram Manager
cloew@curriki.org
• This presentation and other resources can be accessed on the ISTE 2010 Curriki Group:
http://ISTE2010.groups.curriki.org
• Curriculum 2.0 session evaluation available at:
http://www.surveymk.com/s/byol-opensource_eval