OER in Practice:Changing the Equation, an Overview of Curriki’s Free and Professional Services

Joshua MarksCTO, Curriki

June 13, 2011

Outline• The problem (Changing the equation)• Who we are and what we do• Curriki history (From FOSS to OER)• Enabling communities of practice and empowering educators• Peer and community review• Tailoring and differentiating instruction• Free Services (Find, Build, Share, Collaborate) • Professional Services that help realize the value• Teacher professional development • Curriculum management, customization and development• LMS integration • Media, production and editorial support

Changing the Education Equation

Remediation

≠ access to effective teachers and quality content

Achievement Gap

College Graduation rates

STEM Graduates

Losing Ground to ROW

Teachers + Text Books + Students = Education

The Current EquationHS

Graduation rates

The problem

$Expensive and

static print materials

RemediationAchievement Gap

College Graduation rates

STEM Graduates

The Desired EquationHS

Graduation rates

The solutionGainingGround

= access to effective teachers and materials of all

types

Engaged Students + Effective Teachers+ Open and Shared Digital Resources

Successful Education

$Free digital materials

Who we are

The leading K-12 global community for teachers, students and parents to create, share and find free learning resources that improve teacher effectiveness and student performance

501 (c) 3

“Students today are raised on technology. The way students interact, learn and share is changing - education needs to adapt to those changes. Continued focus on eliminating barriers to education by leveraging technology and the network will help bridge the digital divide and deliver world-class education to everyone. Today’s students are the leaders of tomorrow and it is our duty to provide the education they need to shape the future.”

Scott McNealyCo-Founder, Sun Microsystems, Inc.Founder, Curriki

Education Dynamics

Find and use free EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES• 43,000+ digital learning objects in all subject matter areas (K-14)• Search by subject, level, type• Any format• Global contributors, with community and users ratings and reviews

Join and participate in COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE • Find or create topical or regional curriculum and support groups • Open or Closed Membership• Build, manage and peer review resource collections (lessons, units or courses) • Peer review and support• Share best practices and strategies• Publish content and integrate into LMS solutions

What is Curriki?

Organize, manage and create and exchange PERSONAL CONTENT• Build custom collections of resources (Remix)• Create Resources• Improve and edit resources• Share and exchange materials

Think of Curriki as:

Social Networking

Open Source Licensing

Expert and Community Reviews

Personalized Content

CollectionsLibrary of Congress

Community developed

Videos, podcasts, Animations, Simulations

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Global Education Learning Community

501(c)3

Peer Review System Full

Chemistry Curriculum

Standards Alignment

Launched first website

Focus on building curriculum and

collections

ADVOCACY for Open

Resources

<- 1998SUN establishes the

Java Community Process for FOSS development

Curriculum Building tools

Resources 22,000 35,000 42,000Members 56,000 98,000 166,000Groups 310 450 563

Group Collaboration

tools

<- 2002 SUN ‘ERC’ meeting with Ministers of Education

What is a Community Process for the creation of Open Educational Resources (OERs)?

Community: A group of individuals with common self-interest sharing an

environment.

Process: A method and sequence

of steps for achieving an outcome

Educational Resources: Learning Objects, Activities, Lesson Plans, Video,

Audio, Documents, Source and Reference Material, Textbooks, Tutorials,

Data, or any other digital assets useful for teaching and learning.

Open: Means both Open Access (free to use) and Open Source (able to be

modified and redistributed.)

Value of OER• Community developed vs. Silo developed

• Resources are modifiable and customizable (Dynamic vs. static content)

• Modular and remixable

• Investment in Human Capital beyond the IP of the instructional materials

• Teachers develop a deeper understanding of subject matter when they participate in curriculum selection, sequencing and improvement • Build communities of practice to support effective instructional strategies and identify and share best practices.

• Enabled transition to fully digital materials

• Facilitates differentiation of instruction, accessibility and UDL

• Fosters creativity an exploration of new methods and practices

What You Can Do on Curriki

Connect to data

Engage and

Share

Find and Access

Assemble and Plan

Rate and Review

CreateModify

Contribute

The growth of a Curriki User

What You Can Do on Curriki

Connect to data

Engage and

Share

Find and Access

Assemble and Plan

Rate and Review

CreateModify

Contribute

The growth of a Curriki User

What You Can Do on Curriki

Connect to data

Engage and

Share

Find and Access

Assemble and Plan

Rate and Review

CreateModify

Contribute

The growth of a Curriki User

What You Can Do on Curriki

Connect to data

Engage and

Share

Find and Access

Assemble and Plan

Rate and Review

CreateModify

Contribute

The growth of a Curriki User

Share resource with friends and colleagues via Social Networks

Join and collaborate in topical or regional groups

Embed resources and collections into your LMS or school portal.

What You Can Do on Curriki

Connect to data

Engage and

Share

Find and Access

Assemble and Plan

Rate and ReviewLead

CreateModify

Contribute

The growth of a Curriki User

Eco Charter School

Professional Services help realize value Curriki provides a range of training, professional services and support packages to help individuals, schools, organizations, e-learning technology vendors and curriculum publishers use and get the most out f OER and the Curriki service.

• Teacher PD courses to help integrate OER into instruction

• School and District OER consulting services help administrators discover and share their latent resources and unlock their human capital

• Editorial services for building, adapting and aligning resources collections to meet local needs and as part of published works

• Technical Support programs and integration services

• Application customization (Adding features and functions as users require them)

Professional Development Workshops INTRODUCTION TO OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OERS)

During this half-day workshop covering Open Educational Resources (OERs) as alternatives to textbooks for K-12 teachers, participants will learn how OER broaden the use of alternatives to textbooks while maintaining instructional quality, and lowers costs.

INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL COPYRIGHTS

In this half-day session, participants will be introduced to various aspects of digital copyrights, including free models of distribution, types of licenses, the importance of applying digital copyrights, and how to correctly attribute a digitally licensed work.

USING CURRIKI.ORG AND OERS TO ENHANCE CURRICULUM DESIGN

This half-day workshop is designed for teachers who want to learn how to use open educational resources to enhance their classroom curriculum and to collaborate with other teachers. At the end of the workshop each participant will have created a unit(s) of study. Participants will also learn how they can contribute to the Curriki repository.

Professional Development Workshops PUBLISHING OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OERS) ON CURRIKI

During this half-day workshop participants will learn how to publish a variety of instructional materials and media into the Curriki repository: an instructional video, a lesson plan written in text, a recording of a lecture, an interactive learning exercise designed in Flash, a Zip archive containing an entire course's reference material, and more. Each participant will create a personal collection of resources from their published material.

COLLABORATION WITH CURRIKI GROUPS

During this half-day workshop we will provide a basic overview about using group tools on Curriki. Currently, dozens of organizations, schools, and districts are using groups on Curriki to communicate, collaborate, share curricula, and more. People using groups on Curriki range from educators undertaking formal curriculum and professional development efforts to more informal groups of interest or practice. Participants will create new groups invite others to their groups add curriculum and resources to their groups, manage a discussion, and join the groups that others have created.

CURRIKI ADVANCED TOPICS

This half-day workshop will introduce teachers to the use of Curriki for selecting and creating curricula from the Curriki Open Educational Resources (OER) and other OER resources. Participants will learn how to find, edit and "mix and remix" content. At the end of the workshop each participant will have created a unit(s) of study. The workshop will provide instruction for building customized content using the Curriki platform and tools.

2011 2013 2014 2015

Resources 55,000 95,000 130,000 150,000 165,000Members 400,000 500,000 750,000 1,000,000 1,250,000

Groups 650 1000 1500 2000 2,500

2012

Content and learning services:• Suggest Alignment • Publishers Content• Real-time Scoring

•Formative and Summative Assessments•Content Packaging and conversion

•Custom Curation Service•Open Courseware delivery

•Analytics•Teacher and Student Portfolios

Community and content:•SSO with Social networks•More Collaboration Tools

•Vertical Groups•Assessment items an tests

•Collection rendering•Search and Discovery APIs

•Notifications•Enterprise and “Federated”

hosting services

Platform/Tools:•Platform Upgrade•Multiple LMS/PLE

•Interoperability•Auto Translation

•Dynamic Assembly• Adaptive Learning

•Interactive templates

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