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===General=== | |||
*Anne has a publishing background, previously worked at McGraw-Hill | |||
===California Digital Textbook Initiative=== | |||
*Everything happened so quickly | |||
*Curriki didn't take the 7 days to review their materials when the review committee got back to them | |||
*Was eye-opening because Curriki thought they were further along than they were | |||
===Partnering with other Organizations=== | |||
*Success so far with small publishers and governmental orgs who are put chunks of their content on the Curriki platform as PR for them; they also choose (non-derivative) open licenses | |||
*Pearson has been the real success in opening dialogue with us | |||
**Generally, finding a monetizable model has been a real struggle for traditional publishers | |||
**Scholastic open publishing project is a good start (i.e. [http://www.pearsoned.com/solutions/open-book.htm Open Book Initiative] ?) | |||
===Considerations for Content Standards=== | |||
*Must be modular in approach (modularizing and metatags of all content) | |||
**CK-12 / Curriki doing “playlists” of educational content | |||
**Licensing little bits and pieces of stuff and selling it is not where people/orgs are at yet | |||
*We are seeing a lot of change in the this area | |||
**Illinois just changed their textbook adoption policy | |||
**Everything in K-12/HE Education has a 5 year lag | |||
*Connect digital level assessments to digital content (is considered the next 'holy grail') | |||
**Assessment: written or digital assessment for student levels and then immediately applying that to the teaching strategy | |||
**No one has succeeded in doing this | |||
**Modularizing content could make this process more automated for each chunk of content, maybe consolidated on an LMS | |||
**Endeavor is big and expensive: publishers are better positioned to do this | |||
===Quality issue between Textbooks vs OER=== | |||
*Publishers still believe that content should not be free | |||
*:Still feel that they have the dominance on good quality content because of good authors + best consumable product form | |||
*'Open Community' believes that delivery method doesn't matter but that the community is best expert to crowdsource content | |||
**Best Models (Anne thinks): merging crowdsourcing + expert oversight (e.g. [http://www.montereyinstitute.org/nroc/ NROC]) | |||
**Open source licensing available | |||
**Way to develop this is very much a traditional publishing model | |||
**FWK is a great example of this (people working for free and producing high quality product) | |||
===Myth of Organic Collaboration=== | |||
*CASE: Six professors have been working with Curriki to produce a high quality course | |||
**Professors were stipended and Anne had to direct the project | |||
**Wouldn't have happened 'organically' | |||
*Anne wants to believe there is an organic collaboration process | |||
**BUT, she believes there really needs to be an organized effort | |||
**Curriki has not seen an organic collaboration process emerge on their platform | |||
*CASE: Curriki has a project in Europe using 'federated' version of the platform | |||
*:Internationalizing the content into the various languages | |||
*A few schools have started to use the site in an organic way for various reasons | |||
**See [http://tappedin.org/tappedin/ TappedIn] | |||
**KEY INSIGHT: People come together and crowd-source for a very specific purpose (fulfill the need and then leave) - do not stay on site and generally contribute | |||
*We are interested in seeing what people are doing with content | |||
**Needed to first seed the database with content to get people to work on stuff | |||
**”People move in baby steps” | |||
**Internal research Rice/Connexions shows same situation (very little mixing and matching was happening on the Connexions) - a lot of people saving their work but not re-editing (not an iterative model) | |||
**:Curriki has been seeing the same behavior | |||
**Now people are adding, rating (starring things), but it is extremely rare that people make major contributions to other people's started projects | |||
*'''KEY INSIGHT: K-12 teacher culture is not about allowing another teacher to come into a classroom and tell them how they might do it differently''' | |||
*:There is no real-life analog for what we are trying to do on Curriki | |||
===Contacts=== | |||
Peter Levy, Strategic Partnerships @ Curriki | |||
Revision as of 16:24, 27 August 2009
Conducted with Erhardt Graeff and Carolina Rossini via telephone on August 27, 2009, concerning Curriki's core content strategy and new content standards.
Interviewee
- Anne Schreiber
- Chief Academic Officer, Curriki
- Email: aschreiber [at] curriki [dot] org
Notes
General
- Anne has a publishing background, previously worked at McGraw-Hill
California Digital Textbook Initiative
- Everything happened so quickly
- Curriki didn't take the 7 days to review their materials when the review committee got back to them
- Was eye-opening because Curriki thought they were further along than they were
Partnering with other Organizations
- Success so far with small publishers and governmental orgs who are put chunks of their content on the Curriki platform as PR for them; they also choose (non-derivative) open licenses
- Pearson has been the real success in opening dialogue with us
- Generally, finding a monetizable model has been a real struggle for traditional publishers
- Scholastic open publishing project is a good start (i.e. Open Book Initiative ?)
Considerations for Content Standards
- Must be modular in approach (modularizing and metatags of all content)
- CK-12 / Curriki doing “playlists” of educational content
- Licensing little bits and pieces of stuff and selling it is not where people/orgs are at yet
- We are seeing a lot of change in the this area
- Illinois just changed their textbook adoption policy
- Everything in K-12/HE Education has a 5 year lag
- Connect digital level assessments to digital content (is considered the next 'holy grail')
- Assessment: written or digital assessment for student levels and then immediately applying that to the teaching strategy
- No one has succeeded in doing this
- Modularizing content could make this process more automated for each chunk of content, maybe consolidated on an LMS
- Endeavor is big and expensive: publishers are better positioned to do this
Quality issue between Textbooks vs OER
- Publishers still believe that content should not be free
- Still feel that they have the dominance on good quality content because of good authors + best consumable product form
- 'Open Community' believes that delivery method doesn't matter but that the community is best expert to crowdsource content
- Best Models (Anne thinks): merging crowdsourcing + expert oversight (e.g. NROC)
- Open source licensing available
- Way to develop this is very much a traditional publishing model
- FWK is a great example of this (people working for free and producing high quality product)
Myth of Organic Collaboration
- CASE: Six professors have been working with Curriki to produce a high quality course
- Professors were stipended and Anne had to direct the project
- Wouldn't have happened 'organically'
- Anne wants to believe there is an organic collaboration process
- BUT, she believes there really needs to be an organized effort
- Curriki has not seen an organic collaboration process emerge on their platform
- CASE: Curriki has a project in Europe using 'federated' version of the platform
- Internationalizing the content into the various languages
- A few schools have started to use the site in an organic way for various reasons
- See TappedIn
- KEY INSIGHT: People come together and crowd-source for a very specific purpose (fulfill the need and then leave) - do not stay on site and generally contribute
- We are interested in seeing what people are doing with content
- Needed to first seed the database with content to get people to work on stuff
- ”People move in baby steps”
- Internal research Rice/Connexions shows same situation (very little mixing and matching was happening on the Connexions) - a lot of people saving their work but not re-editing (not an iterative model)
- Curriki has been seeing the same behavior
- Now people are adding, rating (starring things), but it is extremely rare that people make major contributions to other people's started projects
- KEY INSIGHT: K-12 teacher culture is not about allowing another teacher to come into a classroom and tell them how they might do it differently
- There is no real-life analog for what we are trying to do on Curriki
Contacts
Peter Levy, Strategic Partnerships @ Curriki
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