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**Strategic Partnerships, [http://curriki.org Curriki] | **Strategic Partnerships, [http://curriki.org Curriki] | ||
**Email: plevy [at] curriki [dot] org | **Email: plevy [at] curriki [dot] org | ||
== Questions == | |||
* Sustainability -> Toward traditional publishing model | |||
* Follow up to discussion of Future of OER | |||
* How can our research and connections help facilitation greater partnering between OER projects and/or with traditional publishers? | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* PETER on OER: “It's got to exist and its got to be easy to use or nobody will use it” | |||
* ASIDE: Peter's slide deck is for content partners | |||
=== Intro to Curriki === | |||
* Spun out 3.5 years ago from Sun Microsystems (largely funded personally by Scott McNealy) | |||
* All code is LPGL, all content is CC-BY | |||
* First/Largest OER project in K-12 | |||
* Tests show that standards-based curriculum push students to score better on standardized tests--does not apply to supplementary materials. | |||
* There is not going to be any | |||
* Legislation in Indiana for public textbook dollars to be used for electronic resources | |||
* Texas is now allowing e-Textbooks to go through adoption process | |||
* Gov. Perry signed new law to liberalize how textbook dollars are spent | |||
* THE Journal, Geoff Fletcher has been covering this | |||
* CAN INTERVIEW HIM via Peter Levy | |||
=== Curriki Statistics === | |||
* 85,000 registered members | |||
* 31,000+ assets (ranges in size from whole course to individual worksheet) | |||
* PBS Newshour, Sesame Workshop, and more | |||
* Assets will double in next year if trends continue | |||
* HuffPost blog on OpenTech by Curriki to start Monday | |||
=== Content shared by... === | |||
* For-profit pubishers | |||
* Non-profit publishers/organizations | |||
* School districts/regional organizations | |||
* Ministries of education | |||
* Schools of education | |||
* The global community of educators | |||
=== Community Activity/Editing === | |||
* About 10% of community is very involved | |||
* Within 24 hours of posting, a human checks uploaded content for being appropriate | |||
* Then a subject content expert reviews material (search by topics for things that have already been reviewed) | |||
=== Future Developments === | |||
* To deal with interoperability: plug into LMS | |||
*: LMS would manage different formats and different content licenses | |||
* Curriki is putting together a module for teachers to learn how to use and participate in OER (professional development ?) | |||
=== Philosophy === | |||
* Curriki is about creating high organized database of content and displaying it (not set up to provide an interactive interface) -- VidiTalk allows for video use -- but its about displaying database content | |||
* The point is not building these kind of sites, but going into schools and getting teachers to use this (OER) content/contribute. | |||
=== Sustainability === | |||
* “Honestly, I think that sustainability is still a giant question mark” | |||
* Outside of very big donors like Hewlett or Scott McNealy, Curriki is not sustainable | |||
===Here is the ‘learn list’=== | |||
* If you don’t like the this then try this alternative | |||
** Asst. Superintendents for Instruction, Dept. Heads | |||
*** Job will change to curating from all different sources to provide teachers a custom selection of content that adheres to standards and fits a variety of instructional forms (interactive process) | |||
*** Traditional publishers will have to radically change to service provision creating the interfaces and custom databases of content for each educational context (school) | |||
OPINION: Adoption of these kind of models and OER needs to be top-down in order to truly pervade industry | |||
===Some community member gave Curriki=== | |||
* If you are approved on one standard then you get listed as “approved” | |||
* Find out actual adoption of CK-12 books (no one is adopting these books, no one is even talking about them) | |||
** Continue Education Credit through Foothill College for learning instructional design in under to evaluate existing Curriki content and improve them | |||
** INCENTIVIZE GETTING INVOLVED WITH OER THROUGH PUBLIC FUNDING (LIBERALIZATION) | |||
Professional leadership in education program at Harvard | |||
Discourse about how curriculum mandates standards are a barrier to adoption of open models / not Flickr, | |||
* Test-based versus learning-based | |||
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Revision as of 16:26, 22 October 2009
Conducted with Erhardt Graeff and Carolina Rossini in person at the Berkman Center on September 18, 2009, discussing Curriki's approach to OER.
Interviewee
- Peter Levy
- Strategic Partnerships, Curriki
- Email: plevy [at] curriki [dot] org
Questions
- Sustainability -> Toward traditional publishing model
- Follow up to discussion of Future of OER
- How can our research and connections help facilitation greater partnering between OER projects and/or with traditional publishers?
Notes
- PETER on OER: “It's got to exist and its got to be easy to use or nobody will use it”
- ASIDE: Peter's slide deck is for content partners
Intro to Curriki
- Spun out 3.5 years ago from Sun Microsystems (largely funded personally by Scott McNealy)
- All code is LPGL, all content is CC-BY
- First/Largest OER project in K-12
- Tests show that standards-based curriculum push students to score better on standardized tests--does not apply to supplementary materials.
- There is not going to be any
- Legislation in Indiana for public textbook dollars to be used for electronic resources
- Texas is now allowing e-Textbooks to go through adoption process
- Gov. Perry signed new law to liberalize how textbook dollars are spent
- THE Journal, Geoff Fletcher has been covering this
- CAN INTERVIEW HIM via Peter Levy
Curriki Statistics
- 85,000 registered members
- 31,000+ assets (ranges in size from whole course to individual worksheet)
- PBS Newshour, Sesame Workshop, and more
- Assets will double in next year if trends continue
- HuffPost blog on OpenTech by Curriki to start Monday
- For-profit pubishers
- Non-profit publishers/organizations
- School districts/regional organizations
- Ministries of education
- Schools of education
- The global community of educators
Community Activity/Editing
- About 10% of community is very involved
- Within 24 hours of posting, a human checks uploaded content for being appropriate
- Then a subject content expert reviews material (search by topics for things that have already been reviewed)
Future Developments
- To deal with interoperability: plug into LMS
- LMS would manage different formats and different content licenses
- Curriki is putting together a module for teachers to learn how to use and participate in OER (professional development ?)
Philosophy
- Curriki is about creating high organized database of content and displaying it (not set up to provide an interactive interface) -- VidiTalk allows for video use -- but its about displaying database content
- The point is not building these kind of sites, but going into schools and getting teachers to use this (OER) content/contribute.
Sustainability
- “Honestly, I think that sustainability is still a giant question mark”
- Outside of very big donors like Hewlett or Scott McNealy, Curriki is not sustainable
Here is the ‘learn list’
- If you don’t like the this then try this alternative
- Asst. Superintendents for Instruction, Dept. Heads
- Job will change to curating from all different sources to provide teachers a custom selection of content that adheres to standards and fits a variety of instructional forms (interactive process)
- Traditional publishers will have to radically change to service provision creating the interfaces and custom databases of content for each educational context (school)
- Asst. Superintendents for Instruction, Dept. Heads
OPINION: Adoption of these kind of models and OER needs to be top-down in order to truly pervade industry
Some community member gave Curriki
- If you are approved on one standard then you get listed as “approved”
- Find out actual adoption of CK-12 books (no one is adopting these books, no one is even talking about them)
- Continue Education Credit through Foothill College for learning instructional design in under to evaluate existing Curriki content and improve them
- INCENTIVIZE GETTING INVOLVED WITH OER THROUGH PUBLIC FUNDING (LIBERALIZATION)
Professional leadership in education program at Harvard
Discourse about how curriculum mandates standards are a barrier to adoption of open models / not Flickr,
- Test-based versus learning-based
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