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	*:Internationalizing the content into the various languages		*:Internationalizing the content into the various languages
	*A few schools have started to use the site in an organic way for various reasons		*A few schools have started to use the site in an organic way for various reasons
	**See [http://~~tappedin~~.org/~~tappedin~~/ TappedIn]		**See [http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Coll_BJB/TappedIn TappedIn] -- now defunct
	**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		**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		*We are interested in seeing what people are doing with content

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	== Notes ==		== 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. [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

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''Conducted with [[User:EGraeff|Erhardt Graeff]] and [[User:WikiSysop|Carolina Rossini]] via telephone on August 27, 2009, '''concerning Curriki's core content strategy and new content standards.'''

== Interviewee ==
*'''[http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Leadership Anne Schreiber]'''
**Chief Academic Officer, [http://curriki.org Curriki]
**Email: aschreiber [at] curriki [dot] org

== Notes ==

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