CURRIKI --An Overview Presented to the Bioscience Interest Group Christine Loew Program Manager

2 ions or Comments? Overview The World Today − The New Reality – the Participation Age − Internet – The Great World Equalizer − Knowledge Space Open Education - Open Source Curriki − Mission − Strategy − Find, Contribute, Connect Partners

3 ions or Comments? The World Today 3 Million Users Each Day Transactions Are Accelerating Massive Amounts of Data

4 ions or Comments? The New Reality: The Participation Age Everyone and Everything Participating on the Network

5 Internet—the Great World Equalizer Eliminates economic & structural barriers –Access to information anywhere in the world –With eBay, sellers have global reach without distributor costs Open Source—the hallmark of the “Participation Age” –Networks of people interact to solve problems Create meaningful content, connections & relationships Free & continuously improving IP Linux, Apache, Wikipedia –Challenges proprietary IP of the “Information Age”

6 Linear Knowledge Space Random Knowledge Space Knowledge Space

7 Open Education is … Transformative Tipping Point Big Idea Disruptive Change Changing education and learning Open Education

8 Open Education? How Open is Open? Can you build courses and curricula collaboratively? Can you trust the community? A role for everyone…….

9 “Open Source” refers to software that is created by a development community rather than a single vendor.  Programmed by volunteers from many organizations  Free and available to anyone who would like to use it or modify it What is Open Source Software? Open Source

10 What is Open Source Curricula (OSC)? Open learning requires access to quality curricula that is provided free and created and validated by the community Defined learning objectives Scope & sequence for instruction Lesson plans Textbooks & other instructional materials Teacher Training Student assessment Correlated to standards and frameworks

11 Who is Curriki? The first and only all-embracing Internet site for Open Source Curricula (OSC) –Single repository for validated curricula –Support & aggregate the work of others –Review & comments by subject matter experts –Curricula freely accessible through well-publicized portal Founded by Sun Microsystems in 2004 Created an independent 501(c)(3) in 2006

Our Mission To eliminate the Education Divide – the gap between those with opportunity and those without hope. 12 While Making the Planet a Better Place Our Promise Every student and educator will have access to quality curricula aligned to frameworks to support learning.

13 Curriki - Our Strategy Build a Repository of Open Source Curricula Create a Portal Build a Community of Educators Engage a Global Community

14 Curriki Website Visitors and Users Welcomed by Home Page Site offerings are clear (Find, Contribute, Connect) Minimal text, visually welcoming Dashboard of Curriki's expansion: "Watch Curriki Grow" panel Easy-to-find partner, content, and group highlights Animated definition of "Curriki = curriculum + wiki" clarifies site's intent

15 My Curriki My Curriki includes: Profile (photo, bio, settings, interests, etc.) Favorites (collect your favorite resources from the repository) Contributions (resources you have added or created) Collections (access to default collections) Blog (create your own blog) Groups (groups that you have joined)

16 FIND – CONTRIBUTE - CONNECT Search the Curriki open education repository for more than 18,000 content assets ranging from individual lesson plans to complete multimedia courses. Search the Curriki open education repository for more than 18,000 content assets ranging from individual lesson plans to complete multimedia courses. Find Collect lesson plans teaching activities, student worksheets, and more. Share resources with easy-to-use publishing templates to facilitate the sharing and creation of Open Source Curricula (OSC) and other instructional materials. Contribute Share your favorite curriculum resources to improve education globally. Collaborate with more than 45,000 members engaged in working together on curriculum development efforts. Connect Collaborate with teachers in your school or educators around the world. cur  ric  u  la + wi  ki cur  rik  i

17 FIND Find Learning Resources: Search repository Review Featured Resources or Featured Partner Content View by subject or search by keywords Locate materials reviewed and rated by Curriki’s experts

18 Rich Media Content

19 Thousands of Free & Reusable Learning Resources

20 CONTRIBUTE Contribute Learning Resources: Publish your best educational material for the world to see. Use materials in the repository to build your collection Get feedback from the community

21 Build Learning Resources Members Can Create Resources Using Forms Resource creation functions are included in the "main site." Members can create a wiki resource "from scratch" -- open editing window enables simple content authoring and formatting for worksheets, rubrics, activities, and more. Members can create a lesson plan using a form that offers Curriki's standard four-step template. Members can create a lesson plan using specialized forms. Forms link to Curriki Review System and models to support effective instructional design.

22 Create Personal Collections of Resources

23 Licensing and Creative Commons Assets may be designated as: –Public domain –Creative Commons attribution –Share alike –Non-derivative works Collections: –The greatest distribution possible –Your choice –Selecting a default asset designation

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25 CONNECT Collaborate with the community: Share a group space for accessing resources Work together on curriculum development projects Use message board to communicate to group members Highlight group resources and activities to recruit new members

26 Groups

27 Provides Global Access International UI with Hindi, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Bahasa created for release and other languages planned or in development.

28 Additional project and partner examples

29 In Summary With Curriki, teachers, educators and students can globally access and share: – Learning Resources – Expertise – Services – Tools – Techniques – Projects – Ideas

30 The Time is Now