Dr. Barbara Kurshan Executive Director [email protected] Global Education & Learning Community.

Dr. Barbara KurshanExecutive Director

[email protected]

Global Education & Learning Community

The Future of Education

Where Knowledge is Not Proprietary

How Open is Open?

Can you collaboratively develop curricula?

Can you and should you trust the community?

The Education Divide

Education makes a measurable and positive difference

Universal Access is Needed

• Quality education• Curricula & Instructional Materials• Qualified Instructors

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”

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Linear Knowledge Space

Random Knowledge Space

Knowledge Space

Education Errors

•Classrooms are the primary delivery device•Teachers are “sages on stages” instead of “guides on the side•Students are products instead of partners•Stakeholders do not need to be connected 100% of the time•Words and text have a monopoly on literacy•Testing will tell us what is happening and who is succeeding

Dangerous Ideas

TransformativeTipping Point

Big IdeasDisruptive Change

Changing education and learning

Ways to Change Education

Digital StorytellingOpen-source textbooks

Online Learninghttp://www.edutopia.org/node/2973

Open Source Curricula

What is Open Source?

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

Open Source Curricula

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

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source#education

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Challenges

Intellectual Property

Interoperability

Cultural

Sustainability

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 Solution and Our Strategy

• SolutionThe best source of world-class

learning—any curriculum, just a click away.

• Strategy• Create a Portal• Build a Community of Educators• Build a Repository of Open Source Curricula • Engage a Global Community

http://www.curriki.org

Calculushttp://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Demo/nrocCourses

Open-source textbookshttp://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Demo/fhsstChapters

Digital Storytellinghttp://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Demo/DigitalStoryTelling

Show Me the Future

Build a Community of Educator Volunteers

Ministries of Education & Volunteers build OSC1. Define Objectives2. Define Pedagogy3. Define components to be in the course4. Search repository for content (viewable or editable)5. View, create, edit6. Community review7. Publish/Collaborate8. Test effectiveness9. Continuous loop back to 1

How Open is Open?

Can you collaboratively develop curricula?

Can you and should you trust the community?

Though it will require a sustained & persistent effort, the time is now to build a digital

crossroads among those who can teach & those who want to learn.

Together we can eliminate the Education Divide.

The Time is Now

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