1. IMPROVING TEACHER CAPACITY
AN OPEN SOURCE MODEL FOR CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT IN INDONESIA
Dr. Barbara Kurshan
Executive Director

2. The World Today 3 Million Users Each Day Transactions Are Accelerating
Massive Amounts of Data
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3. The New Reality: The Participation Age
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Everyone and Everything Participating on the Network

4. Our Mission: Eliminate the Education Divide
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While Making the Planet Better Off

5. The Challenge 100 million children without access to primary school
India: 40% of children will not complete 4 years of school
US: 40% of students in the lowest economic quartile drop out
Indonesia: Only 20% of the teachers have bachelor degrees in education
Cost of textbooks
$4.3B spent in US for textbooks
College textbook market in flux and “chaos”
Teacher education programs inadequate
UN “Millennium Goal”
By 2015 every child in the world can complete primary school

6. 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”

7. Knowledge Space
Linear Knowledge Space
Random Knowledge Space

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

9. A more efficient economic model
Tuition and taxes
Tuition and taxes
1/3 Infrastructure
& Operations
1/3 Infrastructure
& Operations
2/3 Instructors, Professors, Researchers, & Curriculum Specialists
1/3 Published Materials
1/3 Instructors
+ Benefits of Open Curricula for Educational Organizations
- Invest in Human Capital instead of buying Intellectual Property
- Reduce Barriers to Entry (Access to Knowledge)
- Speed Innovation
-- Leverage your human capital
-- Create Customized programs leveraging the work of others
-- Build global content sharing partnerships
- Provided added value services
-- Certification and assessment
-- Program Development
-- Professional Development
-- Consulting, tutorial and lecture services
- Better interoperability
- Content in Curriki is designed to run everywhere, on- and off-line, it is not locked into proprietary system or formats.
- Greater Access to Talent
- Build a brand globally
Free and Customized Materials

10. What is Open Source Software?
“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

11. 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

12. 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

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

14. The Curriki Web Site
Visit and Log-in as user:curriki password:demo
Mention that Membership is required to participate in the community

15. Provides Global Access
International UI with Hindi, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Bahasa created for release and other languages planned or in development.
Be sure to try this before you demo as you many need to install special fonts to see Hindi on the site.
Add “?language=hi” to the end of the URL to see Hindi, and then add “?language=en” to go back to English
To use the “Next.Dev.Curriki.Org” server there is an extra initial log-in (user:demo pass:gelc)

16. View a User’s Collection
Athabasca ESL-

17. Additional project and partner examples
UCCP
Road of Life
WLC
Merit Software
NROC
NRTA
ACE
FHSST
UK Innovation Project
Australian Curriculum Corporation
Athabasca University
HelpProgram
Listen for Life
OLPC
CFEE
Many many more.

18. Rich Media Foundation Courses in Math and Science
+ NROC and The University of California are dedicated to providing college prep materials so under privileges students can enter higher education prepared to learn.
- High quality interactive courses with assessment
NROC Algebra -
Environmental Science
Biology: and as an example

19. Access to Thousands of Free and Reusable Learning Resources
Over 10,000 learning resources in all subject areas and levels
Resource contribution rate accelerating
Close to 40,000 members world wide
Over 300 full courses in many core subject areas
Hundreds of interactive lessons
Monthly visits from over 150 countries
+ Browse and Search for Learning Resource or Project Groups.
- Filter by: Subject, Level, Resource Type, Review Status, Other (Language, Media, Format, Licenses, etc.)
- About 9,000 resources as of today, and growth is accelerating. Almost 10K is a reasonable rounding.
- Resources and Members from around the globe
- search returns 202 Full courses, 295 units of instruction and 1113 lesson plans.

20. Create personal collections of resources
+ Each Curriki Member Can Manage and Create Personal Collections of Resources
- Rob has over 20 topical collections in Curriki.
- Rob is a alumni of a group called Teach for America (TFA). TFA is using Curriki to share the work of all of its students and alumni in a Curriki Group.
Click on the Collections Tab to see Robs Collections.
Talk about Rob as an example member- Now at Stanford getting a post Graduate degrade. Rob is a Member of Teach for America. He spend some time over the summer porting content he and other TFA teacher created. This is a pilot for more work with TFA and similar organizations that have large numbers of resources and no place to put them.

21. Groups + Groups Features - Create ‘Open’ or ‘Closed’ groups
- Invite and manage membership
- Managed Shared collections
- Messages and discussion topics
- Notifications and RSS feeds

22. Messages and Discussion Topics

23. In Summary
With Curriki, organizations and individuals can globally access and share:
Learning Resources
Expertise
Services
Tools
Techniques
Projects
Ideas
Knowledge

24. Together we can eliminate the Education Divide.
The Time is Now
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.

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