Curriculum 2.0: How to Find Awesome Open Source Curricula Online

Curriculum 2.0: How to Find Awesome Open Source Curricula Online

Presented by: Kim Jones, Joshua Marks and Christine Loew

Curriki

ISTE 2010 | Denver, CO

Who We Are

• A not-for-profit organization, Curriki drives a broad agenda towards global educational excellence.

• Curriki.org brings the best of digital life to education via open source, affordable and peer-reviewed content and collaboration tools that are used by teachers, students, parents and developers around the world.

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Our Impact

• 35,000+ free resources

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Today’s Presentation

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• Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OERs)

• What are they?

• Why use them?

• Where to find them?

• Introduction to using Curriki to:

• Find OERs

• Create OERs

• Share OERs

• Collaborate – Hands on activity

Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) - What are they?

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Open Educational Resources are:

• Digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research” (OECD, 2007).

• Educational materials and resources offered under some licenses to freely re-mix, adapt, improve and redistribute.

• All about sharing, so that teachers and learners can share what they know

• Not a product, but a community process.

Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) – Why use them?

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OER provides solutions for schools and districts, including:

• Content that is affordable, open, customizable, interactive and engaging

• Collaborative environment for teachers and learners

• Un-tethered learning that transcends the classroom

OER brings innovations in technology to education• Digitization....................................... Online Searchable Resources

• Networking...................................... Communities of Practice

• Crowd-Source model...................... Collaboration Worldwide

• Free and Open ……....................... Creative Commons Licenses

• App Store........................................ Shared Repository of Content

• User ratings.................................... Community Assessment/Peer Review

• Free distribution.............................. Open Access Free Hosted Services

Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) – Where to find them?

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CK-12 http://www.ck12.org

• The Flexbook model

Connexions http://www.cnx.org

• Content commons or small modules

Merlot http://merlot.org

• For faculty & students of higher education

OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu

• MIT course materials

OERCommons http://www.oercommons.org

• Network for OER content resources

OpenLearn http://openlearn.open.ac.uk

• LearningSpace (content) & LabSpace (collaboration)

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• An open resource repository

• A Personal content management tools set

• A Curriculum development and publishing platform

• A Group collaboration tool

• A local and global community process

• A movement to empower educators

• A way to reduce costs for learning resources

What is Curriki.org?

FIND OERs

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Browse by Subject Advanced Search Filters

Browse by State Standard

CREATE OERs

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Create collections and add resources of any media type

• Wiki or HTML pages

• Image files

• Audio Files (Pod casts)

• Video Files (We convert and stream)

• Interactive games (SWF files)

• Archive files and “Learning Objects”

• SCORM and Content packages

• Web links resources

• Files and documents of any type

• Or use one of our lesson plan and activity templates

CREATE OERs

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Forms and Templates

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Copyright & Licensing

Creative Commons Licenses

•Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd)

•Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa)

•Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc)

•Attribution No Derivatives (by-nd)

•Attribution Share Alike (by-sa)

•Attribution (by)

COLLABORATE with OERs

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OERi in the Classroom Professional Development

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Activity:

“Build-up” the Inbox collection and add your contribution.

Join us on the Web

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Any Questions?

Thank You!Kim Jones

Executive Director

kjones@curriki.org

Joshua MarksChief Technology Officer

jmarks@curriki.org

Christine LoewProgram Manager

cloew@curriki.org

• This presentation and other resources can be accessed on the ISTE 2010 Curriki Group:

http://ISTE2010.groups.curriki.org

• Curriculum 2.0 session evaluation available at:

http://www.surveymk.com/s/byol-opensource_eval