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
• 1.6 million+ unique visitors / year
(from every country)
• 120,000+ contributing members
• 16 million+ students reached/year
• 500+ social networks & groups
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Today’s Presentation
• Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OERs)
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What are they?
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Why use them?
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Where to find them?
• Introduction to using Curriki to:
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Find OERs
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Create OERs
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Share OERs
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Collaborate – Hands on activity
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Introduction to Open Educational Resources
(OER) - What are they?
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.
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Introduction to Open Educational Resources
(OER) – Why use them?
OER provides solutions for schools and districts, including:
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Content that is affordable, open, customizable, interactive and engaging
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Collaborative environment for teachers and learners
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Un-tethered learning that transcends the classroom
OER brings innovations in technology to education
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Digitization.......................................
Online Searchable Resources
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Networking......................................
Communities of Practice
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Crowd-Source model......................
Collaboration Worldwide
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Free and Open …….......................
Creative Commons Licenses
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App Store........................................
Shared Repository of Content
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User ratings....................................
Community Assessment/Peer Review
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Free distribution..............................
Open Access Free Hosted Services
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Introduction to Open Educational Resources
(OER) – Where to find them?
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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What is Curriki.org?
• 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
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FIND OERs
Browse by Subject
Advanced Search Filters
Browse by
State Standard
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CREATE OERs
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
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CREATE OERs
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)
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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.
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Join us on the Web
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Any Questions?
• 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
Thank You!
Kim Jones
Joshua Marks
Christine Loew
Executive Director
Chief Technology Officer
Program Manager
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