Windows, Mirrors, Gates

Silt Happens

Challenges and Opportunities

At 59 million, teachers

are the largest

professionally-trained

group in the world

High-tech; high-touch; high-teach

Teacher members: 183 countries

30,000+ offline and online members

The cost for teachers remains at $0

1.3 million radio listeners per week The Voice of Teachers

Facts/Highlights: 10th Year Anniversary

Certificate of Teaching Mastery

Demand-driven; globally conceived; locally led

What Members Have Created

Emergency Education

TWB Toolset

Community Evaluation

Millennium Development Ambassadors

Online; Seminars; Books; “Voice of Teachers” radio

Certificate of Teaching Mastery

Five free, demand-driven courses

Self-paced and mentor supported

Multilingual subtitling, translation

Groups that surround content

Portfolios that advance careers

Millennium Development Ambassadors

Open Educational Resources; single sign-on; multilingual; modular

TWB Toolset and Open Educational Resources

Content-Collaboration-Community

Global Social Network

Customizable Groups

Courseware

Visual News

Community Evaluation

A Hard Question

Problem: “I can rate and provide feedback on a

restaurant, but how come I can’t rate or show impacts on

projects in my community?”

SMS-enabled Tools; Support; Accountability; Transparency

Emergency Education

New Earthquakes:Urgent Need for Information

• China: Last Wednesday

• Afghanistan: Sunday

Bulls & Mosquitoes

What Does This Have to do with OER?

People: online and offline

Radio and CD

Booklets: 104,000 for teachers;1.8 million for students

Translation, localization, excellent science, teaching for safety

Despite Obstacles…