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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