IMPROVING TEACHER CAPACITY AN OPEN SOURCE MODEL FOR

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

The World Today ions or Comments? 3 Million Users Each Day Transactions Are Accelerating Massive Amounts of Data 2

The New Reality: The Participation Age ions or Comments? Everyone and Everything Participating on the Network 3

Our Mission: Eliminate the Education Divide ions or Comments? While Making the Planet Better Off 4

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. 3 B spent in US for textbooks – College textbook market in flux and “chaos” – Teacher education programs inadequate • UN “Millennium Goal” 5 – By 2015 every child in the world can complete primary

Internet—the Great World Equalizer • Eliminates economic & structural barriers – Access to information anywhere in the world – With e. Bay, 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” 6

Knowledge Space Linear Knowledge Space Random Knowledge Space 7

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

A more efficient economic model Tuition and taxes 1/3 Infrastructure & Operations 1/3 Instructors 2/3 Instructors, Professors, Researchers, & Curriculum Specialists 1/3 Published Materials Free and Customized Materials 9

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 10

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 11

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 12

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

The Curriki Web Site 14

Provides Global Access International UI with Hindi, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Bahasa created for release and other languages planned or in development. 15

View a User’s Collection 16

Additional project and partner examples 17

Rich Media Foundation Courses in Math and Science 18

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 19

Create personal collections of resources 20

Groups 21

Messages and Discussion Topics 22

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

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. 24

Questions or Comments? 25