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Robert Greenawalt , CTO, 2007 Laureate Laureates‘ Seminar of

UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education

13 January 2016, UNESCO HQ, Paris

Inspiring Learning Everywhere

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“Curriki helps teachers inspire learning in their students and inspires students to learn more everyday”

• Curriki = Curriculum + Wiki

• US based non-profit serving the Global Education and Learning Community

• Started by Sun Microsystems in 2004 • Focused on primary and secondary education (K-12)

• Supports multi-languages

• Repository for over 80,000 OERs

Mission

Curriki’s driving mission is to make education more equitable through our global Open Educational Resource (OER) community of educators, parents, and students, which will enable teachers to make learning more personalized and help students reach their full potential.

Target Audience • Curriculum Teams: Curriki provides private and open group spaces for

members to collaborate on curriculum development, share ideas, and provide support for one another.

• Educators: Curriki provides a seemingly endless library of materials—from full courses to individual instructional videos and games that teachers and homeschoolers find invaluable.

• Parents: Curriki has pre-screened and reviewed materials so parents can easily find what they are looking for to help their children.

• Pre-service and New Teachers: They can find proven activities and materials shared by experienced educators from around the world.

• Students: Students can find educational material to supplement classroom instruction.

Funding

• Our funding comes principally through donations and grants

Curriki Team • Kim Jones – CEO

• Janet Pinto – Chief Academic Officer & Chief Marketing Officer

• Robert Greenawalt – Chief Technology Officer

• Kate Driscoll – VP Partnerships

2007 Description

Curriki is a comprehensive internet portal, tool set and user service designed to develop, aggregate, evaluate and support the best open source curricula, catering to the requirements of all age groups and all learning interests. Curriki has established a vibrant virtual community of teachers, learners, parents, ministries of education, schools, as well as public and private organizations. It has a comprehensive online, open and collaborative repository of educational resources that enables learners, teachers and parents to add content to existing curricula. Curriki’s 5,000 learning objects in many languages are used regularly by 30,000 people.

Lessons Learned

• Users prefer curated and vetted content. • In the United States, users want content that is aligned to educational

standards. • We’ve found that it takes work to entice teachers to contribute to the OER

repository and in the group forums. • We started with a focus toward building our library and getting individual

users. Now our focus is on institutional adoption of OER (and Curriki) and curating OERs into usable course scope.

• We’ve seen a shift in audience: more homeschoolers and students instead of primarily individual teachers.

Scaling up and Enhancements

• 2007 • 5,000 OERs • 30,000 members

• 2016 • 82,895 OERs • 456,545 members • 11,355,026 unique visitors • 887 groups • Through teachers we reach over 200M students around the world

• Japan and Finland partnerships • August 2015 – Launched a complete redesign of website

Key Features of Curriki 2.0

• Modern design and responsive to varying device screen sizes

• More User friendly • Simpler search • Enhanced group/collaboration functionality • Improved performance and stability

Goals going forward

• Develop multi-language portals • Develop a student portal • Continue to add high-quality OERs • Facilitate discussion on education and teaching resources • Expand the reach and use of OERs

Qingdao Declaration Concurrence

• Continue to serve as a repository for and evaluate Open Educational Resources (OERs).

• Continue to utilize Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).

• Continue to allow access to our repository of OERs irrespective of gender, disabilities, social or economic status or geographic location.

• Continue to provide a repository for lifelong learning OERs, including technical and vocational education and training.

How can we partner with you?

How can we spread the word about Curriki?

bob@curriki.org

www.curriki.org