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Education in the Cloud?

Nava Levy, Founder of LerGO – Educate Yourself

Challenges & Opportunities of Leveraging Cloud Technologies to Democratize Kids Education

Education in the Cloud? Challenges & Opportunities of Leveraging Cloud Technologies to Democratize Kids Education

Cloud Technology

OpportunitiesChallenges

Outline

• The context – the significance of democratizing kids education

• The Opportunities Cloud Presents

• And… the Key Challenges

• A bit about LerGO

What is your dream?

And yet, most kids need to complement public education …

Now running Indiegogo campaign to free kids’ education – learn more.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lergo-free-kids-education


Public Education Private Lessons

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…with costly private lessons




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Israel Korea India

Most Kids Are Taking Costly Private Lessons

“Costs associated with shadow education are staggering”

Source: Wikipedia, Private Tutoring

Source: Wikipedia, Meizav Israel




Social Gap Increasing

Prof Reardon, Stanford, April 2013

“No Rich Kid Left Behind….Whatever we’ve been doing in our schools, it hasn’t reduced educational inequality between children from upper- and lower-income families…

“….private tutoring

can…maintain and

exacerbate social

inequalities"

Source: Wikipedia



Who will Come to the Rescue?

Technology? Government?

Business Sector? Community?



First, let’s talk about “how”

"You can create a situation where education is democratized. You can set up a cloud that gathers the best lectures in the world, and you can send them to every home...If you want to connect to this cloud million children….”

President of Israel, Shimon Peres, TheMarker



Ubiquity and Rapidly Dropping Prices: Internet, Social, Mobile, Big Data, End User Devices

Cloud Technology is Key for Transformation





Cloud Technology

OpportunitiesChallenges




Technology

Government?

Business Sector?

Community?

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Technology

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Cloud Technology Infrastructure is key, but what about the content?




Business Sector?

Difficult to show direct ROI, leading to market

failure




Technology

Government?

Business Sector?

Community?

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Technology

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Cloud Technology Infrastructure is key, but what about the content?




The CognitiveSurplus “cognitive surplus…represents the

ability of the world's population to volunteer and to contribute and collaborate on large, sometimes global, projects.

The world has over a trillion hours a year of free time to commit to shared projects. Now, that free time existed in the 20th century, but we didn't get Ushahidi in the 20th century. That's the secondhalf of cognitive surplus."

Dr. Clay Shirky,

NYU, in TED



The Community!

NGO, OER,OSSCrowdSourcing




The Emergence of Open Educational Resources (OER)

Definition: “Open Educational Resources aredigital learning resources offered online … freelyand openly to teachers, educators, students, andindependent learners in order to be used,shared, combined, adapted, and expanded inteaching, learning and research.”

(Source: OECD)




Examples for OER Initiatives

All were initiated by non-profit ventures and all, except edX, are Crowd Sourced based platforms




What about Open Source Software?

It’s not just the content that is Open & Free in OER - it’s also the software!

OER Definition (cont.): “…They include learning content, software tools to develop, use and distribute, and implementation resources such as open licenses.”

(Source: OECD)




There are also Independent OSS Initiatives Helping Democratize Education – Key Examples for eLearning

Audio Recording

Screen Recording

Virtual learning environment

Animation




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Challenges





• Ubiquity & Cost of Technology

• Creative commons, Open Source Software

• Open Educational Resources Movement

• Opportunities • Challenges• Finding the right lesson

with the right quality

• Usability: Interactivity & Animation

• Language & culture barriers

• Privacy & Trust issues

Interim SummaryChallenges & Opportunities of Leveraging Cloud Technologies to Democratize Kids Education




Overcoming Challenges: Orchestration for finding the right lesson at the right quality

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Overcoming Challenges- Usability: Adding Animation


../Desktop/LerGO Welcome & middle.mp4

../Desktop/LerGO Welcome & middle.mp4



Creating a Lesson Playlist

Adding Online Quiz

Overcoming Challenges- Usability: Adding Interactivity & Feedback

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Link to animated intro

Link YouTube/SlideShare

Link to quiz

Link to animated endingAdding Feedback & Reporting



Overcoming Challenges –Creating a multi lingual & cultural platform from day one


../Desktop/LerGO Welcome Hebrew.mp4

../Desktop/LerGO Welcome Hebrew.mp4



Overcoming Challenges –Non-profit models to overcome trust issues and conflicting interests




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Summary




Summary



About LerGOwww.lergo.org

•LerGO is a new non-profit social venture dedicated to self education•Our goal is to provide every child with free access to high quality, interactive and animated online lessons•This will be made possible via LerGO's open source cloud platform that will harness the goodwill of the community, enabling it to easily create educational content

•LerGO is led by Nava Levy with the help of talented volunteers who are experts in technology, education and design. Interested in joining us and making a difference?

Click here to view our Indiegogo

campaign to learn more!



With your help, we can make it happen! Please support our Indiegogo Campaign

LerGO – Free Kids’ Education


