Caroline, I am copying this to Peter Levy, the Curriki person you need for the purpose of setting up partnerships. He's been very helpful in answering my Curriki questions.
Peter, This is a neat project. Beautiful things may happen when you connect. Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your own, to make your own math. On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Caroline Meeks <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris, > I think the right answer is to put our materials on both your system and > Curriki for now and hopefully an automated interoperable system will emerge. > I am very interested in collaborating with OLE and in making materials > accessible to schools without internet access. Please talk more about how > your system supports these environments. I have not yet reached out to the > Curriki people to try to create a partnership. Are you in communication > with them? > For the Moodle advocates. I am a big Moodle fan. But I don't think its our > right now solution for the work we are talking about doing. > > Our target, elementary school teachers are not currently using either Moodle > or Sugar, adding both at once makes the learning curve even harder. > We are focusing on lesson plans in the 1 hour and even 20-minute groupwork > time frames. Moodle is more focused on longer time frames. > We are focusing on what the teacher will do and what the class will do both > online and offline during the lesson as well as learning goals, standards, > help for the teacher in differentiating the lesson etc. Think the teachers > guide for the text book. Moodle is more focused on what the student is doing > online. Its not a very natural fit. > Moodle has tremendous promise in terms of reducing teacher workload. Here > is an example of what I hope that in the future Moodle will be able to: > > Provide a link that students click and they open a Write document that is a > template/scaffolding for a specific assignment, say writing a scientific > argument. > When the document is saved it is automatically turned in as Homework in > Moodle allowing the teacher to review and comment on the document from > anywhere, even on days when the class does not see the science teacher. > > however, these features aren't there yet. Once they are there will be a > large payoff for teachers to learn Moodle. However, I still see Moodle as > just one format teachers will use. Other lessons and other teachers and > other contexts may still want to print out a pdf. Other times a teacher may > just be browsing for a sample lesson to be used as inspiration to create a > quite different lesson. > Thanks, > Caroline > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Chris Rowe <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Caroline, >> >> We at Open Learning Exchange (OLE) have been working towards a solution >> for this over the past 2 years and have a working prototype with the most >> basic functionality we think is needed. You are welcome to try it out at >> library.ole.org >> >> There are several sites on the web that are trying to create a place for >> curriculum to be shared but none of them that I know of are addressing the >> needs of developing countries. We have done a lot of work to address the >> diverse needs of countries with limited internet access and feel we have a >> solution that will be very powerful in the near future. >> >> We are working with our centers around the world to identify the key >> success factors in making a Global Learning Library as well as several >> partners like the Siyavula project in South Africa and Connexions at Rice >> University to leverage existing work done in this area. >> >> In addition, we have begun talks with Sugarlabs to use our library as a >> repository of educational materials that incorporate sugar activities. It >> would be very helpful for us to get your feedback on what we have and to >> work with you on integrating it with your work and the work of the Sugarlabs >> community. >> >> Some of my thoughts on other solutions. >> >> Sugarlabs wiki: There is too much other content on the sugarlabs wiki that >> is not relevant to teachers. Just like activities.sugarlabs.org is a place >> to find and download activities I think we need a place designed >> specifically for curriculum materials. >> >> Moodle: Moodle is a great tool for creating structured, interactive lesson >> plans and for deploying them in classrooms but it is not designed as a >> library or repository of materials. Our plan is to start by allowing people >> to create Moodle courses and share them on our library for others to >> download and use on their own Moodle servers. We are also working with a >> developer to integrate work he has done on Moodle import/export into our >> library in the future. >> >> Curriki: Curriki is the closest thing to what we think is needed but it >> lacks the ability to be deployed on a country by country basis. We feel >> strongly that a learning library needs to be customizable for each country, >> each school and even each student. >> >> Curriculum alignment: There are many features that we we feel are an >> integral part of making a library of curriculum materials successful that we >> have not implemented in our library yet. Curriculum alignment is at the top >> of that list. Because of the complexity of many of the worlds curriculum >> standards we want to make sure we do not overload teachers with too much >> information. >> >> Chris >> >> Chris Rowe, CTO >> Open Learning Exchange >> +1 (512) 553-0852 | skype: eworsirhc >> http://ole.org >> Sent from Austin, TX, United States > > > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > [email protected] > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
