Peter LEVY for “Curriki”
Organisation: Curriki
Country: USA
Scale of the project: International
Educational level: K-12 Curriculum Development
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Who is Peter Levy?
Peter Levy has more than 15 years of experience working at the cross-section of technology and education. For Curriki, Peter directs all ongoing partnership arrangements with for-profit publishers, not-for-profit organisations and Ministries of Education. An author of articles, blog postings and a contributor to several books, Peter is also a frequent presenter of new models for the use of open educational resources. Before joining Curriki, Peter served in senior leadership positions at several for-profit educational technology companies.
What is Curriki?
Curriki is an independent non-profit organisation that, since 2006, has been seeking to harness the power of technology and the global educator community to eliminate the educational divide that persists throughout the world.Curriki builds a web-based platform that provides users with the tools and services necessary to develop, aggregate, evaluate and support Open Educational Resources (OER). It is a collaborative, international workspace that offers educators the opportunity to work together or independently to individualise instruction and create and customise high-quality instructional materials, all at no charge.
Using Web 2.0 technology, the Curriki site offers a community of nearly 90,000 registered members over 180 countries around the world three core sets of functionality.
First, it helps them find individual learning resources and build collections of resources from the Curriki repository of open educational resources. This includes learning assets that cover a full range of subject areas for primary and secondary students and that can be tailored for specific educational technology, including interactive white boards.
Second, it empowers teachers across the globe to share their best lessons or units of study. By contributing to the Curriki repository, they can find the resources they need, when they need them, all open and without cost.
Third, it invites teachers to work together to create new curricular materials using the site’s easy-to-use collaboration tools. Teachers down the hall and across the oceans can build connections around highly targeted communities of interest to create a broad array of new instructional materials.
Future perspectives:
Going forward, Curriki will continue harnessing the power of technology and the global educator community to eliminate the education divide that persists throughout the world. Curriki intends to become self-sufficient in the next five years and is targeting a membership of one million teachers by 2014.
At the dawn of a remarkable new age in education, Curriki is boldly challenging the traditional publishing paradigm and changing the way educators teach and the way students learn around the world.
Featured stakeholders and partners:
AT&T, UNESCO, I2G Intergeo, Atomic Learning, LearniT-TeachiT, Learn Without Limits, learnthings Africa, Education Development Center (EDC), NROC, NRTA, Sesame Workshop's Panwapa, Bluebox Devices, Southeast Asian Ministers of Education, The Consortium for Research in School Pedagogy, Merit Software.
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Website: www.curriki.org
