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Welcome to Curriki News; see what people are saying about us.eSchool News Online: Curriki offers new world of course content
Dubbed the "Wikipedia of curriculum" by its creators, the online community
known as Curriki -- accessible at www.curriki.org -- aims to provide a place online
where educators from anywhere in the world can post curricula and lesson plans
for review and use by fellow classroom teachers.
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International Herald Tribune: Sun Microsystems chair touts open-source education for K-12 kids
Since Sun Microsystems Inc. co-founder Scott McNealy
stepped down as chief executive to focus on his chairmanship full-time, he has
been spearheading a side project to transform education the way digital music
upended the recording industry.
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Ed Tech Review: A Wiki for Education
Website: http://www.curikki.org -- Grade: A -- Cost: Free
I love Wikipedia, and feel that it provides a valuable resource for all of us. Yes, there are some inherent pitfalls because the community at large can edit the information, but in general the information is very good and accurate. This type of media where the community provides the content can be very powerful and can be a great resource for all of us. This type of application is a perfect way for teachers around the world to get together and share lesson plans, resources, worksheets, video, and websites. The people at Curriki have developed and promoted a web site for educators that allow us to use this powerful WIKI technology.
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Technology & Learning: A Crossroads in the Ed Tech Industry
The featured speaker was Barbara Kurshan, executive director of Curriki, the new open source Web learning community where educators can both post and download free multimedia school resources from around the globe. More than remaining simply an elephant in the room, the question was asked directly: "If you're giving away content for free, where does that leave us?" Kurshan, who thanked the group for "not throwing tomatoes at me," outlined the vision of the Web 2.0 resource as an "imprint" that would work in tandem with the publishers' proprietary content. Though the presentation ended on a note of low-key skepticism, it was hard to shake the feeling of having witnessed a crossroads moment in the history of the ed tech industry. I guess we'll stay tuned to see how things unfold.
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Hewlett Foundation Open Educational Resources Report
A comprehensive review and facing forward look of the OER field from:
Dan Atkins, Director of Cyberinfrastructure at NSF;
John Seely Brown, former Chief Scientist of Xerox, Director of PARC, and
Allen Hammond, World Resources Institute.
Just released, A Review of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: Achievement, Challenges and New Opportunities. Please distribute, read, digest and discuss here at OERderves. This report examines The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation?s past investments in Open Educational Resources, the emerging impact and explores future opportunities.
Central to the report is the idea of ?The Brewing Perfect Storm? and the creation of an Open Participatory Learning Infrastructure.
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Techlearning: The Case for Open Source
In these days of tightened belts, accelerated global competition, and a growing need to equip both educators and students with the skills they need to innovate, more and more districts are exploring the open source option. Essentially, open source software differs from commercially developed, or closed source, software in that the application's source code is publicly distributed and available for modification by users. Open source relies to a great extent on the free software movement. In this context, the term free refers not to cost but to the freedom users have to modify the source code.
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Educause Review: Open Source 2010: Reflections on 2007
Much has happened since the 2004 prognostications of my EDUCAUSE Review article "Open Source 2007: How Did This Happen?" The article peered into the future through the lens of two possible outcomes for open-source application software by 2007. In the first scenario, higher education and commercial firms overcame many challenges to evolve a new "community source" model for developing and sustaining enterprise-scale, quality software. In the second scenario, the obstacles for collaboration and coordination of investments were simply too great: institutions could not find ways to agree. The article thesis asserted that the actual outcome for 2007 would reflect the collective actions of colleges and universities. For those of us in higher education, it was our outcome to choose …
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Curriki named Edutopia's 'Best site to download free lessons 2007'
Free Wiki
One of the most promising sources of free classroom lessons we've seen recently is Curriki, created by the computer giant Sun Microsystems. Think Wikipedia for educators, students, administrators, and parents. Scott McNealy, chairman of Sun, launched the site late last year, callingPokra?ovat ve ?tení
How to fix your kids' education for $200m
The same trip to Beijing provided us time to sit down with Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy to discuss, of all things, his views on education. McNealy was in town to announce the second version of something called Curriki, during an education conference. One day later Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates unveiled 3 versions of Windows in the same city. It's funny what these Chairmen get up to.
For the unfamiliar, Curriki is McNealy's pet project around what you might call open source education.
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McNealy says Sun evaluating OpenSolaris on GPL
by John Ribeiro, IDG News Service
10/05/2007 10:54:23
Sun Microsystems is evaluating whether it should release OpenSolaris under the GNU GPL (general public license), company co-founder and chairman, Scott McNealy told reporters in Bangalore on a conference call Wednesday.
OpenSolaris, the open-source version of Sun's Solaris operating system, has so far been open sourced by Sun under
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