Frequently Asked Questions
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Members include everyone from educators, students and parents, to instructional designers, and authors throughout the world.
- High Quality Free Resources:
The Curriki repository contains over tens of thousands of free K-12 lessons, units, assessments and multimedia learning objects across all subject areas. - Empowers Educators:
Curriki’s free platform enables educators to build their own curriculum by assembling Curriki resources, as well as their own, into collections similar to an iTunes playlist. - Helps Eliminate the Education Divide:
Curriki originated from the idea that technology can play a crucial role in breaking down the barriers of the Education Divide – the gap between those who have access to high-quality education and those who do not. Curriki helps bridge this divide by providing free and open resources to teachers who need them most. - Leads the Open Education Resource Movement:
Curriki is a leading force behind the OER movement - a movement based around the idea that teaching materials should be freely available for educators and students to use, mix, modify and share. - Engages in Dynamic Partnerships with a Global Reach:
Curriki partners with organizations in the US and abroad to develop multilingual educational content that supports local education initiatives and goals.
Curriki was conceived from the idea that technology can play a crucial role in breaking down the barriers of the Education Divide—the division of inequality that prevents children worldwide from access to quality education.
Today, educators are searching for ways to deliver first-class, cost-effective learning resources and opportunities to their students. Learners are becoming discouraged by the mounting costs for textbooks, and the availability of other credible resources.
Curriki makes learning possible for anyone, anywhere in the world.Open Educational Resources (OER) have been defined as “digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research” (UNESCO).
• Digital, free, and OPEN for anyone to use, adapt and redistribute
• Tools, content, and implementation resources
• For teachers, students and lifelong learners
The new age of the customized curriculum is actually dawning, and Curriki is leading the way in allowing educators to make what they need rather than work with what they are given. Teachers and students need high quality resources they can use legally to build interactive lessons, podcasts, multimedia presentation, etc.
- High quality educational content created by educators
- Quality ensured by Curriki’s Content Review Team
- Collaborative learning via a community where authors, teachers, and stud ents create, access, share, rate, recommend, and publish
- Develop 21st century college and career readiness
- Common Core Standards have been adopted in 39 states, Curriki members and content partners contribute lessons, units, and activities that have been aligned to state standards and the Common Core Standards.
- Foster strong professional development and support professional learning communities
- Curriki encourages the collaboration of diverse experiences from around the world to develop “best of breed” learning resources (peer-reviewed and classroom tested) and to create a culture of continuous improvement.
- Ensure effective use of data and accountability
- OERs give teachers the ability to remix and customize content, which is an important part of differentiating instruction.
There are a variety of ways to contribute curricula at www.curriki.org. You can use our unique online tools to share resources you've found with others. On a larger scale, you can write a textbook or build a curriculum. For instance, groups of teachers or professors can take a curriculum framework and use the tools to create and edit a book, or develop sections and pages of an instructional textbook. Our online editing tools enable users to select individual lesson plans, course syllabi, learning activities, scope and sequence hierarchies, and other educational elements found at www.curriki.org to build a complete, fully-integrated curriculum.
Curriki is led by a seasoned team of experts in the education and technology arenas. Their experience as teachers, authors and technologists has given them the hands-on understanding of what it takes to make quality and easy-to-use curricula. Curriki will expertly manage the curricula to ensure the community makes the best decisions. The right leadership, tools, and community will enable the development and distribution of quality curricula.
All Curriki editorial content is copyrighted by Curriki. These materials are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution license. More information about Copyright & Open Licenses.
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Yes, Curriki offers both free and paid options for training on EVERY feature of Curriki, as well as ways to incorporate Curriki Open Educational Resources into your classroom, school, library and district. Start by visiting our library of free Tutorial Videos.
Professional Development Workshops focus on innovative concepts and practices related to open education curriculum, digital and social learning. Curriki will show you how to use Open Educational Resources (OERs) with simple, step-by-step tools.
Each workshop can be delivered at your facility face to face, asynchronously online, or as a hybrid of the two delivery methods.
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Because helping others to learn and overcome the Education Divide is simply the right thing to do. With your input, we can help foster the exchange of ideas, whether among students and parents, or curriculum developers and educators, all in a global, interactive community that makes it fun and rewarding to make a difference. Your assistance can come in many important forms. Actively participate in our community. Use the curricula. Provide us with feedback. Support the community financially. And most importantly, spread the word.
Send an email to info@curriki.org.
