Curriki is featured on Voice of America's Special English Development Report. Download or listen to an MP3 of the radio broadcast, or read the transcript.
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A computer game designed to teach non-violence and conflict resolution skills to young children has found a home with Curriki, a nonprofit open-source educational Web site which will make it freely available for downloading by classrooms and families across the United States and around the world.
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Scott McNealy and Mike Zafirovski, the CEO of Canada's Nortel Networks Corp., are looking to the Internet to bridge what they call the digital and educational divides. They are co-ordinating their websites into what they say will be one of the world's largest, free online sources of educational materials for teachers and students.
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Dr. Barbara Kurshan discusses the partnership between Curriki and Nortel LearniT and their goal of building a combined free online forum for creating and sharing instructional materials.
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Working to ensure today’s students are prepared to compete globally in the 21st century, Nortel LearniT and Curriki have formed an alliance to co-ordinate their websites into one of the world’s largest, free online sources of educational materials.
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Curriki has been selected as the best site for free online educational content by Learn Without Limits as the home for Publish Without Limits and Zublisher. Curriki’s aim is to “make learning possible for anyone, anywhere in the world” which is identical to the mission for Publish Without Limits and Zublisher.
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Are global education communities like Curriki the future of education?

"I believe open source will have a significant impact on the development and sharing of instructional materials. Open source curricula are created by the aggregate knowledge of the community which is enhanced by the power of social networking. Education will be improved around the world by bringing together communities that are able to mix and remix open source educational content."
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As a little girl, Barbara Kurshan dreamed of one day becoming an astronaut or a doctor. Time has helped her define her goal and at the end it was neither one of these options. Her destiny lay with education and for 11 years she worked as a teacher until one day the idea of joining technology with education took hold of her. “Growing up, I knew that I wanted to work with children and computers in one way or another,” recalls Kurshan. “But that was a radical idea at the time, particularly for women.”
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SMART Technologies announces the addition of 100 SMART-created lesson activities to Curriki. These interactive lesson activities for Notebook collaborative learning software are designed for K­12 teachers. The activities include embedded Adobe, Flash, multimedia files as well as colorful and descriptive graphics. Each one is designed to encourage interactivity in the classroom. Curriki's use of open-source content allows users to comment, edit and group together curricular materials to create a lesson. Teachers can adapt or revise lesson plans to suit their students' needs.
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KnowledgeWorks Foundation has announced a new collaboration agreement with Curriki. The collaboration aims to further the website's mission of creating a community for teachers to develop open source learning resources that are free to anyone. To support that goal, KnowledgeWorks has agreed to share expertise it gained from founding Educator's Knowledge Network, an online professional learning community for American teachers involved in its high school reform efforts.
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