Curriki.org Provides Peer Reviewed Open Source Educational Learning Materials
 

Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. Curriki has nearly 100,000 registered members and more than 400 groups with access to more than 32,000 free open source learning assets.

URL: http://www.curriki.org

Curriki is an online community for creating and sharing K–12 open source curricula, a resource that can help provide a low-cost and innovative solution to many of our teaching and learning challenges in districts and schools.

Curriki is a social entrepreneurship organization that supports the development and free distribution of open source educational materials to improve education worldwide.  The online community gives teachers, students and parents universal access to peer-reviewed K-12 curricula and powerful online collaboration tools.

More than just a collection of educational resources, Curriki supports schools and school districts by helping them:

1. Save costs on purchasing teaching resources – on average, school systems spend $4,500 on teaching resources per teacher. By using the free and Open Educational Resources available on Curriki, you can reduce that cost by at least 50%

2. Provide dynamic teaching resources - Curriki liberates school systems from the static method of teaching and learning, and helps all educators innovate in their classrooms on a daily basis, which we know can lead to increased student achievement 

3. Innovate at All Levels - Curriki connects principals and districts to a community of innovative educational professionals from around the world 

4. Manage Valuable Knowledge - Curriki ensures that even if teachers leave the system, their knowledge is still available for use in schools

Curriki has nearly 100,000 registered members and more than 400 groups with access to more than 32,000 free, open source learning assets. Curriki logs more than 175,000 unique visitors per month from teachers representing more than 200 countries/territories around the world. Curriki's impact is measured by the global usage of its instructional resources, which are currently being used to teach more than an estimated 4.7 million students around the world.

If you are interested in obtaining more information about Curriki, please check out their website at www.curriki.org

Join Curriki.org Today for Free
Curriki is a hot bed of inspiring activities that change the world for the better; a place to collaborate, to create and to learn. To join forces with Curriki, please visit www.curriki.org. When you join Curriki (at no cost), you can find resources, contribute resources and connect with other educators.

About Curriki
A not-for-profit organization with 120,000 members, over 35,000 learning assets and more than 1.6 million unique visitors per year, Curriki drives a broad agenda towards global educational excellence via open source peer-reviewed content, open access, and collaboration tools for teachers, students and parents worldwide. 

Posted by Eric Ward on 8/2/10

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