Friday, October 8, 2010

Education Technology News: Free Teacher-Developed K-12 Open Source Curriculum

Education Technology News: Free Teacher-Developed K-12 Open Source Curriculum

Free Teacher-Developed K-12 Open Source Curriculum

By Calvin Azuri, TMCnet Contributor


Eleven K-12 teachers have been recognized for their work by Curriki, as part of its 2010 Summer of Content challenge. The teachers have developed an instructional unit in science, technology, and math, and ELL/ESL for K-12 grades under this challenge. Cash awards have been awarded to the teachers by Curriki for the same. K-12 open source curricula are created and shared by the online community.


Teachers across the world can use or adapt these new instructional units to enhance their existing curriculum. These will not only save valuable time for teachers but also provide interactive and new ideas.

Instructional units, which included support material for teachers, were granted the 2010 Summer of Content awards. The support material provided was in the form of activities,