Gooru
For An Open Source Platform That Enables Better Discovery, Insights, And Use Of OER
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Amount$600,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/20/2018
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Term18.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
GOORU is an education technology nonprofit with the mission to honor the human right to education. Gooru has developed a free, open Learning Navigator: a "GPS for learning." Learning Navigator focuses on students’ current knowledge, skills, and mindsets and uses extensively curated OER to navigate students to their learning goals. Gooru aims to enrich the open resources catalogue and develop tools to enhance mathematics learning. The personalized pathways for students will be guided by principles based on the science of learning.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.goorulearning.org
Address
350 Twin Dolphin Drive Suite 115, Redwood City, CA, 94508, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support of fund development and a business model
This grant will help EdNovo develop a sustainability business plan for its work on the Gooru platform, which enables teachers to access and adapt OER in service of delivering personalized learning for their students.
for an open source platform that enables better discovery, insights, and use of OER
EdNovo’s Gooru platform provides teachers and students an easy-to-use system for searching, tagging, and organizing millions of free and open Web resources. Gooru would extend its open source platform by developing tools that encourage libraries of OER; provide information on their use; and make them easier to discover by linking them to relevant curriculum standards. These extensions promote increased student learning gains through OER by continuing to make it easier for teachers to find and use OER and capturing usage data to support feedback on and continuous improvement of recommended resources.
for platform development that assists in curation, auto-tagging, and contextualization of OER
EdNovo’s Gooru platform gives teachers and students an easy-to-use system for searching, tagging, and organizing more than 17 million free and open Web resources. In its next phase of development, Gooru would provide a dashboard for teachers to track individual students’ engagement, proficiency, and learning paths, along with customized resource recommendations. Gooru is a tool that makes it easier for teachers to find and use OER; it also addresses the need to capture usage data to support feedback loops and continuous improvement of recommended resources.
