Gooru
For An Open Source Platform That Enables Better Discovery, Insights, And Use Of OER
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Amount$200,000
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Program
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Date Awarded9/9/2019
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
Gooru, an education technology nonprofit, has developed a free, open Learning Navigator — a "GPS for learning" — that uses extensively curated OER to help students navigate their own pathways toward learning goals. Gooru aims to develop a teacher professional development model as a navigated learning experience, consisting of tools and opportunities for teachers to practice productive use of data to provide student feedback, support, and progress monitoring. This project will inform how to enable teachers to utilize OER and real-time data in classrooms to support student 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.
