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 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 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.
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 4 million free and open Web resources. The next phase of Gooru’s development will extend it to the Android phones popular among U.S. middle and high school students. EdNovo will gather data to improve Gooru while expanding the database to 25 million resources.
For platform development that facilitates curation, auto-tagging, and contextualization of OER
Although high-quality OER are available, there is still no easy way to search for them and create a portfolio for teaching and learning. EdNovo’s Gooru platform addresses this issue by giving teachers and students an easy-to-use system for tagging OER content on the Web, making it more discoverable and contextually relevant. Integrated with Google Apps for Education, Gooru has drag-and-drop and bookmarking features that allow users to find Common Core–aligned content and create shareable OER lesson plans and study guides. As use increases, Gooru will also aggregate important data on content usage.
