Gooru

For Platform Development That Assists In Curation, Auto-tagging, And Contextualization Of OER

  • Amount
    $400,000
  • Program
  • Date Awarded
    3/20/2013
  • Term
    12.0 Months
  • Type of Support
    Project
Overview
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.
About the Grantee
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.

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