Gooru

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.

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.

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.