Curriki Launches Curriki Japan at Tokyo's Waseda University

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-04-20

Summary:

"Curriki, the leading K-12 global community for creating, sharing, and finding open educational resources (OER), today announced the launch of Curriki Japan, the first of Curriki's Asian affiliates. An audience of over 300 educators, parents, students, and interested citizens attended the prestigious event at Waseda University, where leaders from Waseda University and Curriki launched Curriki Japan. Waseda University developed the affiliate program in Japan to fill the gap between students who have access to high-quality education and those who have lesser opportunity by making digital Open Educational Resources (OER) available on the web. Japanese students and parents are invited to visit Curriki Japan to use the available materials to strengthen their studies. The all-volunteer team is working to translate resources from the Curriki library, which currently holds more than 55,000 teaching and learning resources. To date, over 330 resources have been translated into Japanese ..."

Link:

http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/curriki-launches-curriki-japan-at-tokyos-waseda-university-1900078.htm

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Tags:

oa.new oa.curriki oa.oer oa.education oa.japan oa.japanese oa.crowd oa.announcements

Date tagged:

04/20/2014, 07:05

Date published:

04/20/2014, 03:05