collaborative content submission

Ryan Michael kerinin at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 15:10:51 UTC 2005


my wife is a teacher, and a common complaint by her and her colleagues is
that teaching materials are virtually impossible to find online. there are
sites which offer lesson plans and example work, however these are either
lacking in content or paid-subscription.

edubuntu provides an opportunity for addressing this issue - by providing a
set of opensource tools for lesson planning, scheduling, grading, and
classroom use edubuntu is has an opportunity to establish (or contribute to)
a shared database of teaching resources.

if teachers could elect to participate in such a database, edubuntu could
transparently (or on a per-document basis) submit all lesson plans, class
schedules, tests, activities, etc to a publicly available and searchable
database. i'm not particularly familiar with the software included in
edubuntu, but if there were a way of tagging documents with the relevant
subject matter, age/grade level, topic, class name, etc - it would not take
very long before a massive database of teaching materials was created.

i'm thinking of something along the lines of wikipedia for teaching
materials. it would allow teachers to spend less time re-inventing the wheel
and more time building upon the work of others or investigating alternate
approaches to teaching. many subjects are essentially standardized - it's an
incredible waste of human resources for each teacher everywhere in the world
to design a curriculum to teach the same thing - especially when the
curricula produced are often almost identical.

i don't know if this is something edubuntu would be interested in supporting
- i had the idea talking to my wife a few days ago and thought i'd pass it
along in case you guys were interested.
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