The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (www.iskme.org) looks forward to continuing its research on open content initiatives globally, including South Africa’s own Free High School Science Texts, and specifically, to the upcoming opportunity to partner with the Siyavula project. The goal of our research for Siyavula is to increase understanding of the factors that contribute to the creation, use and localization of open educational content across various teaching and learning needs and contexts. ISKME is in the early stages of data collection for this work, which will kick off at the SciFest in Grahamstown. ISKME will attend the SciFest March 25-28 to conduct a baseline survey and talk directly with teachers about their curriculum and curriculum development needs. Also while in South Africa, ISKME will meet with Siyavula project stakeholders, including rural and urban teachers at their local school sites and education experts, and will observe the Siyavula workshops that will support teachers in accessing and modifying Siyavula content on Connexions. For more information about ISKME’s research on the Siyavula project, please contact Lisa Petrides, lisa@iskme.org, or Cynthia Jimes, cynthia@iskme.org.
Hi, I learned of you through Alex Weir. I’m writing a set of lessons called Classic Math Problems and they will be in the Public Domain, see: http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?ClassicMathProblems and also Edward Cherlin’s initiative http://www.earthtreasury.net which is part of my Minciu Sodas laboratory http://www.ms.lt for serving and organizing independent thinkers. Please join his working group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/earthtreasury/