How to organize educational resources ?

How to organize educational resources ?

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Joshua Marks, Curriki CTO                                                                    

For public institutions and companies with training missions, it is essential that educational content is easily accessible, relevant, reliable and updated.

However, educational resources are often scattered in countless files, emails and paper documents. Therefor it's difficult to access and enrich them.

Curriki is XWiki's solution for Education. It combines the wiki simplicity of implementation and adoption with innovative features enabling a better information organization. Curriki allows to organize and easily enrich educational content in many formats.

This solution has been originally developed by XWiki for the curriki.org website, an american educational content sharing platform now famous, with over 250,000 users, both teachers and students, and 40,000 resources.

The Curriki code is published as open source under the LGPL licence.

Curriki for Education

 Add and organize educational resources

• Publish multimedia content described by educational metadata (school level, age, theme,...) supporting the following formats: wiki, HTML, ZIP, Video, Audio, Sankoré (digital whiteboard)
• Gather resources in "collections" to create complete educational pathways
• Create folders and subfolders to better structure knowledge courses

 Find educational resources

• Combine search criteria to find the most relevant resources
• Sort the research results to highlight the resources rated by others
• Move your mouse over the search results to see detailed descriptions of resources 

 Visualize resources

• See the resources directly from your browser
• Preview the audio, video and Digital Whiteboard directly from the site
• Download resources to your computer
• Print resources, such as pictures, to use them offline
• Add resources to your favorites so you can quickly find them

 Enrich the resources through social networks and working groups

• Note and comment on resources
• Share with users the resources that are particularly interesting
• Report inappropriate content
• Share your collections so that others can enrich their own educational resources
• The wiki type resources can be edited collaboratively directly in Curriki
• Create and join groups to work collaboratively on course knowledge

Customized solution : Planète Sankoré

Resources organization	Powerful search engine	Social features
Resources are described by metadata that allows easily organizing them	The multicriteria search engine allows you to find educational resources very quickly for a given subject	The user profile and groups can work together to create a knowledge path

Find out what other clients are using the Education solution:

• Curriki
• Sankoré

How to implement this solution?

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