DLD 2013 Cloud Summit - Education in the Cloud - Nava Levy - Founder of LerGO - Educate Yourself

Education in the Cloud?
Challenges & Opportunities of Leveraging Cloud
Technologies to Democratize Kids Education
Nava Levy, Founder of LerGO – Educate Yourself


Cloud
Technology

Challenges

Opportunities

Outline
• The context – the significance
of democratizing kids
education
• The Opportunities Cloud
Presents
• And… the Key Challenges
• A bit about LerGO

And yet, most kids need to complement
public education …

Now running Indiegogo campaign to free kids’ education – learn more.

…with costly private lessons

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Public Education

Private Lessons


Most Kids Are Taking
Costly Private Lessons
100%
80%
60%
40%

20%
0%
Israel

Korea

India

Source: Wikipedia, Meizav Israel

“Costs associated with shadow
education are staggering”
Source: Wikipedia, Private Tutoring

Social Gap
Increasing

“No Rich Kid Left Behind
….Whatever we’ve been doing in
our schools, it hasn’t reduced
educational inequality between
children from upper- and lowerincome families…
Prof Reardon, Stanford, April 2013

“….private tutoring
can…maintain and
exacerbate social
inequalities"
Source: Wikipedia
Now running Indiegogo campaign
to free kids’ education – learn more.

Who will
Come to the
Rescue?

Technology?

Business Sector?

Government?

Community?


First, let’s
talk about
“how”
"You can create a

situation where
education is
democratized. You can
set up a cloud that
gathers the best lectures
in the world, and you can
send them to every
home...If you want to
connect to this cloud
million children….”
President of Israel, Shimon
Peres, TheMarker


Cloud Technology is Key
for Transformation

Ubiquity and Rapidly Dropping Prices: Internet,
Social, Mobile, Big Data, End User Devices


Cloud
Technology

Challenges

Opportunities


Cloud Technology Infrastructure is key,
but what about the content?

+
Technology

Government?

+
Technology

Business Sector?

+
Technology

Community?


Business Sector?

Difficult to show direct
ROI, leading to market
failure

The Cognitive
Surplus

“cognitive surplus…represents the
ability of the world's population
to volunteer and to contribute
and collaborate on large,
sometimes global, projects.
The world has over a trillion hours
a year of free time to commit to
shared projects. Now, that free
time existed in the 20th century,
but we didn't get Ushahidi in the
20th century. That's the second
half of cognitive surplus."
Dr. Clay Shirky,
NYU, in TED

Now running Indiegogo campaign to
free kids’ education – learn more.

The Community!

NGO, OER,OSS
CrowdSourcing


The Emergence of Open
Educational Resources (OER)
Definition: “Open Educational Resources are
digital learning resources offered online … freely
and openly to teachers, educators, students, and
independent learners in order to be used,
shared, combined, adapted, and expanded in
teaching, learning and research.”
(Source: OECD)


Examples for OER Initiatives

All were initiated by non-profit ventures and all,
except edX, are Crowd Sourced based platforms

What about Open Source
Software?
OER Definition (cont.): “…They
include learning content, software
tools to develop, use and distribute,
and implementation resources such
as open licenses.”
(Source: OECD)

It’s not just the content that is Open & Free in OER
- it’s also the software!

There are also Independent OSS
Initiatives Helping Democratize Education
– Key Examples for eLearning

Screen Recording
Audio Recording

Virtual learning environment

Animation



Cloud
Technology

Challenges

The
Opportunity



Cloud
Technology

Challenges

Cognitive
Surplus


Interim Summary

• Opportunities
• Ubiquity & Cost of
Technology
• Creative commons,
Open Source Software
• Open Educational
Resources Movement

• Challenges
• Finding the right lesson
with the right quality
• Usability: Interactivity &
Animation
• Language & culture
barriers
• Privacy & Trust issues


Overcoming Challenges:
Orchestration for finding the
right lesson at the right quality

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Overcoming Challenges
- Usability: Adding Animation


Overcoming Challenges
- Usability: Adding
Interactivity & Feedback
Adding Online Quiz
Creating a Lesson Playlist
1

Link to animated intro

2

Link YouTube/SlideShare

3

Adding Feedback &
Reporting

4

Link to quiz
Link to animated ending


Overcoming Challenges –
Creating a multi lingual & cultural
platform from day one


Overcoming Challenges –
Non-profit models to overcome trust
issues and conflicting interests



Cloud
Technology

Overcoming
Challenges

Cognitive
Surplus


Summary
Cloud
Technology

Orchestration &
Usability

Cognitive Surplus


Summary


About LerGO
www.lergo.org

•LerGO is a new non-profit social venture dedicated
to self education
•Our goal is to provide every child with free access to
high quality, interactive and animated online lessons
•This will be made possible via LerGO's open source
cloud platform that will harness the goodwill of the
community, enabling it to easily create educational
content

•LerGO is led by Nava Levy with the help of talented
volunteers who are experts in technology, education
and design. Interested in joining us and making a
difference?

Click here to view our Indiegogo
campaign to learn more!

With your help, we can make it happen!
Please support our Indiegogo Campaign
LerGO – Free Kids’ Education

Thank You
Now running Indiegogo Campaign to Free Kids’
Education to learn more:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lergo-free-kids-education

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