Open Sourcing Education
in South Africa
Mark Surman
Open Philanthropy Fellow
22.07.07
Open sourcing education?
Today's talk
Shuttleworth Foundation vision.
Open (source) education projects in South Africa (and globally.
Connecting into the free and open source community.
South Africa
Tremendous opportunity ...
... but struggling to innovate and compete.
Foundation vision
Foundation vision
Foundation vision
Foundation vision
Some education gaps
Poor access to computers and Internet.
One text book in classroom.
Weak maths, science and analysis skills.
Ecosystem approach.
TuxLabs
Access to computers, Internet and educational content.
Linux-based computer labs in 200+ South African schools.
Sustained by Inkululeko, volunters and local entreprenuers.
Free Text Books
Royalty free text books, written and maintained by volunteers.
Grade 10 12 science and math complete, now scaling to more.
Department of Education partnership in works.
Kusasa
Students gain analysis and logic skills by learning programming.
P2P, 'explore, discover and learn' approach built around Squeek and Python.
Early stage development now, pilots in 2008.
Open education movement
Networking with open education activists.
South Africans leverage and learn globally.
Potential for policy change by collaborating with UNESCO, iCommons, etc.
Challenges
Finding and grooming new leaders.
Replicating, scaling and sustaining pilots.
Getting policy makers on board, and implementing policy decisions.
Learning from open source
Managing textbook communities
-> massive peer production.
Working across many languages, balancing local and global.
Building global networks,
and movements.
Why does it matter?
If we are to lift Africa from her current circumstances, we will need a generation of learners that are gifted with curiosity about the world, and the tools to understand and shape that world.
Mark Shuttleworth
Open Sourcing Education
in South Africa
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Vision: a generation of
South Africans with the
skills, tools and motivation to be innovators and
leaders.Education+IntellectualpropertyWireless + telecom
programs
Vision: a generation of
South Africans with the
skills, tools and motivation to be innovators and
leaders.Education+IntellectualpropertyWireless + telecom
programscollaborativeopenleveraged
valuesVision: a generation of
South Africans with the
skills, tools and motivation to be innovators and leaders.
Vision: a generation of
South Africans with the
skills, tools and motivation to be innovators and
leaders.Education+IntellectualpropertyWireless + telecom
programscollaborativeopenleveraged
values