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An overview of NGLC grantee, Gooru. Developed by Gooru, Septempber 2014. Source: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11lTQ-5ObFhU2s9qaUi9lJhSNwdEk43OYS5jtErGIzh0/edit?pli=1#slide=id.g1d7a7dfb1_0611
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ONE SIZE FITS NONE.
The Web has transformed our movie-watching, shopping, and friend-making experiences
...but why haven’t we been successful at transforming learning?
Every 9 seconds a student in America drops out of school
Key Challenges
KEEPING UP WITH RAPID INNOVATIONIS CHALLENGING.
GLOBAL EDUCATION IS HIGHLY LOCAL.
100K Education Apps, 15M Tablets sold in 2013, 1B+ Android smartphones
2700 languages around the globe
Who are we?
Honor the Human Right to Education
Mission
We are dedicated to engaging a community of teachers, developers, and researchers to unleash personalized learning with technology and help students reach their full potential.
Founded in 2011 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit
Prasad Ram, Ph.D. Shona Brown, Ph.D. Ram Shriram
Mission-driven nerds with a passion for learning
We are engineers, teachers, and community builders
OUR TEAM
Founder, CEO, Chairman Board of Directors Board of Directors
Mission
500,000 teachers in 140 countries use Gooru to help students reach their full potential.
Here’s what Gooru teachers and students have to say...
Our Solution
Gooru is a free personalized learning solution that helps teachers find, remix, and share collections .
Learn more about what you can do with Gooru...
Access Free and Open Educational Resources and Collections for Every K-12 Topic
ThousandContent Partners1016 Million
Resources 1.2 Million Questions
ThousandCollections60
Join an Active Community of Curators Improve education for your district and impact a global audience
Tag standards, lexile level, accessibility
Rate and review resource quality
Leave comments and teaching tips for collections
RUSD teachers who created the RUSD Community Library for their district
Make the Web Work for Your ClassroomPersonalize learning with teacher-curated collections of K-12 learning resources
Monitor and Adapt
Activity Stream
Data Analytics
Find and Remix Empower Students
Browse thousands of K-12 collections made by teachers or search 18M resources
Remix collections and customize content to meet your students’ needs
Share collections with students to study at their own pace, 1:1, in groups or at home.
Measure student engagement and progress to intervene in real-time
Find standards-aligned learning materialsSave time searching for high-quality education resources online.
Browse the Community Library or Search for multimedia learning resources and teacher-created collections for all K-12 Math, Science, ELA and Social Science topics
BY THE NUMBERS
16 million resources in our catalog180,000 tagged to Common Core1.5 million quiz questions28 Courses for K-1250,000 teacher-created collections500,000 educators in our community
Learn about the Gooru Learning Architecture
Find Remix Share Monitor
● Copy and customize from other teachers● Create collections from scratch by using
Search or uploading your own files● Add questions, blending digital resources and
quiz items into one experience
● Pair a short video with a digital textbook or a series of questions to create a Collection for station rotations
● Feeling bold? Have your students create collections as projects
Remix collections for classroom Build collections to guide students through interactive games, videos,
and quiz questions for every lesson.
Find Remix Share Monitor
Students can study at their own pace
Add directions and tips for students at every resource, keeping them focused and engaged in the lesson.
Assign collections for studying in class or at home Use collections in various parts of your teaching as pre-teach, re-teach
or extension activities
Accountability and Understanding
Assign collections and quizzes to your students by sharing a simple code. Sign-in isn’t required.
Find Remix Share Monitor
Monitor engagement and check for understandingSeamlessly integrate Gooru into your classroom routine
Check student understanding with questions
Multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank items give students immediate feedback, and open-response questions test for deeper understanding
View a summary of responses on class dashboards
● Track student progress and monitor engagement or comprehension for a collection
● Students can leave reactions to resources they found helpful or confusing
Find Remix Share Monitor
Our Partners
“Gooru provides a way for me to challenge my advanced learners to explore a topic further, while also giving me engaging ways to re-teach content to those who need it.”
-Vanessa Bowley, 10th Grade World Lit Teacher, King High School, RUSD
Defining a Classroom Worthy SolutionEngineers for educators: We work side by side with innovative schools to establish and validate education technology that improves learning.
Starting with just 6 teachers, the Class Lab program spread to hundreds of teachers and over 10,000 students using Gooru during the 2013-2014 school year.
Implementing Personalized Learning with High-needs Districts in California
Gooru and Santa Ana USD teamed up to build and showcase an open digital Library of a comprehensive K-12 Common Core-aligned curriculum with corresponding ELL and Special Ed units. Three quarters of Santa Ana’s students qualify for Free or Reduced Lunch and 51% of students are English Language Learners.
Stockton USD is located in the 2nd most dangerous city in CA. 85% of students qualify for free and reduced lunch.
Val Verde USD, located in Moreno Valley, operates 23 schools. 40% of students are English Language Learners.
Murietta Valley USD is located in one of the fastest-growing cities in the state, and has 11 CA Distinguished Schools.
Lammersville USD in rural Mountain House, CA is a 3-year-old district in an area of economic revival.
Leadership Public Schools is a nonprofit network of charter schools serving the Bay Area.
Instant, Actionable Data for Admins, Teachers and Students
Monitor and adapt based on data● Track student progress and monitor
engagement or comprehension● Students view their own data and make
decisions to challenge themselves or seek help
Understand district-wide trends, effective resources and gaps in content
Our Promise
Foster an ecosystem
Open Learning Architecture
Free Apps Open APIs & Open- Source
FREE & OPEN-SOURCE, ALWAYS
SecureData
Extending Gooru to Meet the Needs of Every Learner
Support ELL requirements
Expand district partnerships
Improve Accessibility
Continue learning with after school programs and informal settings
Explore social and emotional learning
Education is a human right.Here are some ways to get involved.
Learn more about Gooru
Use Gooru in your classroom
Partner with us
Build with Gooru technology
Visit about.goorulearning.org
Get started with Gooru
Join other allies in our mission
Check out our Developers site
Looking for other ways to get involved? Email us at [email protected]
A big thanks to our wonderful supporters and people like you!