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Openness is at the heart of a massive educational intervention underway in India led by MIT, the Tata Institute for Social Sciences and the Tata Trusts. The Connected Learning Initiative (CLIx) aims to impact a total of 150,000 high school students in four states in India by the end of 2017 in the areas of English, science and mathematics. Without openness—in practice and in resources—our approach could not hope to be successful at the scale of this undertaking. The founding partners are working in collaboration with a number of curriculum and implementation partners across India to design, develop and implement curricular modules based on Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Education Practice (OEP). Our approach is reinforced with strong professional development and community building activities to support teachers at hundreds of schools in each of the partner states (with a goal of 1,000 schools and 2,700 teachers in this initial phase of the project). CLIx catalyzes access to quality learning opportunities at scale that are capable of changing what Indian students and teachers know and can do. We believe that a massive quality intervention, providing curricular alternatives to students and teachers through the power of OER and OEP, can irreversibly ‘change the game’, improving the Indian education system and what Indian youth learn. Our goal is to bring active, and blended learning in English, mathematics and science to Indian high schools to ensure that well prepared populations of Indians continue into further schooling and into the working population.
We’ll present an overview of the project; discuss the mathematics, sciences and English modules we have under development; and describe how openness is helping us overcome our implementation challenges. And we’ll discuss how we can and are leveraging the CLIx model to reach underserved populations around the world.
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