Hello All,
I am fairly new to the group.
I am part of a team that runs an "Open Education" initiative, Tamarind
Tree <https://tamarindtree.org> at Dahanu (about two hours north of
Mumbai).
Our space is grounded on the open source philosophy, believing that
every learner must have access to high quality learning through Open
Educational Resources (OERs), enabling them to become life long learners.
Towards this, we have a combination of Open hardware (SBCs), open
gamified tools installed on our customised OS (Treebian!) and content
and courses hosted on an open LMS (My Big Campus
<https://mybigcampus.in> on moodle). Content is generated based on the
NCERT courses and being released under a CC-BY license. Its a DIY space
with all this being developed, run and managed in-house by a handful of
people.
The school is recognised by the Maharashtra Government, catering to the
local adivasi children from Pre Primary to Grade 8. We we will be going
up to Class 10. Its run in English.
We would he happy to host members of this group for a visit here or even
offer our space for meetings and share some of our challenges with
setting up an open digital model in a rural area. We serve food to the
kids, so hosting a group of 10-20 people is not an issue on a weekday.
The train takes 2 hours from Bandra and comes straight to Dahanu Road.
We are also looking for collaborations on the following fronts:
1. A Moodle and network administrator (can work remotely) (paid position)
2. People to come and volunteer and lead open source projects (building
weather station, Open Street Map, teaching imaging, etc) with our students
3. People interested in building educational content, learning videos,
games in open source.
4. Our students have been working on Scratch, but we need people for
mentoring and inspiration!
Please do let me know how to take this forward.
Regards
Michelle
Tamarind Tree
+9284254470/+8806661235
twitter: @tamarindtree2
Fb: Tamarind Tree <https://www.facebook.com/ttschooldahanu/notifications/>
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