<div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/6 Christoph Derndorfer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com">christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote">Thanks a lot for the information.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">And I'm not a teacher myself so all my comments above are based on second-hand experience.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">However my understanding is that the learning goals for each grade are very well defined and due to the small variety of different school books in-use in schools (this seems to be a global problem;-) there's hardly any difference between schools in terms of what material is taught at a given time.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Okay, I just spent some time talking to OLE Nepal's Education Director and my comments above are a pretty accurate account of the situation here. One interesting thing that I learned is that OLE Nepal's E-Paath structure doesn't always align 100% with the sequence of materials in the schools books.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote">Regardless of these details there's no doubt in my mind that a time-component, whether it's a weekly or a monthly basis, is an important axis of navigation in interactive learning materials. Plus, this is a core use-case for Nepal anyway so even if I wanted I couldn't really avoid it:-)</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I also thought some more about this last night and I think what we'd want to have in the long-run is some sort of "authoring" component that makes it easy for MoEs, implementation organizations, teachers and even parents to create Chakras from a selection of the available materials. Imagine a Web service that allows a user to browse a central library of
available lessons (which might have been pre-selected or even authorized by the national MoE), select the ones that are interesting, choose how they
should be packaged (lesson bundle, XO bundle, etc.) and then download
the resulting package. Think Suse Studio for
Karma lessons! </div>
<br><div>But I'm definitely getting ahead of myself here so I'll rather just shut up and try to get that initial KISS Chakra script working... ;-)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote">BTW, I'd be interested in hearing how the process of getting from national curricula to lesson plans work in other countries around the globe. Anyone have more information on this?</div></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks David for your thoughts on this subject, much appreciated!</div><div><br></div><div>As I'm very interested in this topic I'll also inquire with some teachers back in Austria of how exactly things work there. And I still hope to hear more reports from other countries!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Christoph</div></div>-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<br>co-editor, olpcnews<br>url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com">www.olpcnews.com</a><br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com">christoph@olpcnews.com</a><br>