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Challenges and Opportunities
At 59 million, teachers
are the largest
professionally-trained
group in the world
High-tech; high-touch; high-teach
Teacher members: 183 countries
30,000+ offline and online members
The cost for teachers remains at $0
1.3 million radio listeners per week The Voice of Teachers
Facts/Highlights: 10th Year Anniversary
Certificate of Teaching Mastery
Demand-driven; globally conceived; locally led
What Members Have Created
Emergency Education
TWB Toolset
Community Evaluation
Millennium Development Ambassadors
Online; Seminars; Books; “Voice of Teachers” radio
Certificate of Teaching Mastery
Five free, demand-driven courses
Self-paced and mentor supported
Multilingual subtitling, translation
Groups that surround content
Portfolios that advance careers
Open Educational Resources; single sign-on; multilingual; modular
TWB Toolset and Open Educational Resources
Content-Collaboration-Community
Global Social Network
Customizable Groups
Courseware
Visual News
Community Evaluation
A Hard Question
Problem: “I can rate and provide feedback on a
restaurant, but how come I can’t rate or show impacts on
projects in my community?”
SMS-enabled Tools; Support; Accountability; Transparency
Emergency Education
New Earthquakes:Urgent Need for Information
• China: Last Wednesday
• Afghanistan: Sunday
What Does This Have to do with OER?
People: online and offline
Radio and CD
Booklets: 104,000 for teachers;1.8 million for students
Translation, localization, excellent science, teaching for safety