Presented by Brandon Muramatsu at OER'16, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 20, 2016

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Connected Learning Initiative:
Open at Scale
Brandon Muramatsu, Vijay Kumar & Rita Sahu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
April 20, 2016
OER16, Edinburgh, Scotland

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Key Elements of CLIx
• Our starting point: Values
• Our starting assumptions: Open & Scale
• How are we doing it: Ecosystem, Capacity
Building & Platforms

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Sir Ratan Tata

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Quality Education at Scale

5. A drop in a pond/ocean
When two drops collide... by Sander van der Wel is licensed under CC By-NC-SA 2.0

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CLIx Learning Dimensions

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CLIx Learning Experiences
Learning Lab
Before school During School Hours:
accessed by grades 8, 9, 11
After School
1:1 or 1:2 devices / user ratio
Instructor/facilitator support

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CLIx Scale
1,65,000 students
1,100 schools
4,400 teachers

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Values

10. open
Not universally experienced
Complex & contextual
Requires digital capability & agency
Both descriptive & aspirational
Critical discourse is essential
“Move from access to equity & justice”
(McMillan Cottom, 2015)
Cronin, C. (2016, April 19). Open Culture, Open Education, Open Question.
Retrieved April 19, 2016, from http://www.slideshare.net/cicronin/open-culture-open-education-open-questions

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Values
• Ensure that students are prepared to solve
problems and apply curricular knowledge to their
everyday lives
• Includes business and personal ethics and
values in the curriculum
o Expressed as 21st Century Skills
o Still very much a work in progress

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Ecosystem, Capacity Building

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Field
Implementation
Teams
Tata Trusts TISS MIT
Development Partners Implementation Partners
• Eklavya, Bhopal
• Centre for Education Innovation and
Action Research, TISS, Mumbai
• Homi Bhabha Centre for Science
Education, TIFR, Mumbai
• MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
• National Institute of Advanced Studies,
Bengaluru
State Governments Institutions
• Chhattisgarh
• Mizoram
• Rajasthan
• Telangana
• UNICEF,
Chhattisgarh
• University of Mizoram
• CEIAR, Jaipur
• SCERT, Telangana
• Eklavya, Bhopal
Students Teachers Parents Community
CLIx Ecosystem

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Interconnected Projects
Teacher
Professional
Development
Imple-
menta-
tion
Curric
Develop-
ment

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Capacity Building
• Implementation (Physical)
o Working with 4 state governments to ensure that
we’re working within existing state schemes
(computer lab infrastructure) and that “Learning
Labs” are supported by the state governments
o Deploying CLIx field support personnel to each
state to support teachers and schools

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CLIx Design Camp, Summer 2015

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Capacity Building (cont.)
• Education Technology, Active Learning, Blended
Courses (People)
o Working with experienced Indian curriculum
designers and subject matter experts who mostly
design for paper (books or worksheets)
o Coaching and supporting curriculum designers in
edtech, active learning, blended courses
• Pedagogy (People)
o Teacher professional development for active
learning and blended lessons

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Wrap-Up

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Takeaways
• Quality Education at Scale
o Address big problems, in big ways
• Capacity is a journey / continuum
o With State Governments, curriculum developers,
teachers
• Open is a journey / continuum
o All materials are CC-By, technology Open Source
o Student agency and sharing curriculum
• Driven by Values

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Connected Learning Initiative:
Open at Scale
Brandon Muramatsu
mura@mit.edu