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
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