Indeed @Mackiwg ! That’s basically has been our work that has sparked all these reflections, taking a resource and repurposing to a new context (national curriculum). In the context of Kolibri, the idea to align OER to our national curriculum comes from alignment efforts of Khan Academy in México and Perú, efforts that will trigger many more: A proposal for open educational resource adoption through a curriculum alignment hub - EdTech Hub This proved true in our work, as we started to first sneak, but later reuse these other alignments, remixing reused (aligned) OER. Let me say that the Kolibri Studio would be wonderful fit for design for remix, an open context to unleash 5R’s and emerging open practices.
South America has incredible potential for cross-country reuse and remixing mainly due to have the same official language (leaving out my friends from Brazil, its a really a continent!!). Can Khan Academy videos and exercises, or any quality OER be relevant to any South American country? Of course it can!! In fact, they are in use now, pandemic has made Khan popular and much more used. Even more relevant for our region, that has fallen behind in open practices: in our work we have spotted scarcity of OER available in Spanish working in math, even more in science. But in other subjects or domains, there’s little close to nothing. Many of them give you the opportunity to push “design for remix”, there’s much to be done in more locally driven subjects (Language learning, History, Civics, etc.), so there’s so much to be done.
One of the takeaways in our work is that with a framework to support open educational practices (curricular alignment, design for remix, for example) is critical. The design and co-construction of OER by teachers and learners, among many other possible open practices, needs to be supported by an open infrastructure that has efficient and distributed tools and platforms, to create, import, manage and steward quality OER, made with open technical standards, in collaboration, licensed with shared open licensing schema.
Why not dream about a shared infrastructure of Spanish K-12 Offline OER for low-tech or no-connectivity contexts? With Kolibri I think we have a good shot!! Why not dream about Wikieducator being the infrastructure for K-12 OER in the Pacific? Thanks again for leading the way in open for so many years.