Curriki.org - Educating The World

Curriki is the brainchild of a conglomerate of educational organizations whose goal is to mold technology into a vessel through which learning resources are made freely accessible to everyone in the world. In case you didn’t already make the connection, “Curriki” is a combination of the words “curriculum” and “Wikipedia” (the site is based on Wiki’s technology). Powered by a slough of partners and sponsors, Curriki is essentially an enormous open-source educational forum where, like Wikipedia, users can post, edit, and comment on articles. Users can register and join the Curriki community for free Plans are already underway to further emulate Wikipedia and translate the articles into many different languages. Additionally, the Curriki team plans on adding bulletin boards, a blog, and podcasts in the near future.

“Curriki is more than your average Website; we're a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world.
Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. Our name is a play on the combination of 'curriculum' and 'wiki' which is the technology we're using to make education universally accessible”.

Why hasn’t something like this been done earlier? Curriki is not only a brilliant idea, it’s also brilliantly executed; the site’s layout is simple yet refined, and is easy to navigate. The site should definitely increase rapidly in popularity as soon as some major educational institutions catch on. Then, it’s only a matter of time before the rest of the educational community jumps on the bandwagon.

The site’s search function is somewhat lacking; it’s not yet possible to do anything other than a basic keyword search yet. Since the site boasts a wealth of educational materials, why can’t users run a category search? User profiles would also benefit from an upgrade; considering this is an educational website, why doesn’t primary information for each user include their educational information and their relationship to the educational community?