What is Guru-app?[]
Guru-app is an education project with a mission to supplement the education curriculum of major developing countries, starting with Malaysia as a test.
We aim to distribute a mix of free crowd-sourced and teacher-owned content to 100 million kids.
Our strategy would be reliant on 3 pillars- crowd-sourcing, mobile distribution and socialisation/gamification.
Alignment with national syllabus[]
Our philosophy is to minimise inconsistencies with national education blueprints and framework.
Guru-app's aim is to supplement instead of circumventing national education blueprints.
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Our approach[]
Why crowdsource?[]
Leveraging the community of current and retired teachers, qualified professionals and students, crowdsourcing is the most efficient way to generate royalty-free content quickly.
By using open-sourced content from active communities with localised expertise, combined with sources such as Youtube , Khan Academy , Coursera , students would have access to latest reference materials to supplement learning experiences.
Quality control will be through public reviews to ensure accuracy, consistency, relevance and effectiveness.
Why mass distribution?[]
Internet penetration will increase, especially with mobile penetration of most developing countries exceeding 100%.
By ensuring content is royalty-free, Guru-wiki allows educators and entrepreneurs to focus on building mass distribution platforms which are effective and efficient at affordable costs.
Why gamification ?[]
Gamification is the use of game thinking and game mechanics in a non-game context in order to engage users and solve problems. Gamification is used in applications and processes to improve user engagement, Return on Investment, data quality, timeliness, and learning.
By introducing elements of gamification, students and content contributors are encouraged to increase engagment and drive the growth of usable content.
How can you help?[]
If you believe passionately in bringing accessible education to millions of school children, click here to see how you can contribute.
All content from this wiki will be under the standard Creative Commons terms and be universally free.
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How do we start?[]
We need help to populate individual pages for:
- Clarity of mission
- Framework and methodology
- Index of curriculum structure
- Subjects list and chapters
- Content by chapter
Lets also start with secondary schooling syllabus and focus on:
- English
- Math
- General sciences
- Physics
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Economics
- History
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