ViKiwi designs CDE collaboration portal

Hey all,

ViKiwi is getting involved in design of the State of California website used for delivering standards to educators. Basically, we're helping design a system to allow educators to find and contribute content that is aligned to California educational standards. This was just made public as part of Jack O'Connell's state of the union speech today.

Click here to read the official CDE description of the Brokers of Expertise project; here is an excerpt:

BOE will be a knowledge management system to gather all available educational research that meets high standards, expertly cull the data for meaningful trends, and develop workable strategies specific to implementing that research into California’s extraordinarily diverse schools. BOE will provide the opportunity for thousands of outstanding educators from San Diego to Siskiyou to share their expertise and learn of the latest innovations from their colleagues throughout the state as well as our world-class research community. No longer will we be limited by geography as we build a bridge to our islands of excellence. BOE will provide the opportunity to combine, in a potentially revolutionary way, the expertise and innovations of California’s technology community with our educational community as we prepare California’s next generation of citizens.

The system shown will not be available in the near term but the general direction is a good one, towards collaborative online communities focused on educational needs.

--Eric