Re: [Foundation-l] WikiCurriculum -- clarifications and responses

A word about the perceived U.S. focus of the WikiCurriculum project: I do not have an intention of making the WikiCurriculum project U.S.-centric. In fact, I would prefer to integrate standards from countries around the world. In this way, a user will be able to view a block of content, and see which national/state standards (from around the world) are correlated. My personal expertise is with U.S. national, California, and Massachusetts standards. I would like others in the community to provide connections to international standards as well as other U.S. states. This could be especially useful for identifying gaps in standards, and narrowing the achievement gap between countries. In addition, developing countries could find templates of standards to follow, and design curricula accordingly. In this way, I do not think that the WikiCurriculum project, by its nature, suffers from the problem of being too U.S.-centric for the Wikimedia mission. I have recently heard from the International Professors Project, expressing interest in this project. As for potential redundancy with WikiUniversity, I believe that more discussion is warranted, and I hope to hear more! Thank you very much, Marty Weissman _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l