I’d like to share an exciting announcement: Generation YES and Oba Partner to Teach Students to Become Online Learning Ambassadors.
If you haven’t heard about Oba, you are about to! ObaWorld is a global cloud-based learning platform developed by the University of Oregon under the direction of Dr. Yong Zhao, the University of Oregon’s first Presidential Chair for Academic Extension and an internationally-known scholar, author, ISTE keynote, and speaker.
Dr. Zhao and his team have created an online learning platform that encourages global collaboration and shared learning like nothing before. “Oba” is so named because it is the heart of the word “global.” However, there are hurdles to introducing technology into schools, even the best and most exciting innovations face roadblocks of too little time and too few resources.
That’s where this partnership comes in. Generation YES has 15 years of experience creating curriculum and resources that support student empowerment and leadership in the digital learning revolution. We know that students are the key to any successful technology integration effort, and we know how to turn students from being objects of change into agents of change.
So Generation YES has developed a curriculum that teaches students to lead online learning efforts in their own schools. By becoming “Oba Ambassadors,” these students will mentor peers and assist teachers in blending online learning into all classes.
The Oba Ambassador curriculum will be freely available to Oba and Generation YES member schools. In addition, Oba member schools will get a free TechYES class license and Generation YES schools will get free access to ObaWorld for a year. We hope sharing these tools will result in more schools turning to collaborative, project-based, hands-0n experiences for students worldwide.
Sylvia
