Development
Opportunities
Asora
Education Enterprises is seeking partners with appropriate
expertise and resources who will help us develop the
various aspects of Stellar Schools.
General
Opportunities
Asora
Education Enterprises, while focused mainly on its Stellar
Schools project, has been undertaking projects that
indirectly support K-12 reform efforts based on online
instruction. A number of these are described elsewhere on
this website. Perhaps of most prominence have been
our studies of public school
achievement tests as reported by various state
departments of education.
These studies not only provide a public service, they
also provide a marketing tool in the promotion of
Stellar Schools.
Stellar
Schools Project
Until
we acquire significant financial resources, we will be
limited in our ability to hire developers for the Stellar
Schools project. Developing this online self-paced
instructional system will require significant human and
financial capital. We seek partners who can help facilitate
the required developments. We are particularly interested
in players willing to be compensated through equity
participation or other sharing of future revenues.
We presume that the basic courseware for each course is
obtained from an online instructional software vendor. We
also assume that this courseware will be incomplete because
not all of the 15 instructional components (described
under Courseware
Brokerage Services)
will be present. Thus we envisage a number of different
kinds of collaborations including:
Production
of video and audio presentations
Very few
vendors include video and audio presentations so most
courses will need such augmentations. Ultimately, we will
seek movie industry quality, but in early versions, lower
cost productions will be used. Also to be included in this
phase is the drafting of the lecture notes for these
presentations, which contain the Learning Concept
Statements that define the course's curriculum and its
associated examination data base.
Creation,
maintenance, and operation of assessment
system
For each
course an examination database will be formed from the
Learning Concept Statements (LCS). Generally, each LCS will
lead to multiple questions- perhaps as many as ten each.
CyberTutor
authoring
This is
a feature to be added to the assessment system. It is an
automatic mechanism for compiling a remediation document
that includes both textual and video presentations of the
issues and concepts surrounding each question answered
incorrectly.
CyberWorkbook authoring
This is
a hardcopy workbook containing assignments and problem sets
that are completed by students and subsequently scanned for
grading by the Hub center staff.
CyberDrill
authoring
This
is essentially an online workbook. Each exercise will
relate to one or more Learning Concept Statements.
CyberGames
authoring
A
computer game will be created for each course. They will be
designed such that students who have mastered the course
will tend to win more often.
Tutoring
staff training
Schoolroom
tutors and help desk tutors will be trained to manage
students and will be trained in the course content as well
as the mechanics of the courseware.
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If you are interested in learning more about development
opportunities please explore our website, read our
reports on
development, and
then please contact us
when
you are ready to learn more.