Draft:The NROC Project
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The NROC Project | |
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| Nickname | NROC |
|---|---|
| Founder | Gary Lopez |
Region served | Global |
| Products | EdReady |
President | Ahrash Bissell |
| Website | https://www.nroc.org/ |
Formerly called | Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE) |
The NROC Project (NROC)is a nonprofit education-technology foundation whose mission is to improve student academic success.
History
[edit]NROC was founded in 2003 as the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE)[1] by Gary Lopez, formerly a lecturer at the University of California, San Diego and a division president at Harcourt.[2][3][4] The initial focus of the organization was the discovery, development, and distribution of open educational resources (OER) supported by grant funding from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.[5] Early work by the organization also included the development of the International Journal of Learning and Media in partnership with MIT Press and grant support from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.[6][7][8] In 2007, the organization created and launched HippoCampus, a website that curated OER for high school and college curricula.[9][10] The organization also developed OER content, including algebra 1 (2008),[11] developmental math (2011),[12][13] and developmental English (2014),[14] supported by grants from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.[15] In 2012, NROC moved its focus to college math and English readiness, an issue that has impacted about 60 percent of U.S. high school graduates.[16][17] It developed a personalized learning platform, EdReady, with grant support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and made it available as an OER for students and a teaching/learning platform to academic institutions.[18]
EdReady
[edit]In 2014 the initial use of EdReady was launched by Montana Digital Academy (University of Montana) and the platform was later adopted (as EdReady Montana) for statewide secondary, post-secondary, adult education, and correctional facilities use, supported by the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation.[19][20][21] Since then, EdReady has been adopted and implemented by schools and systems across the United States including statewide secondary and post-secondary use by Texas (Texas College Bridge)[22] and North Carolina (College and Career Ready Graduate),[23] by the community college systems of Indiana (Ivy Tech Level Up)[24][25] and Kentucky (KCTCS EdReady),[26] and hundreds of high schools and colleges across the U.S.[27]
References
[edit]- ^ "Monterey Institute for Technology and Education - for a feasibility study to develop a repository that makes high-quality course content available to secondary schools and students across the nation".
- ^ "Open Courses for Community Colleges".
- ^ https://www.stevehargadon.com/2011/08/live-tuesday-august-16th-with-gary.html
- ^ "10/31/2011 Taking our Efforts to a new level by Hispanic Outlook on Education Magazine - Issuu". 2 February 2015.
- ^ "Open Education".
- ^ "MacArthur Foundation Awards $2 Million to Monterey Institute for Technology and Education".
- ^ "Monterey Institute for Technology and Education - MacArthur Foundation".
- ^ "New International Journal of Learning and Media to be Published by Monterey Institute of Technology & MIT Press".
- ^ "Monterey Institute for Technology and Education - for continued development of the National Repository of Online Courses, a library of high-quality high school, Advanced Placement©, and undergraduate courses that are distributed free to students and teachers and through various licensing fees".
- ^ https://www.hippocampus.org/
- ^ "Monterey Institute for Technology and Education - for development and distribution of algebra content and teacher training resources".
- ^ "Monterey Institute for Technology and Education - for OER developmental math courses for community colleges".
- ^ "Oppsi014".
- ^ "Opp1038985".
- ^ "Gates Foundation Awards $12.9 Million to Boost Community College Graduation Rates".
- ^ "Declines in Math Readiness Underscore the Urgency of Math Awareness - UMBC: University of Maryland, Baltimore County". 31 March 2023.
- ^ "Foundation Giving $110 Million to Transform Remedial Education".
- ^ "Opp1038985".
- ^ "History – EdReady Montana".
- ^ "EdReady Montana Receives $3.5M Gift from the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation".
- ^ "Education".
- ^ https://texascollegebridge.org/
- ^ https://www.dpi.nc.gov/districts-schools/operation-polaris/office-innovation/career-and- college-ready-graduate-ccrg
- ^ "EdReady Indiana".
- ^ "NROC Project". The Republic. 18 July 2021. pp. C2.
- ^ "EdReady™ Application home, powered by NROC".
- ^ "Partnership Map".