Serlo

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Serlo Education eV
logo
legal form nonprofit organization
founding October 2009
Seat Munich
motto The Open Learning Movement
main emphasis Free education
method Digital technology
owner Club members and online community
Employees <10 full-time employees
Volunteers 50+
Members 150+
Website de.serlo.org
Group photo during the Serlo conference in 2015

Serlo Education is a non-profit educational organization with the aim of making quality education freely available worldwide and achieving broad participation in the design of education. The organization is developing serlo.org, a free learning platform for schoolchildren. Other projects address students and refugees. Similar to Wikipedia , all Serlo offers are free of charge, free of advertising and can be designed by everyone. The content is under a free license and is Open Educational Resources .

history

The name refers to a small Buddhist monastery school in the Nepalese Himalaya mountains. In April 2009 she was visited by the project founder Simon Köhl as a 13th grade student. In the monastery there was a lack of good teaching materials, so the first ideas for a multilingual, free learning platform for students emerged. In October 2009, Simon Köhl met Serlo co-founder Aeneas Rekkas, who was in grade 12 at the time and was already working as a software developer. For Simon Köhl and Aeneas Rekkas, on the one hand the desire to contribute to more justice with education that is freely accessible worldwide and on the other hand their own negative school experiences were the main motivations for the establishment of Serlo Education.

Serlo.org went online as a prototype on October 22, 2010 and was then geared towards mathematics as a school subject. On April 5th, 2014 the second version of serlo.org was published, which offers content on various school subjects and initiated the development of the editorial online community.

Concept and content

Serlo.org offers simple explanations, interactive applets, courses, tutorial videos, exercises, and sample solutions that enable students to learn at their own pace and needs. The platform offers extensive content on school mathematics. In addition, the other subjects biology, sustainability, physics, chemistry and computer science are being developed. The contents of the different subjects are summarized in subject overviews and can be found by searching or using the state curricula. The close networking of the learning content is intended to ensure that students can find their own way through the content. Based on the example of Wikipedia, the learning materials are created, further developed and checked for quality by an online community. The learning platform is and remains completely free and ad-free for all users.

In November 2019, all serlo.org projects had over a million unique visitors a month.

More Serlo projects

Serlo college mathematics

Cover picture of "Math for Non-Freaks"
The development of "Maths for Non-Freaks" in the period 2009 to 2016

Serlo Hochschulmathematik builds on the textbook series "Math for Non-Freaks". The aim of Serlo Hochschulmathematik is the collaborative creation of didactically high-quality teaching content for the university sector. In addition, the quality of teaching at universities is to be improved.

“Maths for Non-Freaks” is a freely accessible series of university mathematics textbooks that focus on a very understandable and didactically high-quality teaching of mathematical concepts and terms. It is a Wikibooks project and was founded on September 29, 2009. In December 2015 "Math for Non-Freaks" was part of Serlo Education eV and renamed Serlo Hochschulmathe. The project has over 2.2 million page views per year (as of January 2018) and has received several awards.

Serlo ABC

Serlo ABC is a free literacy app for smartphones that enables independent, intuitive and personalized acquisition of the Latin alphabet and at the same time imparts linguistic skills. The aim of Serlo ABC is to help refugees who are not literate in the Latin alphabet to integrate.

Serlo sustainability

Serlo Sustainability is building up the “Sustainability” department on the serlo.org learning platform and is promoting the use of free licenses in ecological education. Serlo Sustainability is based on the principles of permaculture . The aim of Serlo Sustainability is to spread ecological awareness as well as knowledge and skills relating to a sustainable lifestyle with the help of digital technology.

Serlo Lab School

The Serlo Lab School is a learning support for mathematics with the help of digital media. The offer is currently taking place in Munich and is aimed at students from the 5th grade. The aim of the Serlo Lab School is to support the development of serlo.org through feedback on content and software, through training the learning guides to become authors for the learning platform, and through testing pedagogical methods for independent learning and learning through teaching with the help of serlo.org.

effect

Serlo would like to use the possibilities of digitization to create an essential prerequisite for more educational justice. The community approach is intended to enable broad participation in the design of education. Serlo's content is under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.

Serlo's work is guided by the following goal:

“Our vision is free education that is shaped by an open and independent community. Broad participation results in understandable and well-founded learning materials that are equally accessible to everyone free of charge. Free education is therefore part of a diverse and networked society with a strong sense of community and self-determined people who enjoy learning. "

- Serlo team, 2014

Awards

In 2019 serlo.org was awarded the SWM Bildungsstiftung sponsorship award and the founders of the organization were awarded the Federal Republic of Germany's Medal of Merit.

In 2018, Serlo founder Simon Köhl was awarded an Ashoka Fellowship.

In 2017 serlo.org was awarded the special pedagogical media prize.

In 2016 Serlo received the jury's OER award in the “Huge Impact: Large OER Projects” category. In addition, “Math for Non-Freaks” was awarded the OER Award 2016 in the “University” category as a Serlo project. “Math for non-freaks” was also a finalist in the fOERder Award 2016 and won the 2015 university prize “The University, the Future and You!”.

In 2015, Simon Köhl, the founder of Serlo, was accepted into the “Those in charge” network of the Robert Bosch Foundation .

In 2014, Serlo co-founder Aeneas Rekkas received the LMU Research Prize for excellent students from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

In 2013 Serlo received the ERGO Foundation's “Youth & Future” education award at the Vision Summit.

literature

  • Wikimedia Germany e. V. Ges. For the promotion of free knowledge (Ed.): Analysis of the current situation on free educational materials (OER): The situation of free educational materials (OER) in Germany in the educational areas of schools, universities, vocational training and further education in June 2015 . BoD, Norderstedt 2015, ISBN 978-3-7392-7749-3 ( open-educational-resources.de [PDF]).

Web links

General links

Projects from Serlo

Media coverage

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c How Serlo works. In: Serlo. Serlo Education eV, archived from the original on June 2, 2016 ; accessed on June 30, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c About Serlo. In: Serlo. Serlo Education eV, archived from the original on June 2, 2016 ; accessed on June 30, 2016 : “[Serlo] is completely free and ad-free ... Serlo is an online community - a Wikipedia for learning. The members of the community create, link, sort and translate all content on Serlo. "
  3. ↑ a b Terms of Use and Copyright. In: Serlo. Serlo Education eV, archived from the original on June 2, 2016 ; accessed on June 30, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Via Wikibooks. In: Wikibooks. Wikimedia Foundation Inc., archived from the original on April 13, 2016 ; accessed on June 30, 2016 (The Serlo project "Maths for Non-Freaks" is written on Wikibooks and the terms of use of Wikibooks apply to this project).
  5. ↑ The story of Serlo. In: Serlo. Serlo Education eV, archived from the original on June 2, 2016 ; accessed on July 1, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Serlo beta is online. In: Serlo. Serlo Education eV, archived from the original on September 3, 2014 ; accessed on July 1, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Serlo release party. In: Serlo. Serlo Education eV, archived from the original on September 3, 2014 ; accessed on July 1, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Annual reports and finances. In: Serlo. Serlo Education eV, archived from the original on June 24, 2016 ; accessed on July 1, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Community. In: Serlo. Serlo Education eV, archived from the original on June 2, 2016 ; accessed on July 1, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Number of users serlo.org. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
  11. ↑ a b Serlo Academia. In: Serlo. Serlo Education eV, accessed June 30, 2016 .
  12. ↑ About the project - math for non-freaks. In: Math for non-freaks . Archived from the original on May 31, 2016 ; accessed on June 30, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Version history of the main page of "Maths for Non-Freaks". In: Math for non-freaks . Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Serlo merges with math for non-freaks. In: Serlo. Serlo Education eV, archived from the original on June 2, 2016 ; accessed on July 1, 2016 .
  15. ↑ See receipts in the section "Awards"
  16. ^ Serlo ABC. In: Serlo. Serlo Education eV, archived from the original on June 2, 2016 ; accessed on July 1, 2016 .
  17. ↑ Applied sustainability. In: Serlo. Serlo Education eV, archived from the original on July 1, 2016 ; accessed on July 1, 2016 .
  18. ^ Serlo Lab School. In: Serlo. Serlo Education eV, archived from the original on June 2, 2016 ; accessed on July 1, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Vision and values. In: Serlo. Serlo Education eV, archived from the original on December 3, 2014 ; accessed on July 1, 2016 .
  20. ↑ www.bundespraesident.de: The Federal President / Events / Order award "Engagement educates". Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Simon Köhl. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Complete list of award-winning products - educational media award. Accessed December 5, 2019 (German).
  23. ↑ OER Award 2016 laudation - huge impact: large OER projects. In: open-educational-resources.de. Transfer agency for OER, archived from the original on June 2, 2016 ; accessed on June 30, 2016 .
  24. ↑ OER-Award 2016 laudation - university education. In: open-educational-resources.de. Transfer agency for OER, archived from the original on June 2, 2016 ; accessed on June 30, 2016 .
  25. ↑ # OERde16 - OER Award 2016. In: open-educational-resources.de. Transfer agency for OER, archived from the original on June 2, 2016 ; accessed on June 30, 2016 (see section “fOERder-Award”).
  26. ↑ The university, the future and you! Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft eV , archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on June 30, 2016 .
  27. ↑ Robert Bosch Stiftung honors ten people for outstanding social commitment. Robert Bosch Stiftung , archived from the original on January 19, 2016 ; accessed on June 30, 2016 .
  28. ↑ LMU research award for excellent students. Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich , archived from the original on October 9, 2015 ; accessed on June 30, 2016 : “Aeneas Rekkas ... is significantly involved in the development of what is now the largest free math learning site for schoolchildren in Germany (www.serlo.org) ... He has the technical concept supported by Lehr @ LMU himself elaborated, implemented and documented. "
  29. ^ Program of the Vision Summit. (PDF) GENISIS Institute for Social Innovation and Impact Strategies charitable GmbH, p. 5 , archived from the original on June 5, 2016 ; accessed on June 30, 2016 .