Getting started for Technology Partners
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Getting Started Steps for Technology Partners
Decide which collaboration approach works for you
Sign up through our onboarding form and let us know what you are working on
Set yourself up or work with our teams and community to onboard
Overview
What major challenges is Navigator solving for you?
You own your own data, and are given tools to leverage it, understand it and to make it work for you.
You and your users gain a rapidly expanding research backed map of learning, and GPS-like tools to navigate it.
You join a community built tool, built by fellow schools, researchers, educators and even students to solve your very real challenges. By working together, every challenge solved is shared with the whole ecosystem to the benefit of everyone!
What is Navigated Learning (NL)
Navigated Learning locates a learner’s current knowledge, interests and mindsets and based on their learning destination, provides a personalized pathway of activities and makes reroute suggestions based on performance until the learner reaches their learning destination.
Navigated Learning operationalizes learning principles using emerging ideas in artificial intelligence and data science, resulting in the continuous, real-time generation of students’ cognitive and non-cognitive data to support a teacher’s ability to customize instruction. In Navigated Learning, every aspect of the learning ecosystem and experience is aligned around learners gaining mastery in the various competencies they are expected to learn. Navigated Learning uses local curriculum standards to determine academic expectations and define proficiency in a given subject.
The Navigator functions as a GPS where learners are offered personalized turn-by-turn directions to reach their stated learning destination and are enabled by the data and learning science discussed above. At the same time, it provides all stakeholders (e.g. teachers, administrators, funders) real-time data to provide support and implement in-the-moment changes. It incorporates the science and math of understanding the learner and the learning space to locate a student's knowledge, skills and disposition, and navigates them to their learning destination with an adaptive, data-driven approach. As a data backbone, it brings transparency to all learning stakeholders and enables coordination and self-regulation to improve outcomes for all learners.
To ensure learners positive learning outcomes, we need a curated set of learning activities, a thorough understanding of the learner, and a system to suggest the activities to the learners using principles of learning. Gooru is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with the mission to honor the human right to education. Gooru, with inputs from its collaborators - researchers, content providers, implementers, technologists, and educators - has developed the Learning Navigator
EdTech companies can integrate the Navigator tools to accelerate learning outcomes with their applications. The following brief videos illustrate the product - a) Navigator Overview: An overview of Navigator’s four tools for Learners, Instructors, Administrators, and Content Providers; and b) Navigator for Mission Control: An overview of how stakeholders monitor and measure learning outcomes with Navigator for Mission Control’s real-time data dashboards; and c) Navigator Impact: Navigator tools are integrated by 11 partners to reach more than 6 million users across disciplines and geographies.
The 8 Products you could collaborate on
Navigator for Learners
Helps your students improve their scores and gain mastery through Gooru’s full spectrum of activities, personalized interventions, and customized routes. They can view their progress on their individualized Skylines and see them grow as they master each concept.
Navigator for Instructors
Provides your teachers with resources to fill gaps within your existing curriculum and gives them real-time insights into each student in each class. They can engage students with media-rich content and suggest personalized learning activities.
Navigator for Guardians
Navigator for Guardians provides real time data about their students performance to parents, guardians or other mentors.
Navigator Library
With Navigator Library your teachers gain access to over 4 million open education resources across diverse authors, learning styles, and disciplines and can transform any curriculum into a Navigator course.
Mission Control
allows administrators to access real-time data to coordinate and scale success. Everyone can feel confident in making data-informed decisions based on learning gains, learner performance across competency frameworks, and time spent on learning activities.
Researchers
Navigator Research Portal enables researchers to enhance Navigator with their science and verify it for improved outcomes with lab-schools.
Navigator for Administrator
Lets the administrator set up a custom tenancy, roster users, and control other account settings for various roles and functionalities with precision.
Developers
Navigator Platform includes APIs and widgets that allows the curated catalog and Navigated Learning functionality to be integrated into any 3rd party application.
Getting Started
Decide which Implementation works for you
While independent learners or Instructors could just start using Navigator simply by signing up, many technology partners have other use cases with additional administrative and reporting requirements. To address these requirements the Gooru community have developed Mission control, Navigator Library, Navigator Admin, Navigator for developers and Navigator for researchers. To gain access to these specialist tools you will either need to setup your own instance on your own servers, or have us host it for you. Alternately, you may just be interested in integration, To guide you through your chose refer to the below guide:
Self setup Or integration
Learn how to Integrate by visiting our Developer portal
Setup your own instance Visit our GitHub repo here
Create your own courses
Roster your learners
Comprehensive self service instructions are being developed.
$ FREE
Supported Setup
We setup your server
We support your onboarding requirements
We provide training to teachers and administrators
You gain access to premium courses and content.
Small per/user/year fee + setup Contact us for pricing.
Sign up
Signing up will be a lot easier soon, for now, please email partner@gooru.org
Even if you are going to use the Self-service free option, please reach out and let us know how you will be using it. Consider joining the community as we all work together to solve each others challenges.
FAQ
What should Technology Partners (who will use our API layer to extend workflows) be prepared for?
Partners need to have understanding of SSO models and should be using an identity provisioning system that can be configured at Navigator for SSO flows.
Partners should be able to share their roster data in OneRoster standards format, or via ClassLink Roster API.
Partners should be able to understand competency based learning model, bring in the frameworks of interest and be able to map the frameworks to other similar frameworks.
Partners should be able to identify, create and curate content relevant to the competency model of interest; and be able to setup content working together with NLC.
Partners should be able to use shared API that requires understanding of RESTful services and sync/async mechanisms to extend any workflows in their products to bring Navigator into play.
Partners should be able to push data (either as xAPI or Navigator specific data-in format) via shared API.
Partners should be able to sync data (either LTI outcomes or xAPI or Navigator specific data-out format) to their system via shared API model.
What should Technology Partners (who will use Navigator in closed environment while extending workflows) should be prepared for?
Partners need to have understanding of SSO models and should be using an identity provisioning system that can be configured at Navigator for SSO flows.
Partners should be able to share their roster data in OneRoster standards format, or via ClassLink Roster API.
Partners should be able to understand competency based learning model, bring in the frameworks of interest and be able to map the frameworks to other similar frameworks.
Partners should be able to identify, create and curate content relevant to the competency model of interest; and be able to setup content working together with other NLC Partners.
Partners should be able to use shared API that requires understanding of RESTful services and sync/async mechanisms to extend any workflows in their products to bring Navigator into play.
Partners should be able to push data (either as xAPI or Navigator specific data-in format) via shared API.
Partners should be able to sync data (either LTI outcomes or xAPI or Navigator specific data-out format) to their system via shared API model.
Partners should be able to design deploy architecture based on guidance from other NLC Partners and should have expertise on AWS services, hosting & infra-manage.
What should application developers (who will extend Navigator and make contributions to core solution -- more of engineering team extension) should be prepared for?
Partners should have good understanding of microservices architecture
Partners should have good understanding of RESTful API design
Partners should have good understanding of Java-based implementations
Partners should have good understanding of front-end implementations based on EmberJS
How often will the openly licensed educational resources be reviewed and refreshed?
One of the many benefits of OER is the ability to update and refresh instructional materials. Instructional teams and classroom teachers that implement new instructional materials convene regularly to review and assess the current resources, add new ones, and remove outdated or ineffective resources. Districts aggregate feedback from classroom teachers throughout the year. All of the information is used to evaluate and refresh resources.
