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| | == Background == | | == Background == |
| | CNBGuatemala.org is a wiki-based website offering the full content of the Guatemalan National Basic Curriculum, open educational resources aligned with it and a variety of teacher professional development resources and teacher tools. By placing this content online and linking items to each other we aim to make it easy for educators to find the relevant parts of the curriculum when engaged in educational planning, but also to access resources that help them teach that curriculum effectively and develop as successful teachers. | | CNBGuatemala.org is a wiki-based website offering the full content of the Guatemalan National Basic Curriculum, open educational resources aligned with it and a variety of teacher professional development resources and teacher tools. By placing this content online and linking items to each other we aim to make it easy for educators to find the relevant parts of the curriculum when engaged in educational planning, but also to access resources that help them teach that curriculum effectively and develop as successful teachers. |
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| − | Educators value this. Since its inception in 2012, the number of users for the website has expanded annually. In 2019 the website was visited by an average of 140,000 individual users each month, mainly teachers in Guatemala. With the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing shutdown visitors increased to over 200,000 individual users each month, and international users (mostly from countries in Latin America) increased from under 25% to over 50% of all visitors. To put this in context, in August 2020 cnbGuatemala.org received around 223,350 individual visitors. This is equivalent to 30% of the [https://www.similarweb.com/website/cnbguatemala.org/?competitors=mineduc.gob.gt traffic visiting the official education portal] in the country for the same period. | + | Educators value this. Since its inception in 2012, the number of users for the website has expanded annually. In 2019 the website was visited by an average of 140,000 individual users each month, mainly teachers in Guatemala. With the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing shutdown visitors increased to over 200,000 individual users each month, and international users (mostly from countries in Latin America) increased from under 25% to over 50% of all visitors. To put this in context, in August 2020 cnbGuatemala.org received around 223,350 individual visitors. This is equivalent to 30% of the [https://www.similarweb.com/website/cnbguatemala.org/?competitors=mineduc.gob.gt traffic visiting the official education portal] in the country for the same period. In 2019 Guatemala reported having 283,724 teachers in total. |
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| − | [[Unique visitors cnbGuatemala, January-August 2019 and 2020.png|center|Website traffic for January-August 2019 and 2020. Source: Google Analytics]] | + | [[Archivo:Unique visitors cnbGuatemala, January-August 2019 and 2020.png|center|Website traffic for January-August 2019 and 2020. Source: Google Analytics]] |
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| | CNBGuatemala.org helps reduce the digital divide. The website is built on [[wikipedia-en:Mediawiki|Mediawiki]] and as such is committed to openness. Users may choose to log in, but they do not need to do so to access any of our contents. And because Mediawiki is constantly developing thanks to a community of programmers that improve its desktop and mobile interfaces, we can focus at relatively low cost on expanding content and improving its educational value. This means a growing proportion of users —mostly educators— find it easy to access and use the curriculum and other contents, wherever they are, whatever their need may be, and based on any technological platform. | | CNBGuatemala.org helps reduce the digital divide. The website is built on [[wikipedia-en:Mediawiki|Mediawiki]] and as such is committed to openness. Users may choose to log in, but they do not need to do so to access any of our contents. And because Mediawiki is constantly developing thanks to a community of programmers that improve its desktop and mobile interfaces, we can focus at relatively low cost on expanding content and improving its educational value. This means a growing proportion of users —mostly educators— find it easy to access and use the curriculum and other contents, wherever they are, whatever their need may be, and based on any technological platform. |
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| | Education is a shared endeavor. Teachers routinely learn from each other and support each other with best practices and educational resources. So far the main contributors of content to the website have been institutional, most notably the [http://www.mineduc.gob.gt/digeduca/ Guatemalan Ministry of Education's Directorate General for Educational Assessment and Research (DIGEDUCA)], and nonprofit organizations committed to developing open educational resources. However, we believe thinking of the curriculum as a platform for educators to share aligned resources will expand the possibilities for more effective teaching and learning. | | Education is a shared endeavor. Teachers routinely learn from each other and support each other with best practices and educational resources. So far the main contributors of content to the website have been institutional, most notably the [http://www.mineduc.gob.gt/digeduca/ Guatemalan Ministry of Education's Directorate General for Educational Assessment and Research (DIGEDUCA)], and nonprofit organizations committed to developing open educational resources. However, we believe thinking of the curriculum as a platform for educators to share aligned resources will expand the possibilities for more effective teaching and learning. |
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| − | We trust this introductory tour to CNBGuatemala will help you appreciate why a wiki-based curriculum website is not just a nice idea, but also a useful one. The tour is designed specifically for the desktop version of the website. Most of the images in this tour are linked to the relevant parts of the website, so you may click on them to see the original of each example. | + | We trust this introductory tour to CNBGuatemala will help you appreciate why a wiki-based curriculum website is not just a nice idea, but also a useful one. The tour is designed specifically for the desktop version of the website. Most of the images in this tour are linked to the relevant parts of the website, so you may click on them to see the original (in Spanish) of each example. |
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| | == What is available on the website == | | == What is available on the website == |