The Oppia team works to create effective, enjoyable online lessons at scale that can reach millions of people. We want every individual, no matter what their personal circumstances, to have access to learning experiences that are not only pedagogically effective, but also fun and engaging. Our focus is on reducing the equity gap in access to education, and we are currently working on providing free and effective basic math and science lessons that can be played on cheap Android devices to learners in underserved communities around the world. Oppia's lessons have already reached over 2,000,000 users, and learners using our basic mathematics curriculum have seen gains of over 50% from pre-test to post-test. You can read some examples of our work in these blog posts https //medium.com/@ebelubhuhiose/86b97283edf4 and https //medium.com/@ojobusayo99/6e783aaddb74 .

A key differentiator of Oppia is its unique technology platform, which simulates an interactive tutor by adapting each lesson to individual learners’ needs and providing specific, targeted feedback to help them improve. Furthermore, all our lessons are openly licensed and the platform is open source, which enables a diverse group of educators and technologists from around the world to regularly iterate on and improve them.

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If you’re an experienced educator and passionate about eradicating education inequality, keep reading! Oppia is looking for someone to join our team creating online interactive mathematics lessons, targeted at underserved students.

Who We Are

The Oppia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the mission to provide high quality education to all. We do this through the creation and maintenance of our platform, Oppia (http //www.oppia.org), the coordination of our passionate contributors, and the development of critical partnerships with NGOs in the communities we aim to serve.

Where You Fit In

Millions of children are not receiving the education they deserve. Of the 61 million children worldwide who cannot attend primary school, 17 million will never step foot into a school if trends continue. And, unfortunately, even those students who are in school may not receive the effective education they need.

To address this need, our community of volunteers have created a series of online mathematics lessons that have proved highly engaging and effective, including in a randomized controlled trial. The lessons allow students to learn by doing, automatically giving personalized and supportive real-time feedback -- similar to a tutor or game. And they are based around stories in order to keep students engaged. You can see an example at https //www.oppia.org/collection/4UgTQUc1tala

We are looking for passionate educators, ideally with a background in educational writing, to create further lessons of this kind.

Why Oppia is an Organization You Want to Work With

• Oppia has served over 1,000,000 users.
• Oppia’s current library consists of more than 20,000 lessons.
• Oppia focuses on effectiveness. Our continuous improvement process involves rigorous user testing and RCTs to ensure we create high quality educational materials catered to the needs of our most underserved global learners.
• Oppia consists of passionate volunteers from across the globe, so our meetings are held online at flexible times.
  
  

What Our Lesson Creation Team Contributes

• Break down mathematical concepts, and enumerate the skills for a given mathematical topic.
• Create interesting stories to accompany the math outline.
• Draft outlines of the lessons that are based on the above math and story outlines.
• Implement these outlines as interactive lessons on Oppia.org.
• Improve the lessons based on feedback from students, in particular in developing countries such as India and Ghana.
  
  

To start with, you’ll receive individual training and mentorship by experienced lesson creators, and will be working closely with a team of other creators. As you become more experienced, there may be opportunities to mentor other creators as well!