Math/Science lesson creator

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!