Universal Curriculum is a pool of electronic Content covering the main curriculum subjects taught at the level of K-12 education (i.e. pupils from 6 to 18 years old). The subjects within the Universal Curriculum (UC) project include: Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Each subject relates to the relevant level of the general education system (Lower/Upper Primary School or Lower/Upper Secondary School). The content offered for each subject in particular level consists of approximately one hundred top-quality interactive eLessons. Each lesson consists of a separate eTeaching and eLearning section designed for the teachers and pupils respectively. Each eLesson is full of multimedia presentations, illustrative videos, animations, attractive simulations and many interactive exercises and activities.

The Universal Curriculum content is prepared as a generic pool of electronic resources, flexible enough to be adapted to any national curriculum, particular textbook or specific teaching concept. The pool of UC content consists of thousands of Learning Objects, which may be easily translated, rearranged or modified to fit a particular language or purpose. Based on research carried out in various countries, Universal Curriculum is created with multicultural and language-independent content that can be used in the majority of designed for education systems at the level of primary and secondary school.

Universal Curriculum is developed using the most advanced and up to date online technologies. All content objects are delivered in the form of open XML files, which are dynamically interpreted by a lightweight Flash-based plug-in to display on the user's screen. This approach allows the UC content to be playable on practically any operating system (Windows, Mac, Linux) and accessible via any Internet browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla etc). Thanks to the open, XML-based architecture the content may be easily adapted to any modern or future devices such as PDAs or 3G mobile phones. Universal Curriculum's content may be deployed on an online server or via standard offline media such as CD-ROM or DVD-ROM. All content is prepared according to AICC/SCORM standards so it may be instantly deployed and registered within the majority of commercially available Learning Management Systems (LMS).

print version |  back to top