Curriki Accelerates Social Innovation by Developing E-learning Solutions With Red Hat Open Innovation Labs

SINGAPORE
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June 10, 2021
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Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Curriki, a non-profit that builds tools that enable open access for all to the technologies that can transform the way educational experiences are designed, created, and delivered, has completed a six-week Red Hat Open Innovation Labs residency to develop education solutions for students using a flexible, responsive approach to developing digital learning content.

The education landscape is evolving rapidly with the pace of digital transformation and changing learning needs. The realities of virtual learning have created numerous challenges for parents, teachers, and most of all the students. To use technology to help solve this issue Curriki launched CurrikiStudio, the first free and open, interactive learning content authoring solution, designed to accelerate and scale digital-first content development.

During the pandemic the Curriki team needed to scale CurrikiStudio to millions of users and deploy it to different cloud providers. This led Curriki to work with Red Hat Open Innovation Labs to help make its offerings, including CurrikiStudio more accessible to education institutes. Using Red Hat OpenShift, the team was able to build more reliability, availability and scalability into its solutions. Curriki streamlined its tools, making them even more simple and seamless to set up and install on all major cloud platforms, allowing education institutes to get started on creating interactive lessons rapidly. Red Hat Open Innovation Labs also introduced agile methodology, including DevOps, to Curriki’s teams, enabling them to develop their software more efficiently and increase productivity. By building more robust solutions and productive teams, Curriki is better positioned to extend its offerings to the learning departments of businesses and government agencies.

Red Hat Open Innovation Labs enables customers to work collaboratively in a residency-oriented lab environment with Red Hat experts through flexible formats. Usually held on the customers’ site, Curriki and Red Hat teams adapted to the pandemic restrictions with a virtual residency. The collaboration led the Curriki team in achieving six months of work in six weeks which included optimizing code, leveraging auto scaling capabilities with the help of OpenShift, automating the installation through push button deployment and containerizing CurrikiStudio.

Launched in 2016, Red Hat Open Innovation Labs offers customers an immersive experience through a dedicated consulting service during a 4-12 week residency that helps companies integrate open processes, culture and technology to solve business challenges. Through Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, customers can take advantage of mentoring and open source tooling to help their organization rapidly accelerate business initiatives – whether working on creative new digital applications or modernization initiatives, such as moving a monolithic application to a modern microservices architecture.

To extend the impact of the virtual residency, and to continue to grow their Red Hat OpenShift skills, Curriki has begun using Red Hat Learning Subscription.