Draft:The NROC Project

The NROC Project (NROC)is a nonprofit education-technology foundation whose mission is to improve student academic success.

History
NROC was founded in 2003 as the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE) by Gary Lopez, formerly a lecturer at the University of California, San Diego and a division president at Harcourt. The initial focus of the organization was the discovery, development, and distribution of open educational resources (OER) supported by grant funding from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Early work by the organization also included the development of the International Journal of Learning and Media in partnership with MIT Press and grant support from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In 2007, the organization created and launched HippoCampus, a website that curated OER for high school and college curricula. The organization also developed OER content, including algebra 1 (2008), developmental math (2011), and developmental English (2014), supported by grants from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2012, NROC moved its focus to college math and English readiness, an issue that has impacted about 60 percent of U.S. high school graduates. It developed a personalized learning platform, EdReady, with grant support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and made it available as an OER for students and a teaching/learning platform to academic institutions.

EdReady
In 2014 the initial use of EdReady was launched by Montana Digital Academy (University of Montana) and the platform was later adopted (as EdReady Montana) for statewide secondary, post-secondary, adult education, and correctional facilities use, supported by the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation. Since then, EdReady has been adopted and implemented by schools and systems across the United States including statewide secondary and post-secondary use by Texas (Texas College Bridge) and North Carolina (College and Career Ready Graduate), by the community college systems of Indiana (Ivy Tech Level Up) and Kentucky (KCTCS EdReady), and hundreds of high schools and colleges across the U.S.