Özet:

The Big History Project (BHP) is a free and online training platform created for pilot schools, teachers and educators, covering the history of the Great Explosion to the present day, interdisciplinary. The project is dedicated to developing a greater capacity in learning among high school students. Those who support the project include Bill Gates, David Christian and the University of Michigan. BHP offers the world a great picture and helps students develop a framework to understand what they learn within and outside the school. The courses provide students with a broad perspective on how we have reached today and what we can encounter in the future in the world’s history of 14 billion years. The study, launched in 2011 at 7 pilot schools, has been spread in more than 1,500 schools by 2019. Most of these schools are located in the United States. Students involved in the program show clear and proven achievements in reading, writing and content knowledge. This program is due to the fact that the schools in the UK have also implemented this program in recent years. Despite this success, BHP and the project’s main sponsor, Bill Gates, are criticized for the presentation of the curriculum.