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AI, Instructional Design, and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

The potential partnership between OpenAI (the makers of ChatGPT) and Microsoft may even present the first substantive challenge to Google’s search monopoly we’ve ever seen – and that’s saying something. And, because you’ve got to play the hits, let’s look at what their impact will be on OER as well.

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How to develop K-12 open educational resources

Hapara

Have you ever considered creating your own open educational resources (OER)? Because these resources are open to use, when you share an OER, other educators across the globe can access it and use it in their classrooms. Types of OER you can develop for K-12. Pre-assessments like this clouds pre-assessment.

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Launching Real “Reading Progress”: A Game Changer from Microsoft Education

NeverEndingSearch

In school hallways across the country, it’s not uncommon to see children sitting with adults who are there to assess their reading fluency and growth stopwatch in hand. Submitted student recordings are available anytime as a running record for teacher assessment. In classrooms everywhere, children called on to read aloud.

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SETDA Launches Cybersecurity Resource Focused on Small, Rural, and Under-resourced Districts

eSchool News

In collaboration with Microsoft and the K12 Security Information eXchange (K12 SIX), this initiative underscores SETDA’s commitment to providing essential tools and guidance to support state educational agencies. It is the newest addition to SETDA’s Cybersecurity & Privacy Collection , available for access in their OER Commons site. “As

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How a University Took on the Textbook Industry

Edsurge

And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. Some professors have aesthetic objections to OER materials. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one. Because most U.S.

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Part 1… The Center: Free Blended and eLearning PBL Gold Standards Resources

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

The standards and skills are constantly assessed in a variety of ways involving numerous stake holders. Most of all, there is an alignment between standards, skills, and assessment. Since collaboration is at the heart of PBL it should always be included and assessed. Student self-assessment is powerful.

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Blended Learning and Project Based Learning… Taking the PBL Gold Standards Online

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OER Commons : ( [link] ) – Wonderful place to find lessons and blended learning ideas that can cover standards that fit into a PBL or just a single lesson. PBL Works Rubrics : ( [link] ) – A premier site for finding rubrics that will help students and teachers assess the 21st century skills. A true free Goldmine!