eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2018

To meet current math standards like the Louisiana Student Standards for Mathematics or the Common Core State Standards, it is no longer enough for students to simply memorize how to do something. Choosing an OER turned out to be a great way to garner teacher buy-in, which is essential to the success of any instructional program.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

Open resources can help design attractive, engaging lessons with a Common Core twist. In 2010, my state, Mississippi, joined the growing list of states adopting the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and math. Next page: OER in action.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Those in the puppy camp argued, with good reason, that free curricula and OER content were hardly free once the related costs and risks were factored in. So the discovery, vetting, and alignment costs inflicted upon the teachers and districts that would try to embrace free and OER content would remain high.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Authored by nonprofit Illustrative Mathematics, the curriculum covers Common Core standards for grades 6-8 math. But the move to OER and digital curriculum hasn’t been completely smooth for everyone, Williams adds. Today, the organization is launching its first full (and free) math curriculum as a starting (and proving) point.

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Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. “Interactive Middle School Math 7” This middle school math online textbook aligns to the Common Core State Standards.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2017

In this ever-dynamic landscape, “common” standards for education seemingly get a bad rap, but they’re useful, particularly for the development and distribution of open education resources (OER). When OER curation was in its infancy, there were few common standards in place for vetting and cataloging this content.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

OER Commons – Take a look at these results from a search I did for STEAM based activities. Since it is OER (Open Education Resources) it is free. Each project aligns with common core and national standards and delivers measurable learning while using free software.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2016

EdCaliber and Mathematics Vision Project integrate OER math curriculum and support materials into Lessoneer teacher empowerment platform. Among Open Educational Resources, the MVP curriculum uniquely embodies the focus, coherence, and rigor of the Common Core,” said Ruth Miller, EdCaliber Chief Academic Officer.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

backlash , in the words of Education Week’s Benjamin Herold, “echoes previous battles among various teachers’ union factions over highly politicized issues such as the Common Core State Standards and standardized testing.”. Few education entrepreneurs today would suggest that technology should or will replace the teacher. (In

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. A Listing Of 25 OER (Open Education Resource Sites).

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 21, 2016

The CommonLit library of more than 440 readings may be browsed or searched by keyword and filtered by such criteria as: recent additions, Lexile, grade, theme, genre, literary device demonstrated, and Common Core Reading: Literature standards.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

OER Commons – Take a look at these results from a search I did for STEAM based activities. Since it is OER (Open Education Resources) it is free. Each project aligns with common core and national standards and delivers measurable learning while using free software.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. From my experience, the answers usually are: OER resources are in silos. Last year, the U.S. Forty-two states and Washington, D.C.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Lessons are aligned to Common Core Standards and explore real life questions. Curriki Algebra – This is an Open Education Resource (OER) Algebra course that consists of five units aligned to the Common Core. TedEd – The makers of TED… these really are some wonderful flipped lessons with formative tools built in.

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. Resources: “Finding the Nouns or Facts” How might your identification of the curriculum standard nouns along with OER fit into a classroom ?

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

techlearning

OCTOBER 3, 2018

OER Commons – Take a look at these results from a search I did for STEAM based activities. Since it is OER (Open Education Resources) it is free. Each project aligns with common core and national standards and delivers measurable learning while using free software.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 28, 2017

Offering a familiar, filtered Amazon search/shopping interface, Inspire allows educators to discover, download, curate and share Open Educational Resources (OER). Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 For more ways to access and use OER content, check out: Pearltrees on OER Portals. Sample entry.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 7, 2015

Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. In the last few posts we discovers nouns that could uncover OER (Open Education Resources) and verbs that could lead to important digital tools that allow for process development. Past Series Articles.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2016

OER meets iPads in this district. Top BYOD tools for the Common Core classroom. With just 4 categories and less than a dozen tools, educators can hit a lot of Common Core standards. With just 4 categories and less than a dozen tools, educators can hit a lot of Common Core standards.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. The mood was positive, especially as OER adoption seems to be rising, reaching <>15% of adoption in some cases. Does OER currenlty exist in the P-12 sector?”

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. The mood was positive, especially as OER adoption seems to be rising, reaching <>15% of adoption in some cases. Does OER currenlty exist in the P-12 sector?”

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Trends OER Policies Conference 40

Kathy Schrock

JANUARY 7, 2025

This list includes support materials for assessments that work with the Common Core State Standards and rubrics for many different assessment products. common-sense introduction to rubrics Quality rubrics wiki.an common-sense introduction to rubrics Quality rubrics wiki.an

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Educator Innovator

MAY 18, 2016

As the use of digital content in education connects to improved teaching and learning, our partner OER Commons aims to elevate the potential of the school librarian, especially in relation to open educational resources (OER).

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Kathy Schrock

JANUARY 7, 2025

This list includes support materials for assessments that work with the Common Core State Standards and rubrics for many different assessment products. common-sense introduction to rubrics Quality rubrics wiki.an common-sense introduction to rubrics Quality rubrics wiki.an

Assessment 40

Assessment Common Core Wiki Educreations 40

Educator Innovator

MAY 18, 2016

As the use of digital content in education connects to improved teaching and learning, our partner OER Commons aims to elevate the potential of the school librarian, especially in relation to open educational resources (OER).

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 28, 2017

More than three-quarters of teachers say their districts either recommended or required use of some materials through EngageNY, an open education resource aligned to the Common Core State Standards. The post Report Breaks Down the Big Appetite for EngageNY Among Nation’s Teachers appeared first on Market Brief.

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Report Common Core Resources Education 40

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 14, 2016

OER Commons – Take a look at these results from a search I did for STEAM based activities. Since it is OER (Open Education Resources) it is free. Each project aligns with common core and national standards and delivers measurable learning while using free software.

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STEM Resources OER Conference 60

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The platform gives teachers and administrators the flexibility to mix and match content from a growing number of open educational resources (OER), to digitize existing content, or to build their own. . “ASSISTments allows teachers to assign what they want, when they want, free of charge. Assist students through immediate feedback.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Dr. (Assistant Professor of Elementary and Early Childhood Education) Using Scratch and Picoboards to teach "x", Maths and Science - Martin Levins, Director IT What''s The Connection?

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STEM Maker Movement MOOC Common Core 41

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

For this reason, many educational standards, including the Common Core, emphasize the importance of being able to read, write, and interact across a range of media, platforms, and tools. In the digital age, inquiry and problem-solving can span across a range of media and tools. This skill is often referred to as "transliteracy."

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Chromebook Blendspace Libraries Conference 28

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

I recently had the honor of traveling to the MIT campus in Boston and participating in a panel discussion on Open Education Resources (OER) at The Sixth Conference of MIT''s Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC) with three illustrious advocates of these open resources: Nicole Allen, Philipp Schmidt, and panel moderator Steve Carson.

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OER Resources Education Common Core 259

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Digital OER are free. In K-12 schools, however, where open educational resources have been hailed as an opportunity to democratize high-quality curriculum and break the publishing oligopoly, OER has had a slower uptake. There’s a lot of buzz around OER in schools and districts, but actual practice hasn’t reached systemic levels.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” Via Chalkbeat : “‘ Common Core ’ no more: New York moves to adopt revised standards with new name.” IBM wants us to believe that Watson is incredibly powerful – powerful enough, even, to search 1000 OER. More LAUSD news in the legal section below.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Common Core State Standards. I haven’t put the Common Core State Standards on this list because I think the content of the standards was bad.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

“ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. ” Edreports.org has released new reports on math textbooks and how well they align to the Common Core. .” ( No disclosure about shared investors.). Via CNBC : “This Chinese-Israeli start-up wants to change the way kids learn to code.”

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

According to the conservative news site The Daily Caller , “Bailing On Common Core Tests Is Costing States Millions.” Via Education Week : “ Common Core , College Readiness Skills Don’t Match Up, Study Says.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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