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OER and you. The curation mandate

NeverEndingSearch

At the #GoOpen Exchange on Friday, everyone was talking about OER and the need to curate. But it was clear to our little group, that to the larger majority of the participants, we were not even on the OER radar. Some OER background: Launched in October, GoOpen is a U.S. What are OER? We made an impact.

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itslearning, Gooru enhance LMS platform with open content

eSchool News

The alliance will initially give teachers an avenue to find, remix and share collections and courses of open content designed for future-ready learning.

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. Clearly, curation is not only about OER. For one thing, not all OER are created equally good and not all commercial products are at all bad. “ Curation.”

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State and District Leadership Discuss Digital Learning Opportunities

edWeb.net

Of course, schools can’t make the switch to digital overnight. This broadcast was hosted by edWeb.net , SETDA , and Future Ready Schools , and sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Bart Rocco. Students can now have an entire library in their backpack, and this changes the dynamic for schools and students.

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Events + News - K12 Online Call for Proposals - Library 2.0 Spring Summit Recordings - Starting to Homeschool Webinar Today

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

And, of course, we hope you'll join us to continue the conversation at Library 2.015 in October! Learning Revolution Events Future Ready Schools: 2015 School Leadership Summit , June 24th Each year TICAL holds an annual School Leadership Summit. Department of Education's Future Ready Pledge. Follow #k12online15.

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Final Speakers List + Registration for October 6th "Libraries of the Future" Online Mini-Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

She was previously an assistant professor at the University of Arizona, and has taught courses for San José State University and the University of Washington. He holds an M.Ed from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Dreaming bigger for Iowa education

Dangerously Irrelevant

What if… every Urban Education Network of Iowa district had an ‘alternative’ high school for low-achieving students that focused on creative inquiry, collaborative problem-solving, and community contribution instead of worksheet packets and self-paced online courses? some may already). kind of like Iowa BIG in Cedar Rapids).

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