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What does an OER lesson plan look like?

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K-12 schools and districts turn to open educational resources (OER) for their flexibility. When you search for OER, you can find already-created lesson plans or other resources to add to your own class plans. Let’s look at the benefits of using an OER lesson plan and what it looks like. Why use an OER lesson plan?

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A day in the life with Student Dashboard Digital Backpack

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and Mrs. Perkins, a fifth-grade teacher, browses the district’s library of content in H?para Mr. Stone locates openly licensed content found on OER Commons and uploads it within the Student Dashboard Digital Backpack. Mrs. Perkins reviews the Student Dashboard Digital Backpack library of content that her district has curated.

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10 of the best K-12 sources for digital textbooks online

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OER Commons. OER Commons is a digital library full of open educational resources (OER). While their library contains several different types of materials, it is also a source for digital textbooks. . Wikibooks is a public library featuring open-content digital textbooks. Open Textbook Library.

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How to use digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom

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They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. Digital Backpack even includes an already-built library of openly-licensed and public textbooks that your school or district can distribute. Request a demo today to learn more! FREE GUIDE FOR EDUCATORS. Find out how H?para

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Digital versus physical textbooks

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You can find these digital textbooks on open educational resource (OER) sites. It also allows instructional teams to upload their own digital textbooks and create a vetted school library. Schedule a demo today! Affordable for school districts. Easy distribution across a school district. See how it works.

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Can US Higher Education Publishers Leverage a Subscription Model

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But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? When students started migrating towards used textbooks, rentals, MOOCs and OER due to the high prices of printed textbooks, it affected the revenues of traditional book publishers.

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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

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If educational institutes start adopting OERs in classrooms, students will be able to save a lot of money that would otherwise be spent on purchasing textbooks and rental subscriptions. Although rentals are a good option approved by educational institutes, OER is yet to be widely accepted by educational institutes.