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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. Slideshow presentations like this Utah social studies presentation.

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

Hapara

The foundation offers textbooks for grades K-12, and you can search by math, science, language arts, social studies and even photography. OER Commons. OER Commons is a digital library full of open educational resources (OER). TextBookGo is a website that has free e-textbooks that teachers and students can download.

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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? and Mary Reiman (NE).

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Cash Awards Honor Faculty and Institutions for Innovative Use of Digital Tools

Edsurge

Fulé and her colleague Don Carter, the university’s director of e-learning, launched the. Peak Performance Mathematics Bridge Program —a six-week summer course for students who place below the first math class in their chosen field of study. As a math instructor, Fulé knows full well the powerful potential of multiplication.

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The Evolving Economics of Educational Materials and Open Educational Resources: Toward Closer Alignment with the Core Values of Education

Iterating Toward Openness

Educational materials published under an open license are called open educational resources (OER). When digital educational materials become OER, they are converted back into public goods. Instructional designers, faculty, and other educators and administrators should develop a basic understanding of OER. Education is Sharing.

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G is for Grounded in Standards: The ABC’s of PBL … Building Blocks, Elements, & Compounds of Deeper Learning

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Study must focus on these along with deeper learning and 21st century skill acquisition. that is seeing content multiply at an expositional rate, it is also important to help students become seekers of knowledge and lifetime self-learners. OER Commons – A great place for open and free content aligned to the standards.

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

Recent studies, including one by Stanford’s CREDO project , have shown virtual schools producing poor results. “We publish studies that show the value that these programs do add. The weight of the activity will be in blended learning, and how you combine the benefits of face-to-face with purely online approaches.”.