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Today's Newsletter: Where to Find & Curate OER Resources

techlearning

Guest post by Steve Baule, Educational Leadership Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Superior: As the school year begins, one of the struggles many teachers have is finding good repositories of Open Education Resources (OER). The OER Commons is a core site with resources from pre-school through adult education.

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How to use digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom

Hapara

They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. High school language arts – “Writing Guide with Handbook” With this online textbook focused on writing, high school learners will think critically about a variety of genres of writing.

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University Scholars Plant Seeds In a New Field of Study: Early Childhood Policy

Edsurge

They’ve made 12 modules, four syllabi for upper-level bachelor’s or master’s courses, and several handbooks for guiding faculty and creating internship programs. They’re not stopping at resources, though. If we really believe family voice matters, how does that look in legislation? How do we design standards that prioritize that?”

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When Opens Collide

Iterating Toward Openness

On reflection it seems that the subtle difference between these two forms of open is that the open in OER, etc. ” Half of the definitions listed on Wikipedia explicitly reference OER, while the other half come from very different places.). I do remain concerned about a few things, though. Here’s one.

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What Is Creative Commons and Why Does It Matter?

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The most open license, and the license generally recommended for open educational resources, or OER , is Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). CC licenses are the legal tools that help you discover, share, remix, and build upon educational resources, which is what makes them open educational resources, or OER.

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What Is Creative Commons and Why Does It Matter?

Graphite Blog

The most open license, and the license generally recommended for open educational resources, or OER , is Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). CC licenses are the legal tools that help you discover, share, remix, and build upon educational resources, which is what makes them open educational resources, or OER.

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The Consensus Around “Open”

Iterating Toward Openness

The most frequently cited definition of OER is the Hewlett Foundation definition : OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. faculty are completely unaware of OER.

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