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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 math – “Precalculus” Several college educators collaborated on this textbook to use in any pre-calculus course. FREE GUIDE FOR EDUCATORS. View our educator one-pager.

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

Edsurge

She brought to the role practical expertise, having spent more than two decades working as an early childhood educator. 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.

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What Is Creative Commons and Why Does It Matter?

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As K-12 educators, you face unique challenges when it comes to using the Web. The most open license, and the license generally recommended for open educational resources, or OER , is Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). Students learn to cite sources as part of educational and academic norms from a young age.

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What Is Creative Commons and Why Does It Matter?

Graphite Blog

As K-12 educators, you face unique challenges when it comes to using the Web. The most open license, and the license generally recommended for open educational resources, or OER , is Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). Students learn to cite sources as part of educational and academic norms from a young age.

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When Opens Collide

Iterating Toward Openness

As I continue to ponder the Twitter conversations with Mike, Robin, Maha, and others, as well as what’s been written on blogs like those by Clint (which came before mine) and Jim (which came after), it appears that what is happening is that the “open” in open education is colliding with the “open” in open web. Here’s one.

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HyperDocs and the teacher librarian

NeverEndingSearch

With strong educational philosophies built into each one, HyperDocs have the potential to shift the way you instruct with technology. They are created by teachers and given to students to engage, educate, and inspire learning. HyperDoc Handbook (Amazon). I recently interviewed the three teachers behind the HyperDocs model.