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Making the case for common K-12 standards

eSchool News

In this ever-dynamic landscape, “common” standards for education seemingly get a bad rap, but they’re useful, particularly for the development and distribution of open education resources (OER). When OER curation was in its infancy, there were few common standards in place for vetting and cataloging this content.

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From Silos to Sharing: Why Are Open Educational Resources Still So Hard to Find?

Edsurge

For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. From my experience, the answers usually are: OER resources are in silos. Last year, the U.S. Many of the silos are poorly organized.

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McGraw-Hill Education Latest to Adopt Knovation Open Ed. Curated Content

Marketplace K-12

The move follows news earlier this year that Amazon Education is working on Inspire , a platform on which schools will be able to upload, manage, share, and discover such resources, known as OER. While some industry observers see OER as a challenger to the content and curriculum that schools pay for, others are more sanguine.

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Digitizing Curriculum Development: Think Efficiency

edWeb.net

Standards Several – Vendors produce tools that correspond with the Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange (CASE) , specifications that define how systems exchange and manage information about learning standards and/or competencies in a digitally-referenceable way (goodbye PDFs!).

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