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The RISE Package for R: Reducing Time Through the OER Continuous Improvement Cycle

Iterating Toward Openness

By definition, open educational resources (OER) are licensed in a manner that gives you permission to change, update, and improve them. Learning analytics, on the other hand, can provide great insight into where course materials – including OER – are not effectively supporting student learning.

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CommonLit: OER Curation and Creation

NeverEndingSearch

The authentic interdisciplinary text includes news articles, short stories, speeches, poems, historical documents and excerpts from classical literature, all selected to support the course of study for middle and high school, especially for English, social students, science. Registration is free.

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New Teaching Resource for Digital Literacy

ProfHacker

Now Mike has published an OER textbook, Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers. For these daily tasks, student don’t need long lists of questions to think about while gazing at web documents. The end of the book also contains a number of “Unfinished Articles” that need some more work (which he welcomes).

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Ten Engaging Digital Education Sites For Any Social Studies Classroom

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

You will discover a wide variety of materials including readings, OER (Open Education Resources), primary documents, textbooks, lessons, activities, interactives, videos, audios, and some great blog readings. OER Commons – What a wonderful place to find open educational resources.

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Part 4: Over 150 STEM Resources for PBL and Authentic Learning… Math

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

PDF documents. Find standards-aligned content and assign practice exercises, videos and articles. Curriki Algebra – This is an Open Education Resource (OER) Algebra course that consists of five units aligned to the Common Core. You will also find articles aimed at older students.

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Part 1: Over 150 STEM Resources for PBL and Authentic Learning… Science

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Frontiers Science For Kid s – Not only are these articles for kids… they are written by kids. Project Noah – Visit tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere. Best of all the same article can be transformed by grade level or lexile.

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Reflections on 20 Years of Open Content: Lessons from Open Source

Iterating Toward Openness

What if we applied open licenses to things like textbooks and research articles – things that aren’t software? RedHat published its technical documentation under the OPL. .” I tentatively wrote emails to Richard Stallman and Eric Raymond, introducing myself and pitching the idea. That would be important, right?

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