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How to sort the good from the bad in OER

The Hechinger Report

These OER – open educational resources – may be good, bad or indifferent. There’s more bad OER out there than good; that’s a fact,” said Rebecca Kockler, assistant superintendent of academic instruction for the state of Louisiana, at the annual SXSWedu conference last week in Austin, Texas. Using OER wasn’t our goal,” Kockler said.

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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. “Interactive Middle School Math 7” This middle school math online textbook aligns to the Common Core State Standards.

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Using Tech to Support Literacy Across 13.8 Billion Years of History

Edsurge

Using OER is hard. Over sandwiches and iced tea, we talked about the challenges of OER. Working across so many disparate texts, it would be nearly impossible for a teacher to create anything like this when using OER. Yet, the goal across BHP’s activities and assessment is consistency. Full size image here. Source: BHP.

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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. Forty-two states and Washington, D.C.

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Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Welcome to a series of posts that are dedicated to going beyond the shine of technology by examining ways to use digital tools to engage students in real learning. Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Contains formative learning and assessment opportunities.

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

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Geogebra – Get this free online math tools for graphing, geometry, 3D, and more! Students find that math is a tool to explore the world around us. Lessons are aligned to Common Core Standards and explore real life questions. The projects cover the scope of Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, and Precalculus.

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