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How to develop K-12 open educational resources

Hapara

Have you ever considered creating your own open educational resources (OER)? Because these resources are open to use, when you share an OER, other educators across the globe can access it and use it in their classrooms. Let’s take a look at how to develop K-12 open educational resources. Types of OER you can develop for K-12.

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OER Had Its Breakthrough in 2017. Next Year, It Will Become an Essential Teaching Tool

Edsurge

Open educational resources (OER) have long been touted as “the next big thing” in higher education, but the drawn-out hype has led many educators and administrators to wonder if it would ever live up to its expectations. Those days are over: 2017 was OER’s breakthrough year. That happened in 2017. Ohio University is doing the same.

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The Real Threat of OER

Iterating Toward Openness

He writes, “While to an OER advocate faculty are mere pawns to their agenda, to publishers, faculty are critical partners in academic success.” ” The overwhelming majority of OER advocates are faculty, and they have become OER advocates for two reasons.

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Beyond Free Materials: OER Advocates Push For Inclusiveness in Teaching Practices

Edsurge

Determining where educators draw the line for failure, whether that’s with students of color, low-income students, immigrant students or some other group, determines educational outcomes and equity opportunities for the future. Before closing the keynote talk, Mitchell left listeners with another question: Is open content enough?

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Learning takes a Village

Connecting 2 the World

Sessions in Creating an Accessible Syllabus, Global OER, Entangled Pedagogy and Liberating Structures may at first seem totally different. But the outcomes are transactional knowledge, with the ownership determined by the school, students, and educational policies. But my mind is always trying to find links and common threads.

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OPINION: Teaching social and emotional skills is easy when students already have them — what about those who don’t?

The Hechinger Report

Conversations among educators and policymakers about how to incorporate social and emotional skills into classrooms often do not address the need to support students who require extra help with these skills. Related: The ‘forgotten’ part of special education that could lead to better outcomes for students.

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

Iterating Toward Openness

I’ll be writing a range of essays this year reflecting on two decades of work toward opening the core intellectual infrastructure of education (textbooks and other educational materials, assessments, and outcomes / objectives / competency statements) in order to increase access to and improve the effectiveness of education.

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