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David, Goliath, and the Future of the U.S. K-12 OER Movement

Doug Levin

K-12 education system by open educational resources (OER) since 2009, although my first exposure to the ideas and leaders of the movement stretch back to the launch of the MIT OpenCourseWare initiative. This is where context matters most for the OER movement. Even within the U.S.

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These Colleges Are Betting That Culturally Relevant Textbooks Will Improve Student Outcomes

Edsurge

The funds will cover financial support and mentorship for faculty who create new open educational resources (OER for short) or adapt existing open textbooks. We’re trying to encourage a model of deliberately constructing or reconstructing OER to fit the needs of your learners and not necessarily just to create a textbook.”

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?Teachers Can Now Use IBM’s Watson to Search for Free Lesson Plans

Edsurge

From that focus group they narrowed the list of potential applications to professional development tools and, eventually, settled on a searchable database exclusively for elementary school math. Theoretically, the search tool should improve and refine itself based on data from users, potentially providing more relevant results as time passes.

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What does an OER lesson plan look like?

Hapara

K-12 schools and districts turn to open educational resources (OER) for their flexibility. When you search for OER, you can find already-created lesson plans or other resources to add to your own class plans. Let’s look at the benefits of using an OER lesson plan and what it looks like. Why use an OER lesson plan?

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

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Globe – Program is an international science and education program that provides students and the public worldwide with the opportunity to participate in data collection and the scientific process, and contribute meaningfully to our understanding of the Earth system and global environment. You will feel the engagement.

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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

Not all students can have one-on-one, in-person support, and not all students want that,” says Kathy Hall, principal of Perry Elementary in Ohio and a Ripple Effects implementer. Related: How to sort the good from the bad in OER. Failure to prepare any student with these skills is a violation of equity considerations in education.

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"Libraries as Community Anchors" - a Library 2.0 Mini-Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He manages a portfolio of grants focused on building equitable digital communities, including open educational resources (OER), digital inclusion, data privacy and security, open data, civic technology and e-books. She attended the local elementary and high school and now serves as a school board member.