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A new framework to guide OER curation

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It is also identified as a leadership area on the Future Ready Librarians Framework. Over the past couple of years, I’ve had the privilege of serving on the advisory board of the IMLS study, Exploring OER Curation And The Role of School Librarians. Curation is one of our Shared Foundations.

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

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Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. Clearly, curation is not only about OER. For one thing, not all OER are created equally good and not all commercial products are at all bad.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

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Like the DBQs, lessons revolve around a central historical question and sets of prima ry documents to engage learners with varied reading skills. The Reading Like a Historian curriculum also engages students in historical inquiry around both U.S. and world history events.