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?A Playbook to Go Open: 5 Steps to Adopting OER

Edsurge

As momentum for digital learning builds, some districts—80 percent according to the 2017 Consortium for School Networking’s (CoSN) K12 IT Leadership Survey Report —are using open educational resources (OER), which the U.S. But while many benefits of OER are visible on the surface, we must notice the fine print.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Check any guidelines provided by your state DOE. Take note that there categories include elementary, middle, and high school! Digital Curriculum… 24 OER (Open Edu Resources) Free. It might go from text messaging, to email, to a a complete LMS. Do the best that can be done at the the level of capabilities a district is at.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The NAACP endorses OER. ” Gotta love a quote like this, from a story in Edsurge profiling McComb, Mississippi ’s Summit Elementary School: “We are learning how to mitigate between policy and trying to be as innovative as possible without breaking state laws.” No neoliberalism anywhere in ed-tech.