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How to develop K-12 open educational resources

Hapara

Have you ever considered creating your own open educational resources (OER)? When you build your own, you can differentiate instruction and support every student with the specific learning content they need. Types of OER you can develop for K-12. Why you should develop OER for K-12.

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How a University Took on the Textbook Industry

Edsurge

And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. Many members use them as physical examples they can show faculty when they’re introducing them to open textbooks.” By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S.

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Stereotyping, Behavior, and Belonging in the Open Education Community

Iterating Toward Openness

It’s a topic that I’ve been thinking about recently, particularly with yesterday’s revelation that Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation. ”, you declare, “the overwhelming majority of OER in the world are licensed in ways that permit commercial use, so what’s the problem?” “But wait!”,

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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

Edsurge

Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. This panel asks how this technology might expand the walls of the classroom—or isolate students from the learning environment. and insights into how edtech can help schools support individualized learning.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.). As such these companies – Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and the like – are the most significant education companies.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” Because technology imperialism.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. Lots of press releases were issued this week to coincide with the ISTE conference in Denver – Amazon’s new OER platform, for example. month gives you a “personalized learning plan.”

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