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University Scholars Plant Seeds In a New Field of Study: Early Childhood Policy

Edsurge

They’ve made 12 modules, four syllabi for upper-level bachelor’s or master’s courses, and several handbooks for guiding faculty and creating internship programs. Instead, they’ve recruited an advisory team and developed a strategy for intentionally planting seeds—and sometimes full-grown trees—at institutions across the country.

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HyperDocs and the teacher librarian

NeverEndingSearch

They can also incorporate such content-rich resources as library databases, ebooks, videos, and the growing array of available OERs. I see HyperDocs as an instructional strategy crying out for school librarian partnership, especially if you are working at a Google Classroom school. HyperDoc Handbook (Amazon). Templates abound.

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The Consensus Around “Open”

Iterating Toward Openness

The most frequently cited definition of OER is the Hewlett Foundation definition : OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. faculty are completely unaware of OER.

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