eSchool News
DECEMBER 23, 2022
That’s why I’ve turned to open educational resources (OER). OER are openly licensed, which means that educators can use, customize, and share these resources for free, allowing them to incorporate material that’s fresh and relevant for their students—all without having to worry about traditional copyright restrictions.
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
As schools and districts try to reduce textbook costs and digitize instructional resources, one of the struggles many teachers have is finding good repositories of open education resources (OER). The first step is to know how to access OER resources. Accessing OER. How to find OER.
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The Hechinger Report
MARCH 13, 2018
Leave this field empty if you're human: Teachers often spend many hours at night or on weekends searching the internet for good instructional materials – or just good ideas about how to meld online learning into their classrooms. These OER – open educational resources – may be good, bad or indifferent.
Digital Promise
MAY 20, 2016
We at Designers for Learning responded to this call by inviting instructional designers, developers, and adult educators to join a crowdsourcing effort to develop free open educational resources (OER) for adults with low math and literacy skills. The four key factors: Use a real-world instructional design challenge.
eSchool News
AUGUST 23, 2015
In a letter sent earlier this month, a group of ed-tech stakeholders urged the Obama administration to make federally-funded educational materials available as Open Educational Resources (OER). Next page: Five core principles for OER policies. Open Government National Action Plan.
eSchool News
DECEMBER 9, 2018
To meet current math standards like the Louisiana Student Standards for Mathematics or the Common Core State Standards, it is no longer enough for students to simply memorize how to do something. They must demonstrate a deeper understanding and be able to explain the “why” behind the “how.”.
NeverEndingSearch
JULY 5, 2017
Teacher librarians also show young people how to curate around their own interests and how to create launchpads to manage their information worlds. 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.
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