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Navigating the Shift to OER

edWeb.net

Keys to the OER shift: – Community buy-in: The community wasn’t satisfied with the achievement levels and graduation rates. – Vetted OER materials: For every subject, K-12 teachers have a stockbook of vetted OER lessons. This edWeb webinar was hosted by SETDA and sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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The 7 do’s and don’ts of creating your own OERs

eSchool News

Whether you know it or not, most educators have already started creating their own open educational resources (OER) in the form of tests, handouts, and presentations. But there are best practices creating and sharing OERs, which are resources that are freely shared and able to be modified and redistributed.

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Collections by Destiny

NeverEndingSearch

Collections are themed curated resources– digital scrapbooks –gathering a variety of media types to meet the needs of targeted groups of users. You can search for Open Educational Resources (OER) within Destiny Discover and immediately add them to your collections. You may also register for the upcoming July 20 webinar.

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A School Leader’s Guide to Using edWeb for Personalized Teacher PD

edWeb.net

edWeb.net is free and can help school leaders provide teachers with personalized PD that meets teachers’ needs and interests, and promotes collaborative learning with peers. edWeb hosts over 300 webinars per year, providing real-time meet-ups with educators all around the world – a powerful and supportive learning community.

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Open education’s long revolution: Cable Green on Future Trends Forum #11

Bryan Alexander

He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. There was a side meeting on national governments making resources openly resources by default. For example, Oregon announced grants to fund OER creation.

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Open education’s long revolution: Cable Green on Future Trends Forum #11

Bryan Alexander

He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. There was a side meeting on national governments making resources openly resources by default. For example, Oregon announced grants to fund OER creation.

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Week of February 7th, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. SCOPE AND SEQUENCE IN ANVILL ( Host Your Own Webinar Series ) Mon 7 Feb 07:00PM New York / Tue 8 Feb 12:00AM GMT / Tue 8 Feb 11:00AM Sydney Jeff Magoto.

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