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What a Homework Help Site’s Move to Host Open Educational Resources Could Mean

Edsurge

In May, the homework-help site that relies on student-generated content, Course Hero, dipped its toes into freely available, openly licensed alternatives known as Open Educational Resources, or OER, course materials. This was the company’s “first foray” into OER, and it is still figuring out how the OER fits, Morris says. “I

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Five digital citizenship activities everyone should know about

Hapara

YouTube algorithms: How to avoid the rabbit hole Explore how to use SEL to benefit learners and retain your teachers Check out our SEL strategies that can help you create a more positive and equitable school and district culture. Hāpara can help your school or district easily build and distribute a digital OER textbook collection.

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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

NeverEndingSearch

We need strategies for personalizing and enriching the remote learning experience. Currently, one very popular strategy is the creation of classroom scenes using Google Slides populated with their flexible Bitmojis. I started playing around with the fairly easy and recently very popular strategy of building a library scene in Slides.

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Toward Renewable Assessments

Iterating Toward Openness

A change of this magnitude – and really, any change in assessment strategy – deserves to be well understood. My colleagues in the Open Education Group and I like to say that when you’re considering the outcomes of research on OER adoption, there are “two ways to win.” . “You promise learn.

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. Along the way they experience collateral benefits of developing learning agility, building social capital and demonstrating creativity. Curating OER. Clearly, curation is not only about OER.

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New Teaching Resource for Digital Literacy

ProfHacker

Now Mike has published an OER textbook, Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers. While both these activities are valuable, neither addresses a set of real problems students confront daily: evaluating the information that reaches them through their social media streams.

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ISTE Librarians’ Takeaways (Crowdsourced)

NeverEndingSearch

I was honored to join several esteemed colleagues to present on the panel: Leading the Charge: Leveraging Librarian Leadership to Support the OER Journey. And here is the sketchnote Margaret Sisler created during the session: #oer and teacher librarians! This year, I created an elective, Social Justice through Social Media.