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The Role of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Making Education Available to All

A Principal's Reflections

I recently had the honor of traveling to the MIT campus in Boston and participating in a panel discussion on Open Education Resources (OER) at The Sixth Conference of MIT''s Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC) with three illustrious advocates of these open resources: Nicole Allen, Philipp Schmidt, and panel moderator Steve Carson.

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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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Interview with André Spang, @Tastenspieler: Remix the Textbook!

Teacher Reboot Camp

André Spang studied classical and jazz piano at the Colleges of Saarbrücken and Cologne, Germany and film scoring and arranging at Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA. André is a #DigitalLeadLearner, using web media and iPads in the classroom, an OER maker and a founder of the German Twitter chat, #EDchatDE.

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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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The Emergency Home Learning (& More) Summit - 110 sessions + 80 replays #homelearningsummit #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Open Source and OER ? Alice Keeler : Interview Amany Kheriba : OER: A way out through pandemics and beyond Amna Manzoor : Veni, vidi and vici: Ingenious, Making the Most Out of the Pandemic! Starting to Homeschool : Webinar #4: Challenges and Concerns: What Are YOUR Challenges and Concerns for Parents and Children While Homeschooling?

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Access State-Reviewed Instructional Materials with SETDA’s Dashboard

edWeb.net

This edWeb webinar referenced above was hosted by SETDA and sponsored by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Recent publications and projects include Navigating the Digital Shift, Digital Instructional Materials Acquisition Policies for States, OER Case Studies: Implementation in Action, The Broadband Imperative and From Data to Information.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment. I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment. Read the article or watch the webinar. Check out my Booking Page .