In contrast, the growing body of
OER content available online today provides teachers with a broad selection of resources that address a wide variety of topics, learning needs, pedagogical approaches, and student circumstances.
Additionally, teachers can modify much of the available
OER content to tailor it further to their students» circumstances.
As a mark of the expected value of OER, a number of major philanthropic organizations, including the Hewlett Foundation, Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC), and the CK - 12 Foundation, are investing in the creation and development of
OER content and OER curation tools; and the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has a project, called the Learning Registry, which helps make
OER content easier for teachers to find.
For Summit and LPS,
OER content allows them to gather and deploy content that is custom aligned with their innovative personalized learning models without also having to go into the business of being content developers and publishers.
Instead of considering how they can use particular
OER content and OER curation platforms to transform instruction, schools too often look only at whether OER solutions cover the required content for given courses or are easy and appealing for teachers and students in traditional classrooms to pick up and use.
A major benefit of
OER content is that it gives schools and teachers instructional «Legos» that they can organize, revise, and combine more easily to create custom learning solutions that meet their students» needs.
If we want the organizations that produce, catalog, curate, and package
OER content to get better at helping students learn, then we need to make sure that the funding and adoption of OER are driven by this priority.
The district is implementing
OER content from EngageNY and purchased devices for students with the savings from instructional materials.
Eaton will discuss how her district's integration of Gooru and other
OER content fits into its digital curriculum strategy, and how the use of high - quality, curated OER is impacting student engagement.
Eastwood imagines that over time these technologies would also know the different students based on their reading levels, numeracy, background knowledge, and other areas, such that it could provide access to the appropriate
OER content to support that specific child in continuing her learning.
Teachers and school librarians, for example, are working together in states like Arkansas, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Tennessee, Utah, and Washington to make sense of and make better use of a wide array of high quality
OER content in OER Commons.
Not exact matches
The blog makes
content available as Open educational Resources (
OER);
content that is available for reuse and redistribution by third parties globally, provided that it is attributed to its creator.
It is curious that Mr. McShane presents the
OER movement as an effort to disrupt the textbook market rather than as a widespread effort to create, share, remix, and reuse learning
content.
With funding from major foundations and with state and district efforts to train teachers to become
content curators, as opposed to
content consumers,
OER is helping to mobilize educators and librarians to bring quality, curated
content to school and college classrooms in ways that students learn best.
Educators can piece together
OER to create customized units or use individual
OER to supplement core
content.
(Winter 2017) makes the case that educators are essentially consumers of open education resources (
OER) who lack the time, skill, and support to handle the «administrivia» required to be serious developers of
content and pedagogy that can meet the needs of their students.
It helps create an amazing blended learning experience using
content from publishers, school - provided
content, Open Educational Resources (
OERs) and their own materials.
OER, a part of the global open
content movement, are shared teaching, learning, and research resources available under legally recognized open licenses — free for people to reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute.
Recently at Burlington Public Schools, we have moved toward opening up our course
content and started organizing our faculty - created resources — presentations, assignment sheets, etc. — along with
OER options.
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First, how can
OER advocates maintain a steady stream of high - quality and relevant
content?
Similarly, Leadership Public Schools (LPS) is working with an edtech company, called Gooru, to develop a Navigator platform that houses collections of
OER course materials that cover the core
content for some of its courses.
But the increased use of chunked digital
content, especially
OER, is not without pitfalls.
OER materials provide our teachers with the ability to customize
content for the specific needs of their classes.
• 75 % of districts use
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Ed tech media (including this magazine) has fairly hummed with the topic, largely with exciting predictions:
OER would give cash - strapped K - 12 educators access to high - quality tools and
content for their classrooms at little or no cost.
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Students are guaranteed an engaging learning experience through the ability to build from any source or mode of
content, including textbooks, Open Educational Resources (
OER), and real - time media.
Junyo Streams is a K - 12 classroom toolset that empowers teachers personalize learning by building and sharing individual playlist «streams» of
OER and licensed digital
content.
Unlock a wide variety of new and enriching learning material with built - in support for third - party
content and integration with Open Educational Resource (
OER) platforms.
Media4Math has a robust
OER library of free resources, a Marketplace of downloadable
content, and a Subscription service for classroom resources.
We realize the benefits, both financial and from a pedagogical stand point of «going open» and plan to curate
OER resources with teachers of all grade levels and
content areas over the next few years.
You can clip
content such as videos, articles, images, games and more from the web; you can upload
content you already have on your desktop, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.; you can pull
content from your district's «stream»; connect to premium channels in your stream such as Discovery Education; or connect to
OER channels in your stream.
This website, Open Education Resource (
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Courseware was launched, which is a digital solution built on a foundation of open education resources or
OER, and is enhanced with
content such as quizzes, videos, and self - assessments for students, along with analytics tools that allow faculty to monitor student performance.
Additionally, VitalSource is supporting user - added EPUB
content in its downloadable apps, providing access for assistive technologies to a wide range of Open Education Resources (
OER) and other
content sources.
Through our strong partnerships with over 250 publishers,
OER providers, and learning management systems, Copia Class offers world - class educational
content in an easy - to - use, cloud - based reading platform.
Developed in partnership with Thoughtworks, the platform will manage publisher - donated, DRM - protected
content with a one - user, one - book model, along with a curated collection of open educational resources (
OER) in a cloud - based environment that will not require a local server.