Sentences with phrase «oer curriculum»

The answer also varies by OER curriculum: districts may save more on a typical math curriculum if it requires fewer materials, and many openly - licensed ELA curricula call for the purchase of text sets in order to effectively use the curriculum.

Districts will not need to purchase anything from Open Up Resources in order to use our OER curriculum.

The group was one of two tapped by New York to create a free OER curriculum in ELA that is aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

Not exact matches

There are several examples of OER available, including image and audio resources, books in the public domain, video and audio lectures, interactive simulations, game - based learning programs, lesson plans, textbooks, online course curricula, professional learning programs, and online learning platforms.

OER Commons offers a vast database of teacher - created curriculum and the ability to organize their courses.

OER Commons offers educators a place where they can connect and share globally with other educators, and work with the curriculum those educators have shared.

Additionally, more sharing of relevant curriculum is occurring via terrific open education resources (OER) like EngageNY, OER Commons, CK - 12, and even iTunesU.

I spent a couple days throwing keywords into OER (open education resources are digital materials freely available through open licenses) search engines to assess the quality of secondary and higher education writing curricula.

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.

OER can provide up - to - date textbooks and curricula to meet new, higher academic standards.

Our award - winning OER Professional Learning programs support instructors and curriculum specialists to gain the necessary skills required to find, adapt, and evaluate high quality open materials.

ISKME's Open Author platform and evaluation rubrics allow curriculum leaders to gather Common Core aligned exemplars and frameworks for their teachers, while at the same time, allowing teachers to build and share high quality OER.

OER might have great potential for homeschoolers, private schools, or parents who wish to supplement what their kids learn in school, but public - school educators will be hard - pressed to fit them into curricula that are driven by state standards and assessments.

The OER version gave them a low - risk way to try out the curriculum; the paid version gave them something to buy.

Curriculum Crafter offers K - 12 curricular resources aligned to the Common Core, curated open educational resources (OER) and more than 1,000 sample lesson plans, as well as assignment of standards, standards tracking and full mapping capabilities.

In K - 12 schools, however, where open educational resources have been hailed as an opportunity to democratize high - quality curriculum and break the publishing oligopoly, OER has had a slower uptake.

Larry Singer, CEO of Open Up Resources, a nonprofit that aims to marry the best of traditional K - 12 publishing with the promise of OER, says that teachers aren't paid to do the curriculum selection work of college instructors.

Open Up Resources is a nonprofit developing the highest quality core curricula available to districts, provided for free as Open Educational Resources (OER) to promote educational equity.

Assist the school / district with the identification of standards - aligned text / OER resources and the creation of high quality unit / curriculum development

For a classroom teacher, OER allow the curriculum to stay current, flexible, and customizable.

The SXSWedu conference featured dozens of panels with variations on the theme of how to find accurate assessments of the quality of different course and curriculum options (at the college level as well as in K - 12, and not just OER).

Open Up Resources is a national nonprofit that originated as an open education resource (OER) collaborative founded by 13 states, and has assembled a small distributed team of experienced K - 12 executives who contract with best - in - class partners for high - quality standards - aligned curriculum.

Two Vancouver middle schools will be piloting the new standards - aligned open math curriculum from Open Up Resources (formed as the K - 12 OER Collaborative).

THE Journal applauds Open Up Resources» OER materials, placing our core programs in the context of curriculum's history.

They appreciate the value of OER but Webb is concerned about opportunity gaps if it's not a common coherent curriculum.