THE Journal applauds Open Up Resources»
OER materials, placing our core programs in the context of curriculum's history.
OER materials provide our teachers with the ability to customize content for the specific needs of their classes.
Throughout the course, participants will engage with
OER materials, interact with classmates to share learning and insights, and reflect on their learning experience.
Not exact matches
Employing a strategic combination of detailed electronic structure calculations, combinatorial
materials synthesis, and both traditional and high - throughout photoelectrochemistry measurements, the JCAP team identified earth - abundant copper and manganese vanadate complex oxides that meet highly demanding requirements for photoanodes: low band gap energy, stability under highly oxidizing conditions, and valence band alignment with respect to
OER.
These «5R permissions» of
OER allow you to not only access the
materials and resources free of charge, but also to make them even better.
It helps create an amazing blended learning experience using content from publishers, school - provided content, Open Educational Resources (
OERs) and their own
materials.
It's worth noting that many of the larger repositories for
OER will include copyright information, and their
materials will typically adhere to some established criteria.
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.
This isn't Core Knowledge's first toe in the pond of
OER [open educational resources], which generally means that
materials can be downloaded for free, modified, and shared, though sometimes not for commercial gain.
Open Education Resource Commons (
OER)(www.oercommons.org) is a hive of literature, scholarly work, instructional
materials and open courses via reputable institutions.
Open Educational Resources (
OER) are learning
materials that are freely available to use, remix, and redistribute.
In the United States,
OER can fill key gaps in the market for instructional
materials and offer educators innovative ways to engage students and exchange best practices.
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.
The district is implementing
OER content from EngageNY and purchased devices for students with the savings from instructional
materials.
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.
Second, it is working with a set of districts around the country to encourage them to adopt
OER as course
materials.
Happily, our teachers, librarians, and teaching and learning specialists have found a wealth of excellent
materials through open educational resources, also known as
OER (Marcinek, 2013).
And the perception of
OER is still that it's only good for supplemental, one - off
materials.
OER appears in schools, as supplemental
material mostly, but it isn't even close to breaking the reliance on traditional, proprietary texts.
OER are freely available
materials that can be downloaded, edited, and shared to better serve all students.
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.
The impact of this work stretches from the four pilot districts in the northeast to many educators across the U.S. Whether you are looking for strategies to help you adapt your existing
materials, or are searching for high - quality
OER units, stay tuned for an exciting and informative blog series to come!
Now, as the implementation dates for the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) loom large, many districts are facing the need to buy new instructional
materials aligned with the standards, and
OER is a hotter topic than ever.
The inventory of these open resources is exploding, and advocates such as the
OER Commons and Achieve are providing districts and teachers with tools for determining the degree of standards alignment of these
materials.
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.
Athabasca University has announced it will not renew the Access Copyright license and in doing so says they plan to «make more extensive use of open educational resources (
OERs),
material such as lectures, texts, lessons and podcasts produced by other universities and made freely available for use.