In other news, 14 states have launched #GoOpen initiatives to support school districts as they transition to
using open educational resources (openly licensed materials that educators can share, reuse, and adapt), and 31 districts have committed to replacing at least one traditional textbook with an open educational resource within the next year.
Using open educational resources has become a key part of this progress, even if it wasn't the starting point.
The U.S. DOE's National Education Technology Plans of 2010 and 2016 promoted the concept of
using open educational resources, such as digital open textbooks, as being more dynamic and responsive to the context of the classroom over print - based textbooks, while also providing a significant cost savings to school districts.
In this Q&A, he talks about how his state is
using open educational resources to help support Common Core State Standards.
Jackie Zubrzycki lists the challenges faced by teachers when
using open educational resources, according to the NCTM:
Today's «day in the life» post is one of my current job, which focuses heavily on supporting my fellow faculty find and
use open educational resources (an educational movement to help bring down student costs by using or creating free and high - quality texts and resources instead of expensive textbooks).
In a guest post, Ken Frank of Kellenberg Memoral High School describes one independent school's effort to
use open educational resources to support a classical curriculum.
Not exact matches
As a joint effort of the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Defense, the Learning Registry houses over 400,000
open resources for
educational use.
If you are passionate about accessing and sharing the best, most current
educational resources with others, you may use Open Education Resourc
resources with others, you may
use Open Education
ResourcesResources (OER).
According to the U.S. Department of Education, «Online learning opportunities and the
use of
open educational resources and other technologies can increase
educational productivity by accelerating the rate of learning; reducing costs associated with instructional materials or programs».
IMS or SCORM (
educational standards
used to publish interactive contents in platforms or eLearning tools as Moodle or any other OER (
Open Educational Resources) repositories)
Open educational resources are free digital materials you can
use with your students.
Improve efficiency in the
use of
educational resources (e.g.,
open educational resources that increase academic learning time via text)
Use mysimpleshow in the classroom with your students or contribute to
open educational resources.
Quickly create lessons aligned to standards
using materials from publishers,
open educational resources, or Google Drive
Teachers will be taught copyright, creative commons, and where to find
open educational resources to
use in the production of their iBook.
Its
open, easy - to -
use Personalized Learning Platform, PEAK ™, enables teachers to customize courses
using their own content, FuelEd courses and titles, third - party content, and
open educational resources.
Use OpenEd resources seamlessly in most leading
educational apps!
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (n.d.), which has been working to spread the creation and
use of
open educational resources for more than 10 years, defines OER as
Open education
resources (also known as openly licensed
educational resources)-- Digital learning
resources that have been published with a copyright license that permits their free
use and modification.
Kaysville's Career Path High School gets some national kudos for its
use of
open educational resources.
Open educational resources appear in schools, but they're typically
used as supplemental materials.
A move in the U.S. Senate to promote schools»
use of
open educational resources, if enacted by Congress and ultimately embraced by schools, could have a major impact on the development of curricula and on the companies that provide content to schools, some education experts say.
Many teachers have reportedly begun
using more
open educational resources — freely accessible, openly - licensed documents and programs — in recent years to improve day - to - day teaching, learning and assessment of student progress in real - time.
He is one of a small but growing number of
educational leaders pushing their states to
use free content available online, known as
open educational resources, or develop their own.
Open Range Wyoming is a statewide repository of openly - licensed
educational resources and support Wyoming school districts and educators s they make the transition to the
use of high - quality, openly - licensed
educational resources in their schools.
The term
Open Educational Resources refers to
educational materials that are openly - licensed and freely shared for teachers, students, parents and the public to
use, build upon, and adapt to local needs.
If there are specific
educational resources your students need to access, Kajeet can narrowly tailor modifications to the filter so that we do not
open up significant non-
educational use by students.
To aid districts in their efforts, ASCD will provide professional learning
resources for #GoOpen districts, including an interactive workbook and online course to help educators make
use of
open educational resources.
• Green roof on storage area for growing herbs • The restaurant and the recycling site is
open to the public, schools, and trainee chefs as an
educational resource • Water purification on site to minimize road miles, plastic and glass
use •
Uses green electricity where possible and energy efficiency measures • Carefully honed supply chain emphasizing local producers
Open educational resource examples from within BC and from around the world will be
used to illustrate the rich and diverse range of
resources already available for free and immediate
use.
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.