Sentences with phrase «as open educational resources»

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.

Edtech enthusiasts promote the benefits of innovations such as open educational resources (OER), learning management systems (LMS), and adaptive learning software.

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.

Georgia Virtual School makes its online course content available as an open educational resource to schools across the state and beyond.

CAST released the modules as an open educational resource.

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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.

Open educational resources (OER), also known as openly licensed resources, can take numerous forms.

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)

It can provide students with open access to a wide range of high - quality educational resources and the freedom to explore those resources, as well as opportunities to receive immediate feedback.

In addition to teaching, I presently work as an editor for an online open education platform for senior high school students and teachers designing educational resources.

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.

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).

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.

In our district, school librarians are the experts in finding and evaluating open educational resources — and helping teachers learn to do so as well.

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.

Open educational resources appear in schools, but they're typically used as supplemental materials.

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.

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 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.

• 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

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.