Not exact matches
Open Educational Resources (
OER) platforms
offer another area of innovation and opportunity.
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.
Both iTunesU and
OER Commons are well - respected
OER sites, and both
offer a wealth of vetted, credible information that can be integrated into your instruction.
This video by Iranian open e-learning website Tavaana makes the case that in some places,
OER may
offer the only access to quality free - thinking education.
Connexions is another free
OER offering that allows users to sign up with a username and password to access a variety of modules and collections on multiple devices.
A chorus of voices from the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), a foundation that
offers workshops, support and training for
OER.
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.
ISKME's
OER Commons Teacher Training Initiative
offers teachers a collaborative professional development model centered on engagement with Open Educational Resources (
OER).
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.
She and her fellow panelists mentioned a few
OER sources that do provide teacher support (aka professional development) in their
offerings.
Remember that open education resources
offer incredible benefits to teachers and students and that the BPS EdTech Team is available to support teachers with the transition to
OER.
This is just a small sampling of what Better Lesson has to
offer to teachers and it's just one
OER resource to consider.
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.