The potential to
use open education resources for everything from a course supplement, to a course component, to a complete course, to curricula for an entire credential will be explored.
Hear from national experts about ways professional learning communities and instructional teams can effectively
use Open Education Resources (OER) and data from well - designed assessments to chart an effective teaching and learning path.
If you are passionate about accessing and sharing the best, most current educational resources with others, you may
use Open Education Resources (OER).
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.
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».
OER provide
open licenses for the
use, repurposing and dissemination of a myriad of
education resources.
Kerry's passions and the focus of her work include empowering teachers, students and parents to learn with
open education resources; educating school communities about the power and privacy concerns that come with social media
use, and diving headfirst into learning more about new and effective practices in
education.
These partnerships allow educators to select appropriate teaching
resources from a range of instructional content options — including
open education resources —
using a student's RIT score from NWEA» sMeasures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment.
TeachingWorks
Open Discussion: Digital
Resources for Use in Teacher Education Video and other digital resources can be valuable tools for training new
Resources for
Use in Teacher
Education Video and other digital
resources can be valuable tools for training new
resources can be valuable tools for training new teachers.
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.
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.
Free curriculum sites, such as Curriki and
Open Education Resource Commons, provide a vast archive of content for teachers to
use whole cloth or as a supplement to what they are already teaching.
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.
Education Week covers the release of Illustrative Mathematics 6 — 8 Math,
Open Up
Resources» middle school math curriculum, which is now available for all educators to download,
use, and adapt for free.
Announced last November, the U.S. Department of
Education's #GoOpen campaign aims to require all copyrightable
resources developed with federal grant funds to have an
open license, making them free to be customized, distributed, and
used.
White tuition is certainly a great concern, the immediate costs borne by students in purchasing their casebooks and texts should not be forgotten
Open Education practitioners often
use something called
Open Educational
Resources (OER) to meet their mission.
Of course,
Open Education,
Open Educational
Resources (OER) and indeed, even the word
Open itself as
used in these and related terms require a bit of unpacking to understand fully.
Benefits associated with
open education resource use from student, instructor and institution perspectives will be discussed.
This session will conclude with an overview of current trends and directions associated with
open education resource development and
use around the world.