In this module, we are going to explore ways to create your own OER.
This module focuses on building a base understanding of what is Open Educational Resources. As you journey through this module there are rich content and opportunities to deepen your knowledge working independently or with thought partners. Here are the outcomes you will accomplish from completing this course.
If you have found yourself searching for, adapting or creating materials for your heritage classes because of a lack of readily available commercial resources, this site is for you!
ISKME's Design Lab 2011: Make an OER Maker Faire participants collaborate in ISKME's Design Lab to brainstorm, prototype, and present new ideas in teaching and learning. This wiki page showcases photos and video from the Design Lab and a step by step guide through the design process used.
ISKME's OER Commons Teacher Training Initiative offers teachers a collaborative professional development model centered on engagement with Open Educational Resources (OER). The OER Commons Teacher Training Initiative is rooted in the idea that equitable access to high-quality education is a global imperative. Open Educational Resources, or OER, offer opportunities for systemic change in teaching and learning through accessible content, and importantly, through embedding participatory processes and effective technologies to engage with learning for all.
This collection of lessons represent adapted and remixed instructional content for teaching media literacy and specifically civic online reasoning through distance learning. These lessons take students through the steps necessary to source online content, verify evidence presented, and corroborate claims with other sources.
The original lesson plans are the work of Stanford History Education Group, licensed under CC 4.0. Please refer to the full text lesson plans at Stanford History Education Group’s, Civic Online Reasoning Curriculum for specifics regarding background, research findings, and additional curriculum for teaching media literacy in the twenty-first century.
This collection of lessons represent adapted and remixed instructional content for teaching media literacy and specifically civic online reasoning through distance learning. These lessons take students through the steps necessary to source online content, verify evidence presented, and corroborate claims with other sources.
The original lesson plans are the work of Stanford History Education Group, licensed under CC 4.0. Please refer to the full text lesson plans at Stanford History Education Group’s, Civic Online Reasoning Curriculum for specifics regarding background, research findings, and additional curriculum for teaching media literacy in the twenty-first century.
Step 2 of Lesson Builder: After I have done Task and Resources, I hit Save and then chose the green button Next:Describe. This is what shows as the Overview of the lesson. I will also choose other searchable items in this step like mandatory fields of Subjects, Languages, Keywords, and License. Other options that are not mandatory are Grades, Education levels, Educational use, Media formats, Standards.
Slidedeck with information on: Introduction to OER, Creative Commons licensing, finding OER, and additional information.
This webpage contains a list of other OER repositories. Most links are for Higher Ed repositories but there may be some links that contain K-12 OER material as well.
The unit is focused on the examination of geography in terms of “place.” Students dive into inquiry to answer the compelling question, What is unique about living in Washington? Through this question students will understand where and why people live in Washington State. Students will dive into the regions of Washington State and define it through many characteristics. Students will ultimately choose a region to become an expert on and communicate what makes that region unique. Each student’s performance task product will reflect choice and build upon student strengths according to their skill set.
Why do open educational resources matter? What is the point of using OER? Below are some of the benefits of using open educational resources that I have seen while working with OER over the past several years.
Official Convening Videos from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's 2011 Open Educational Resources Grantees Meeting, OER 2011: The Impact of Open on Teaching and Learning. The meeting was a deep dive into the "O" of the OER movement and will explore issues around shifting OER from the niche to the mainstream in the years ahead. Spanning two and a half days, the convening highlighted accomplishments by OER grantees and provide a unique opportunity for collaboration on how OER can go further to make a significant and positive impact on teachers and learners worldwide.
This slidedeck can be used to introduce people to OER. It includes basic information about OER, such as defining OER, what they are and are not, understanding permissions, etc.
If you take this content and revise and remix it into another portal, please share the modified resource back here at #GoOpen Michigan. Thank you.
A Google Sheet of dozens of OER and/or Free resources which are hyperlinked!
Presentation for school leaders, including superintendents and principals, that covers the possible fiscal, student learning and teaching impacts of using OER in the classroom. It has examples from Liberty Public School, MO - one of the first #GoOpen Ambassador school districts in the US. Links to resources and research (from 2015-2018) is included on the presentation.
A workbook for administrators looking to have a coordinated OER implementation in their district, building, or target group; includes questions to answer and activities to help guide the work. This is a remix of 11 other OER resources, along with original work.
Presentation created for the Marlette Board of Education to provide overview of GoOpen and Marlette's current status as a #GoOpen district.
An Introduction to OER slidedeck created for Bay-Arenac teachers. Presented at the back-to-school professional learning event.
This resource gives information about our solar system which is made up of the sun, planets and all the amazing objects that travel around it. Information about the plant sizes, distances in the solar system and the size and shape of orbits is also explained. The universe is filled with billions of star systems. And the star system we are most familiar with is our own.