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17 things to know about K-12 OER textbooks

Hapara

Has your school district started to use open educational resources (OER) yet? If so, they’ve found out how many great resources are available online to use, share and modify. But has your school district considered K-12 OER textbooks? First, OER are free for anyone to use. They’ll save your school district money.

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How to develop K-12 open educational resources

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Have you ever considered creating your own open educational resources (OER)? When you build your own, you can differentiate instruction and support every student with the specific learning content they need. Let’s take a look at how to develop K-12 open educational resources. Types of OER you can develop for K-12.

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'Better Every Semester': How Faculty Use Open Educational Resources to Improve Courses

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So Hardy and a colleague decided to create their own lab manual—and make it open access. They worked nights and weekends to develop the resource, which can be used digitally through a WordPress website or downloaded as a PDF. Much of the attention that open educational resources have earned focuses on their low cost.

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SETDA Launches Cybersecurity Resource Focused on Small, Rural, and Under-resourced Districts

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. — Today, SETDA is pleased to announce the release of a cybersecurity resource focused on small, rural, and under-resourced districts. It is the newest addition to SETDA’s Cybersecurity & Privacy Collection , available for access in their OER Commons site. “As

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Open Educational Resources Are ‘Moving Up the Adoption Ladder’ Around the World

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Open educational resources have gone global and may help make learning more accessible, equitable and inclusive around the world. OER was one of six “emerging technologies and practices” the panelists highlighted as most likely to significantly influence postsecondary teaching and learning in the future. “It

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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

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In early 2017, organizations that have focused on digital learning came together to better leverage their strengths and capacities for a common goal: improving student success. The first goal was to create an environmental scan of the digital learning environment in higher education with a focus on adaptive technology.

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Adopting Open Educational Resources Can Help Students. But It Takes Time, Money and Effort.

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There’s new evidence that open educational resources may contribute to helping students complete college. The findings come out of the Achieving the Dream OER Degree Initiative , which provided grant money to 38 community colleges across 13 states to create degree pathways of courses that use OER materials instead of commercial textbooks.

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