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Today's Newsletter: Where to Find & Curate OER Resources

techlearning

Guest post by Steve Baule, Educational Leadership Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Superior: As the school year begins, one of the struggles many teachers have is finding good repositories of Open Education Resources (OER). The OER Commons is a core site with resources from pre-school through adult education.

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How to use digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom

Hapara

Digital textbooks are cost-effective and create equitable, engaging and flexible learning experiences. They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. Second graders will learn about early India and China with this digital textbook. What’s not to love?

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University Scholars Plant Seeds In a New Field of Study: Early Childhood Policy

Edsurge

I didn’t learn until after the fact that you can write a policy for law that’s really well-intended, but how it gets implemented is the real story.” They’ve made 12 modules, four syllabi for upper-level bachelor’s or master’s courses, and several handbooks for guiding faculty and creating internship programs.

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When Opens Collide

Iterating Toward Openness

I defined open pedagogy as ”the set of teaching and learning practices only possible or practical in the context of the 5R permissions” – a definition I have been using in my writing and public speaking since I first blogged about open pedagogy back in 2013 (except there were only 4Rs back then). elicited quite a response. Here’s one.

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What Is Creative Commons and Why Does It Matter?

Graphite Blog

The most open license, and the license generally recommended for open educational resources, or OER , is Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). Students learn to cite sources as part of educational and academic norms from a young age. How do you attribute creators of CC-licensed content?

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What Is Creative Commons and Why Does It Matter?

Graphite Blog

The most open license, and the license generally recommended for open educational resources, or OER , is Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). Students learn to cite sources as part of educational and academic norms from a young age. How do you attribute creators of CC-licensed content?

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HyperDocs and the teacher librarian

NeverEndingSearch

A true extension of what TLs do or should be doing in a hyperlinked information landscape, HyperDocs are all about curation and collaboration, instruction based on engaged inquiry, as well as our mission to inspire learning communities to think, create, share and grow. 2: Determine Cycle of Learning. Grade Level? Content Area(s)?