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Common Sense Education provides educators and students with the resources they need to harness the power of technology for learning and life. Find a free K-12 Digital Citizenship curriculum, reviews of popular EdTech apps, and resources for protecting student privacy.

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It's time to improve literacy skills during social studies instruction and ensure that readers of all abilities have what they need to access grade-level social studies concepts.

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How does learning change when students have access to digital resources and a learning environment that goes beyond the classroom walls? This toolkit is designed to help educators incorporate digital curriculum by showcasing the research-based practices that other schools have used to great success.

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Open Educational Resources (OER) can enhance a course and add benefit for the learners. But how do you know where and when to use OER? Start by taking a look at the instructional materials you currently use in your courses.

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This week, the OCW Consortium is holding its annual meeting, celebrating 10 years of OpenCourseWare. The movement to make university-level content freely and openly available online began a decade ago, when the faculty at MIT agreed to put the materials from all 2,000 of the university's courses on the Web.

With that gesture, MIT OpenCourseWare helped launch an important educational movement, one that MIT President Susan Hockfield described in her opening remarks at yesterday's meeting as both the child of technology and of a far more ancient academic tradition: "the tradition of the global intellectual commons."

We have looked here before at how OCW has shaped education in the last ten years, but in many ways much of the content that has been posted online remains very much "Web 1.0." That is, while universities have posted their syllabi, handouts, and quizzes online, there has not been - until recently - much "Web 2.0" OCW resources - little opportunity for interaction and engagement with the material.

But as open educational resources and OCW increase in popularity and usage, there are a number of new resources out there that do offer just that. You probably already know about: Khan Academy and Wikipedia, for example. But in the spirit of 10 years of OCW, here's a list of 10 cool OER and OCW resources that you might not know about, but should know:

1. P2PU: The Peer 2 Peer University is a grassroots open education project in which anyone can participate. Volunteers facilitate the courses, but the learners are in charge. P2PU leverages both open content and the open social web, with a model for lifelong learning.

2. OpenStudy: OpenStudy is a social learning network where independent learners and traditional students can come together in a massively-multiplayer study group. Through OpenStudy, learners can find other working in similar content areas in order to support each other and answer each others' questions. OpenStudy supports a number of study groups, including those focused on several MIT OCW courses.

3. NITXY: NIXTY is building a learning management platform that supports open education resources. Rather than an LMS that closes off both academic resources and academic progress, NIXTY is designed to support open courses so that schools, teachers, and students' work is not necessarily closed off from the rest of the Web.

4. OER Glue: Still under development, OER Glue will be a site to watch. The Utah-based startup is building a browser-based tool that will allow students and teachers to "glue" together OER resources online. Rather than having to copy-and-paste resources into a new setting, OER Glue will reuse and integrate resources.

5. iUniv: iUniv is a Japanese startup that is building web and mobile apps to support and make social video and audio OCW content. Resources can be shared to Twitter, Facebook, and Evernote so that students can actively engage in discussions around OCW content.

6. OCWSearch: OCW Search is a search engine dedicated, as the name suggests, to helping learners find OCW content. The project is, unfortunately, no longer under development, but it does index ten universities' OCW content, including MIT, Notre Dame, and The Open University UK.

7. Smarthistory: Smarthistory is a free and open multimedia website that demonstrates how very heavy, pricey, and obsolete the traditional art history textbook is.

8. CK-12: The CK-12 Foundation's Flexbook platform provides free, collaboratively-built and openly-licensed digital textbooks for K-12. Much of the content is standards based.

9. Flat World Knowledge: This is a college textbook publisher whose books are published under an open license. This allows professors to customize the books they order - edit, add to, mix-up - or use as-is. Students can access the books online for free or can pay for print-on-demand and audiobook versions.

10. Connextions: Connextions is a repository of educational content, containing over 17,000 openly licensed learning modules.

If you know of any other great OER and OCW resources, please let us know in the comments!

10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should)

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10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should)

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TED-Ed celebrates the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Discover hundreds of animated lessons, create customized lessons, and share your big ideas.

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PBS LearningMedia | Teaching Resources For Students And Teachers

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An Overview of Curriki - Open-Source Curricula

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The world of open educational resources (OERs) is both a blessing and a curse for educators. The blessing lies in access to a host of free educational materials for use in the classroom. The curse is the sheer scope of the resources and providers.

Elliot Soloway, Arthur F. Thurnau professor at the University of Michigan, has heard tales of educators spending hours researching OERs when all they need is a few specific items. He fears that this leads teachers to attempt to reinvent the wheel nightly. "And what a horrible thought that is," he says.

Soloway points to a number of websites that provide more than OER content (videos, PDFs and other media that inform); they offer full lessons and curricula.

"And many educators know, there's a world of difference between content and curriculum - vetted, standards-aligned, scope and sequenced learning activities," Soloway said.

Here are his top recommendations for curricula:

ck12.org. This site has been around for years, and for good reason - it meets the needs of K-12 teachers. In addition to the usual assortment of OER content, teachers will find full lesson plans that are easily incorporated into classrooms.

edmodo.com. Also a pioneer among OER sites, Edmodo offers a time-saving "Spotlight" search to help teachers find specific OER elements.

opened.com. Turn to this OER for the greatest range of assessments available anywhere.

gooru.org. Not only does this site provide lesson plans, it offers full courses that can be downloaded and used - and they're all free!

curriki.org. Also an early OER resource, curriki.org provides content and also makes it easy for educators to share their OER-based lessons.

Educators interested in learning about a free, device-agnostic platform for creating OERs, monitoring students in real time and assessing student artifacts can join Soloway and colleague Cathie Norris for the ISTE Professional Learning Series webinar "Digital Lessons to Reap the Benefits of Your 1:1 Classroom" April 5. Participants will:

Learn how to best support student collaboration in 1:1 environments.

Get tips for managing a 1:1 classroom.

Gather best practices for creating digital curricula.

ISTE members can sign up now for the ISTE Professional Learning Series that includes the webinar "Digital Lessons to Reap the Benefits of Your 1:1 Classroom." Not a member? Join ISTE today.

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LibGuides: OER - Open Educational Resources: Big List of Resources

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Open Educational Resources (OER) are any type of educational material that are freely available for teachers and students to use, adapt, share, and reuse.

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Open Author helps you build and publish Open Educational Resources for you and for the benefit of educators and learners everywhere.

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