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So... How can UDL & OER address various gaps in education?

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So... How can UDL & OER address various gaps in education?

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Another form of OER's is for students as well. Open textbooks are an example of open educational resources available to students as well!

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Based on the 5 R's:
- Retain
- Reuse
- Revise
- Remix
- Redistribute

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Further your education on OER by check out this video.

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How OER is going to help me as a future educator.

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How OER is going to help me as a future educator.

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This is a link to the OER Commons. This is a public library of educational resources. The goal is to collaborate and communicate with other teachers to improve curriculum.

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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.

Learn more about creating OER

Groups provides a flexible environment to organize, create, share, and discuss resources with others in your network. Collaborate with group members, tag and add resources to shared folders, create your own collections, all within a public or private group.

Groups

Search through collections curated by our digital librarians

Collections

Common Core resources organized for your needs

Common Core

Hubs

A Custom Resource Center

Projects, districts, states, and initiatives make use of Hubs to bring groups of educators together to create, organize, and share OER collections that meet their common goals. Explore Hubs

Microsites

Custom Digital Libraries

Microsites are custom, flexible sites that include all the features available on OER Commons. Microsites allow your users to search resource collections using a custom taxonomy at a unique URL. Contact Us

Our award-winning OER Professional Learning programs support instructors and curriculum specialists to gain the necessary skills required to find, adapt, and evaluate high quality open materials.

In-person and virtual OER workshops help focus instructors to develop a "commons" mindset, to experience the benefits of open processes using the platform's tools, collaborative features, and workflows. This can include using Open Author for creating, remixing, and publishing shared curriculum.

Learn More

How to Search OER Commons

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OER Commons is a dynamic digital library and network. Explore open education resources and join our network of educators dedicated to curriculum improvement.

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OER is teaching, learning, and research materials that are  open to the public for educators.

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Further your education on UDL by checking out this TED talk.

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Why We Need Universal Design | Michael Nesmith | TEDxBoulder

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So, how do you use UDL in the classroom? Take a listen on my thoughts. 

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So, how do you use UDL in the classroom? Take a listen on my thoughts. 

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UDL is a way to serve ALL learners, no matter socioeconomic background, culture, ethnicity, language, etc.

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Representation means teacher or facilitator provides multiple ways to represent content.

Action/Expression means that teacher or facilitator allows the student to show mastery of content in a way that feels most comfortable to them.

Engagement means ways that the teacher or facilitator motivates the student to learn using different methods.