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What happens when people around the world can share their content and research? This video shows what can happen with climate change research being shared.

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Open Education Matters: Why is it important to share content?

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3rd place winner on the "Why Open Education Matters" contest of the US Dept. of Education http://www.ed.gov/blog/2012/07/why-open-education-matters-video-competition-winners-announced/ Director & author: Nadia Mireles http://nadiamireles.blogspot.com/ Producers: http://funktionell.com.mx Need this video in another language? Contact Nadia Mireles through a youtube message. Like the graphics and characters?

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Presented by the University of Pittsburgh, this "Big List" features subject specific resources, complete courses, multimedia information on OERs, images, open access textbooks, and large repositories of teaching and learning resources. (I partly saved this here so I can come back to this list myself!)

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Edutopia has an introduction to OERs, as well as information on where to find OERs and on quality control. This article also shares subject-specific links for OERs across grade levels.

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Open Educational Resources (OER): Resource Roundup

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An educators’ guide to open educational resources with information about online repositories, curriculum-sharing websites, and sources for lesson plans and activities.

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Free reading comprehension instruction. Includes curriculum and tools to use with K-12 students, and includes connections with other subjects like STEM, Social Studies, and the Arts.

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ReadWorks | Award-Winning, EdTech Nonprofit Organization

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ReadWorks is an edtech nonprofit organization that is committed to helping to solve America’s reading comprehension crisis.

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Science: National Science Discovery Library

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Science: National Science Discovery Library

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The OER Commons created this extensive repository of open, free-to-use science resources for students of any grade. It includes a search feature to narrow down specific topics, and alignment with Common Core Reading/Math and Next Generation Science Standards.

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Search through collections curated by our digital librarians

Collections

Browse an alphabetical list of all participating providers

Providers

Search our extensive library and find exactly what you need

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Use the OER Commons website to find out more about the goals of OER, resources, and groups of educators and providers.

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OER Commons forges alliances between trusted content providers and creative users and re-users of OER. In addition to content partnerships, OER Commons, and its creator, ISKME, builds strategic relationships with organizations, consortia, states, districts, and others, in order to develop innovation and new research focused on OER, to advance the field of open education, and to build models for its sustainability.

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Click here to access Creative Commons. This website uses multiple platforms (like Wikipedia, YouTube, and Flickr) to share intellectual and creative work for others to use, remix, and share, allowing users to be unconcerned with fair use or legal issues.

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Geared more towards middle and high school students. The Library of Congress features open resources for students and educators to research and learn from sources around the world.

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The world’s largest library. View historic photos, maps, books and more. Contact experts for help with research. Plan a visit. Home of U.S. Copyright Office.

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Students K to High School can use Khan Academy for free. This website brings students through math lessons by grade level, and advances upon mastery.

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Free and Paid Resources: Teachers Pay Teachers

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Free and Paid Resources: Teachers Pay Teachers

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While providing a lot of paid material, also has a lot of free resources for teachers to download and use with their students.

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World's most popular online marketplace for original educational resources with more than four million resources available for use today.

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Find inspiration through Pinterest! Lesson plans, organization, units, decorations and themes, PD opportunities, crafts, and anything else that other teachers have shared.

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Discover recipes, home ideas, style inspiration and other ideas to try.

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General Resources: Google Classroom and G Suite

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General Resources: Google Classroom and G Suite

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Use Google Classroom and the other G Suite for Education apps (Docs, Slides, Sheets, etc) to collaborate with students, share resources, and work with colleagues. Students from K through adults can use this resource. Click here for more info on how Google can be used in education.

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Stay connected with students through iTunes U and Apple hardware.

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Your lessons, your materials all together on iPad. Teachers can create and manage courses and students can experience it all from the iTunes U app.

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Learners of any age can explore the world through NatGeo's website

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Explore National Geographic. A world leader in geography, cartography and exploration.

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Use YouTube's free videos to look up info to share with learners of any age. Children can watch books being read, and older students can find more information on their interests.

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Audiences from elementary children through adult teachers can benefit from the informative and inspirational TED Talks. Topics range beyond anything you can think of, with speakers who are experts in their field or have an inspiring story to tell, and it is all free to watch and share.

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Click on this link to UNH's list of OERs by subject area.

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Boise State University created this in depth description of OERs, which includes links to finding OERs, research on their uses, and support on implementing OERs in your classroom.

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OER Research
"In the fall of 2012, 695 students utilized OER in Mercy's basic math course, their pass rates were compared with those of the fall of 2011, in which no OER were utilized. Researchers found that the pass rates increased from 63.6% in fall 2011 to 68.9% in fall 2012 when all courses were taught with OER. Similarly, students who were enrolled in OER versions of a reading course performed better than their peers who enrolled in the same course using non-OER materials."
https://er.educause.edu/articles/2013/11/adopting-oer-a-case-study-of-crossinstitutional-collaboration-and-innovation

"Hilton and Laman (2012) reported on Houston Community College's adoption of an open textbook for a psychology class. During the fall semester of 2011, 690 students used this open textbook. They stated that "Compared with students using a traditional text in the spring of 2011, students who used the free online textbook scored higher on departmental final examinations, had higher grade point averages in the class and had higher retention rates" (p. 265)." http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1523/2652

"In Phase I, Mercy's retention and success rates increased and textbook costs savings in math were $125,000 in the first year alone. Also, consistent with results from all seven partner institutions, courses showed improved student success in KOCI's first year compared with the prior year's course records."
https://er.educause.edu/articles/2013/11/adopting-oer-a-case-study-of-crossinstitutional-collaboration-and-innovation

In the Results section:
"In the case of Business 110, the differences in withdrawal rates were quite clear; 21 % of students in the commercial textbook condition withdrew from the course while only 6 % of students in the OER condition withdrew from the course."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12528-015-9101-x#

Here is one that is frequently referenced. It creates a new metric "Course throughput rate" which is a combination of pass rate, withdrawal rate, and drop rates:

"While additional methodological rigor will be required in future studies before OER can be said to cause improvements in course throughput rates, the current study demonstrates that OER adoption by faculty is associated with improvements in course throughput rates. This finding merits further exploration."
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2686/3942

Check out this resource from the OpenEd group. They have a section of studies that look at OER and efficacy:
http://openedgroup.org/review
Workshop -- All Access - Locate, Create, and Use OER (ONLINE)
This is an online opportunity available through Blackboard from 1/29/2018 thru 4/1/2018. It could take up to 5 hours to complete, but can be done in stages.
The use of Open Educational Resources (OER) is a great way to reduce textbook costs for students and to increase flexibility in the texts used in a course. This is an online, open-access, self-paced workshop, built to demonstrate how to find, adapt, and develop OER in a step-by-step manner. OER elements are openly licensed for reuse, usually through a Creative Commons license, which allows them to be integrated into most instruction. The course is organized into five areas, each of which represents one facet of the world of OER. Participants are encouraged to complete all areas of the workshop by following the suggested course progression, but each area can also be completed individually. This workshop will be offered from late January to early April, so as to allow a community around this workshop's OER concepts to develop.
Join us
Facilitated by Bob Casper and OER Faculty Mentors. For more information, see the registration form in Orgsync.
2018 Spring Semester * IDEA Shop (ONLINE)
Application deadline * 01/08/2018
OER Institute

Faculty can reduce student textbook costs, increase course enrollment, and improve student learning by adopting OER -freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media useful for teaching and learning. The IDEA Shop will soon be calling for applications from Boise State faculty interested in exploring and implementing OER by participating in the one day 2018 OER Institute to - gain a better understanding of how OER can increase student success, including OER to better meet course objectives, and even begin to curate (create and compile) their own OER.
Join us
For more information and to apply, please go to Call for Applications: OER Institute.
May 10, 2018* Center for Teaching and Learning (ILC313)
UPCOMING Application deadline * 04/15/2018

Faculty Mentor Program for OER
The IDEA Shop is seeking faculty members that are already experienced OER uses, compilers/curators, and/or creators who will work with our team of instructional designers to help establish, grow, and raise awareness of OER as a teaching tool.
Specifically, the OER Faculty Mentors will identify, find, evaluate, and digitally curate openly licensed educational resources (OER) such as textbooks, documentaries, test banks, activities, assignments, and more. In addition to helping other faculty with their OER efforts, the mentors will also, document, organize, and deposit OER artifacts into Blackboard Open Content, where other faculty and students from Boise State and beyond will be able to access these resources as part of their courses.

Opportunities
Upon acceptance and during their term, for the base stipend of $500.00, faculty are required to:

Continue to work with an Instructional Designer to enhance their course's use of OER.

Ensure that the OER text material is current, of the highest quality, and aligns with:

Learning objectives of their course

Licensing and copyright permissions, policies and procedures are followed

Submit three completed OER textbook reviews (within their discipline).

Establish/Create and use a rubric for reviewing OER Texts

Load review and OER Text(s) into the Boise State Channel in Blackboard Open Content for all to see and use.

General support for wider adoption of OER with the university faculty who are not currently using OER.

Conduct research related to use of OER
More studies are needed to show efficacy for both

Practitioners

Administration

Reviewed textbooks exist for many lower level courses, but some faculty may create/compile a new textbook which requires additional work on their part.
Consequently, Faculty Mentors will be encouraged to create/compile one OER textbook within the year for an additional stipend of $500.00.

The created/compiled OER Textbook is just that - openly available to all via Creative Commons licensing methods.

Listed in an open LOR; Blackboard Open Content and any other the author my choose.

Stipends will be awarded to each OER Faculty Mentor at the completion of the requirements of the program (1 school year - Fall to Spring)

Students within OER Faculty Mentor's course(s) and OER Faculty Mentors themselves also agree to take a survey at the beginning and end of course in an effort to assess the program's usefulness and assess areas in which improvements might be made.

Optional Additional Stipend

Submit up to an additional Seven completed OER textbook reviews (within their discipline) to the Boise State Channel in Blackboard Open Content, for all to see and use.
Stipend pays as follows, $100 each, bring the total stipend to $1000.00 (all additional work must receive written approval before beginning).

Submit a completed OER textbook created and/or compiled by the Faculty Mentor (within their discipline)to the Boise State Channel in Blackboard Open Content, for all to see and use.
Stipend pays as follows, for a one-time bonus stipend of $1000.00 bring the total stipend to $2000.00 (all additional work must receive written approval before beginning).

Qualifications
All faculty members are eligible to apply.

The number of faculty accepted will be within the scope of the project's funding of faculty stipends, 2-5 faculty members will be accepted.

Faculty must have completed a prior OER program with mastery of the fundamentals of OER

OER Institute -OR-

OER Faculty Learning Community. Must have a course that is at or near 100% OER adoption rate

Faculty should be willing to share their experience with the larger teaching community

Faculty should be available to assist other faculty participating in OER fundamental programs for consultations and guidance

Join us
For more details, or for information on how to apply, please contact Bob Casper, IDEA Shop, at bobcasper@boisestate.edu or (208) 426-1628.
Fall 2018 and Spring 2019* IDEA Shop (RFH313)
Currently taking application materials for * 18/19 Academic Year (for more information or to send application material use email above)

Student Internship in Digitally Archiving for OER
The IDEA Shop seeks interns who will work with our team of instructional designers to help establish, grow, and raise awareness of a new digital archive of educational resources.
Specifically, the interns will identify, find, evaluate, and digitally curate openly licensed educational resources (OER) such as textbooks, documentaries, test banks, activities, assignments, and more. Interns will document, organize, and deposit OER artifacts into Blackboard Open Content, where faculty and students from Boise State and beyond will be able to access these resources as part of their courses.

Opportunities
Interns who join this project will learn about, or develop skills related to, copyright, licensing, evaluation of educational resources, research, writing, managing digital repositories, project management, and marketing. Furthermore, you will contribute significantly to a growing movement-at both the local and international level-to make college more accessible to students by ensuring students have access to free, high-quality educational materials across the disciplines.
The IDEA Shop strives to maintain a diverse, inclusive, and friendly workplace. If you join our team as an intern, you will have the opportunity to learn from and network with professional staff who have worked in areas as diverse as academic technology, graphic arts and new media, education, instructional design, scholarly research, technical writing, and more.
This is an unpaid internship.

Qualifications
We seek in particular interns from any major or graduate program who, after some initial instruction and with regular check-ins with IDEA Shop staff, can work independently on this important and high-impact project. Interns must be detail-oriented and sufficiently technologically savvy to search the web, use basic office software (Google Drive, Microsoft Word and Excel, and a PDF viewer), and communicate effectively in digital media with other interns, IDEA Shop staff, and Boise State faculty. Upper-division and graduate-level students are especially welcome to apply.

Join us
For more details, or for information on how to apply, please contact Dr. Leslie Madsen, IDEA Shop director and associate professor of history, at lesliemadsen-brooks@boisestate.edu or (208) 426-1700.
Fall 2018 and Spring 2019* IDEA Shop (RFH313)
Currently taking application materials for * Spring 2018 (for more information or to send application material use email above)

Blackboard Open Content:
Blackboard Open Content
This feature allows instructors to upload, license, and share course content in a central location through Blackboard. In addition, and maybe more importantly, instructors can browse free, packaged and free-standing peer-reviewed digital materials for most courses in higher education (and k-12). Not only can these materials be easily found and imported into your Blackboard course site, but, in most cases are simple to use in whole or in part as course objectives direct.

Unlike third-party cloud data storage like Google Drive, Open Content is native to Blackboard and directly integrated at the course level. By hosting and sharing content in Open Content, faculty can manage access to, licenses for, and versions of content without having to leave the Blackboard ecosystem. For instructors who share/update course content across sections or use a variety of learning objects in their courses, Open Content helps streamline processes in course building and updating. Open Content also serves as a great means of getting started with OER.
Turn on Bb Open Content

1. Access your Blackboard course site

2. Select "Customization" under the "Control Panel" in the "Course Management" menu

3. Select "Tool Availability"

4. Check the box to the far right of "Blackboard Open Content"

5. Check the box to the immediate right of "Blackboard Open Content (in Course Tools)"

6. Click Submit

Access Bb Open Content

1. Access your Bb course site

2. Select "Course Content"

3. Under the "Course Content" page title, hover over "Build Content" in the orange horizontal menu

4. Under "Mashups," select "Blackboard Open Content"

5. You will be automatically directed to Blackboard Open Content

For further assistance in making effective use of Blackboard Open Content, contact Jonathan Lashley ( jonathanlashley@boisestate.edu) and/or Bob Casper ( bobcasper@boisestate.edu).

More information for the do it yourselfer may be available at the link below.
https://oit.boisestate.edu/blackboard/enable-blackboard-open-content/

Multidisciplinary, General Repositories:
Boise State Encyclopedia of Rich Media Resources
Initially developed by Boise State faculty participating in the e-Learning Quality Improvement Program (eQIP)-a seminar in course design offered by the IDEA Shop and eCampus-the Encyclopedia consists of individual entries devoted to a single repository of rich media and other learning objects, accompanied by a review of the repository by the faculty member who contributed the entry. Boise State faculty are encouraged to contribute new entries and edit or revise existing ones. NOTE: You must be logged in to your Boise State account to view this site.
https://sites.google.com/a/boisestate.edu/richmediapedia/

Khan Academy
A large and growing collection of free video tutorials, with an emphasis on K-12 math but also offering science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics and topics in the humanities. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer. http://www.khanacademy.org

OER Commons
OER Commons helps educators, students, and lifelong learners find Open Educational Resources through a single point of access from which they can search, browse, and evaluate resources in OER Common's growing collection of 50,000 high-quality OER.

TED (Ideas Worth Sharing)
TED Talk and ED.TED are free, moderated collection of speeches on a variety of topics by notable and unknown speakers. Also includes musical and other performances. TED Talks recordings are owned by TED, provided on TED.com and any other site that we manage or license to. Unless otherwise indicated on the website, audio and video files, transcripts and/or information about a speaker, are licensed via Creative Commons license (CC BY - NC - ND 4.0 International), which means that certain TED Content may be used for personal and/or educational purposes as long as the license terms and TED Talks Usage Policy are followed.
https://ed.ted.com/
http://www.ted.com

YouTube
User-created video content on every subject known to man. Increasingly, videos useful for education can be found here. You might also check out http://www.teachertube.com, although this tends to be mostly appropriate to the K-12 sector.
http://www.youtube.com/
State University of New York OER Services
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
Public health - Discipline-Specific Repositories: http://www.oerconsortium.org/find-oer/ https://textbooks.opensuny.org/ https://www.cdc.gov/

Open Educational Resources (OER) for Public Health
This web page has aggregated multiple sources of OER for public health in various categories including: General Public Health, Behavioral and Community Health, Environmental Health, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Family Science, Health Services Administration, Kinesiology.
https://sph.umd.edu/content/open-educational-resources-oer-public-health

sections of the website. Centers for Disease Control
Because it is a government agency, the vast majority of materials produced by the CDC are in the public domain, which means you can use them however you want, including excerpting sections, revising them, and remixing them with other resources. See especially the publications , CDC Learning Connection , and Public Health Image Library CDC copyright info:

https://www.nih.gov/
sections of the website. National Institutes for Health
Because it is a government agency, the vast majority of materials produced by the NIH are in the public domain, which means you can use them however you want, including excerpting sections, revising them, and remixing them with other resources. See especially the Research and Training , Health Information , and Community Resources NIH copyright info:

Most of the information on our site is in the public domain and can be used without charge or restriction. Generally, copyrighted materials will include a copyright statement. If in doubt, please write to the contact point for that site. ( https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/frequently-asked-questions# Go to NIH Website → Copyright

NYU has compiled this list of resources, including open courses, textbooks, databases, and articles. Health (Nursing, Medicine, Allied Health): Open Educational Resources for the Health Professions

http://guides.nyu.edu/health/oer

Open Michigan Public Health Resources
Resources linked to from this site include course materials, including syllabi, lectures, handouts, and readings from previously created courses in Health Informatics, Measuring Health Disparities, Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses and more.
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/
National Library of Medicine
A wide variety of free and open resources are available at this site; some are targeted at researchers and others at health care consumers. See especially the resources in the Health Info and Online Exhibitions and Digital Projects , as well as PubMed Central NLM copyright info:
https://www.hhs.gov/Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts - Discipline-Specific Repositories:
Standard OER Course Evaluation Questions The Emergence of Public Health Open Educational Resources

" Government information at NLM Web sites is in the public domain. Public domain information may be freely distributed and copied, but it is requested that in any subsequent use the National Library of Medicine (NLM) be given appropriate acknowledgment. When using NLM Web sites, you may encounter documents, illustrations, photographs, or other information resources contributed or licensed by private individuals, companies, or organizations that may be protected by U.S. and foreign copyright laws. Transmission or reproduction of protected items beyond that allowed by as defined in the copyright laws requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Specific NLM Web sites containing protected information provide additional notification of conditions associated with its use." ( https://www.nlm.nih.gov/copyright.html )

, which allows you to pull updated HHS content directly into your own website. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The HHS website offers a variety of introductory, consumer-facing content. See especially the sections on Public Health and Safety , Prevention and Wellness , Image Galleries (includes links to images from the CDC and the NIH as well), and HHS Research . HHS also offers syndication
NLM copyright info:

Digital Scriptorium
The Digital Scriptorium is a growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. It bridges the gap between a diverse user community and the limited resources of libraries by means of sample imaging and extensive rather than intensive cataloging. Designed for use by paleographers, codicologists, art historians, textual scholars and other researchers.
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/digitalscriptorium/

In an effort to bring more standardization to OER research we are suggesting standard OER questions to ask students in the course evaluation at the end of each semester. These questions are intended to measure four indicators of how students regard OER, using the COUP framework. The COUP framework isolates four key considerations about low-/no-cost resources: Cost, Outcomes, Use, and Perception. As students typically don't respond well to open-ended questions. We would suggest the use the standard 5-point Likert scale.

Here are the 4 questions other instructors have used in previous semesters:

Cost:
No-cost, low-cost textbooks contribute to my financial ability to complete my overall academic goals.

Outcomes:
No-cost, low-cost textbooks that support my ability to succeed in this course.

Use:
No-cost, low-cost textbooks used in this course helps me to complete more readings, assignments, and other coursework than traditionally purchased textbooks.

Perception:
No-cost, low-cost textbooks for this course are just as good or better than traditionally purchased textbooks.

You may find instructions on how to add your own questions to your course evaluations, provided from Institutional Research, by going to the Faculty Course Eval page and clicking on Add Your Own Instructor Questions.

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Open Educational Resources (OER) - IDEA Shop

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OER Research "In the fall of 2012, 695 students utilized OER in Mercy's basic math course, their pass rates were compared with those of the fall of 2011, in which no OER were utilized. Researchers found that the pass rates increased from 63.6% in fall 2011 to 68.9% in fall 2012 when all courses were taught with OER.

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Check out this quick guide from UNH on evaluating the quality of online resources.

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Evaluating OERs: Introduction to Open Educational Resources (self-paced)

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OER (Open Educational Resources) Introduction

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Open Education Resources (OERs) are mostly online, free-to-access resources for teachers, school leaders, and students to enhance their work and learning. Typically free of charge, OERs have limited or no copyright issues, and encourage educators to use them, change them, and share freely to promote growth in schools everywhere. They can come in a range of topics and intended uses: lesson plans, units, elementary through high school level print-out materials for activities, professional development courses, and even full university courses.

With trends in education like flexible seating, Genius Hour, play-based instruction, Academic Choice, and menu-style Professional Development, the open nature of OERs make it possible for educators and students to explore and learn without the obstacles of high costs or strict terms of use that would otherwise prevent high quality material from reaching learners. Teachers can download resources and change them given their students' needs, and then re-upload their new creations to share with other educators. Students can find materials they want to learn for their own project. Educators can look for professional development resources to improve their craft. OERs are an important addition to education today because their free and open sources break down the walls of the classroom and let our students know that they have the right to learn whatever they are passionate about.

Use these resources to explore OERs, support student learning, and promote your own professional development.