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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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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.

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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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The overarching goal of our Open Education strategy is to strengthen every student's learning experiences by the effective use of open educational resources and practices. To do that, we prioritize developing effective pedagogy and practice along with content, building capacity for education systems to implement OER, and supporting a field that is responsive to diverse educators and learners.

To make these strategic priorities concrete, we focus on three different sets of partners who can benefit from our work in open education. The first two below together account for approximately 75% of our grant dollars.

1. Educators and students: We need to make sure that teachers understand how to take advantage of the flexibility of openly licensed resources and are equipped with the knowledge and tools to customize materials for different students.

2. Education systems: Implementing and sustaining OER depends on policy decisions surrounding several issues, including the adoption and procurement of materials, incentives for educators to use and share materials, and teachers' access to appropriate professional learning opportunities. Collaborating on these issues with systems leaders is essential to our ability to implement OER within and across schools.

3. OER field: Mindful that momentum in the field is global in nature, we need to nurture a diverse and inclusive ecosystem that shares open content, practices, and resources. Our field-building efforts include lines of work focused on increasing grantee collaboration; promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion; building research capacity; and attracting new funding for open education.

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Since its support for open educational resources (OER) began in 2002, our foundation's goal has always been to equalize access to knowledge by making high quality educational materials and opportunities more broadly available. OER - freely licensed, remixable learning resources - offer a promising solution to the perennial challenge of delivering high levels of student...

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A Review of the Effectiveness & Perceptions of Open Educational Resources As Compared to Textbooks

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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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https://www.tonybates.ca/2015/02/16/making-sense-of-open-educational-resources/

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Educational Resources in the U.S. Higher Education, 2017