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OER can be used by anyone. It is equitable and inclusive. It is also a world wide tool and others can contribute.

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OER can be used as an additional resource to help student study for a quiz or to go practice math facts.

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Gives the user the ability to access, re-use, re-purpose, adapt and redistribute.

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https://www.unesco.org/en/communication-information/open-solutions/open-educational-resources

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Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EImihZVE0sA

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Open Educational Resources concept: What is an OER?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGQ_7K35ysA

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What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?

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https://www.readingrockets.org/article/universal-design-learning-udl-what-you-need-know

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Universal Design for Learning (UDL): What You Need to Know

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Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a way of thinking about teaching and learning that helps give all students an equal opportunity to succeed. This approach offers flexibility in the ways students access material, engage with it and show what they know.

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Open Courseware.

Learning Modules.

Open Textbooks.

Streaming Videos.

Open Access Journals.

Online Tutorials.

Digital Learning Objects.

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https://www.oercommons.org/

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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.

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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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https://udlguidelines.cast.org/

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The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. Learn more about the Universal Design for Learning framework from CAST. The UDL Guidelines can be used by educators, curriculum developers, researchers, parents, and anyone else who wants to implement the UDL framework in a learning environment. These guidelines offer a set of concrete suggestions that can be applied to any discipline or domain to ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.

Reenvisioning the UDL Guidelines

Because the UDL Guidelines are meant to be informed by feedback from the field as well as new research, they have been updated several times in the past. We are in the process of updating the Guidelines once again in our UDL Rising to Equity initiative.

This update will focus specifically on addressing systemic barriers that result in inequitable learning opportunities and outcomes. CAST aims to develop a transparent, inclusive, and community-driven process. If you are interested in collaborating and staying updated on our progress, we invite you to complete a brief survey.

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The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. Learn more about the Universal Design for Learning framework from CAST. The UDL Guidelines can be used by educators, curriculum developers, researchers, parents, and anyone else who wants to implement the UDL framework in a learning environment. These guidelines offer a set of concrete suggestions that can be applied to any discipline or domain to ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.

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Teachers should care about UDL and OER because it can be used to help introduce subject matter in various ways. As a teacher every year you might be teaching the same subject matter. UDL and OER can help with different strategy to help explain the material. It can also help with introducing subject matter in different forms. They offer teachers a different way of being able to introduce the same subject matter to new students.

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I plan to use UDL and OER in my role as an educator on an everyday basis. I would create a lessons or activities that would include everyone. I would also demonstrate step by step what is expected and what the end result should be of the activity. I would use different ways of explaining the lesson or activity so that it can reach and be understood by all my students. This would encourage my students to feel empowered to learn and feel they can take on the task more easily.

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Some UDL examples are a Podcast or making a video.

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A benefit to using UDL is it provides a reduction in the need for lesson planning and the time required to arrange individual learning and assessment accommodations. It is also a proactive approach for every learner.

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Using UDL is meant to include all students and for all students to learn. This means the teacher is teaching to every student in the class.

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Universal Design for Learning can be descried as a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.

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They are accessible to all. They also eliminate barriers and give everyone a chance to learn and use free resources. They encompass equity and inclusivity for all.

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UDL embodies a flexible, researched based planning framework that guides teachers instructional decision making.

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OER is about learning, teaching, and researching materials that come in many formats and mediums that reside in the public domain. These teaching and research materials can be free or at little to no cost and can be used by anyone. OER removes price barriers, saving students money and making it possible for everyone to have their own copy of required course materials from the first day of class.