Washington OER Hub Information
(View Complete Item Description)One-page Washington OER Hub information and contacts.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
All resources in Washington OER
Benefits of Open Educational Resources
(View Complete Item Description)Brief document targeted to educators and school districts on the benefits of OER.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Washington OER Hub - User Guide
(View Complete Item Description)Getting started information for users of the Washington OER Hub.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Selecting and Reviewing OER for District Adoption
(View Complete Item Description)This resource provides guidance for school districts when considering OER for adoption as well as currently available full-course openly licensed resources to consider.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Washington OER Hub Quality Review Rubric
(View Complete Item Description)This rubric is designed to be adapted for any content area. Educators may use it to review supplemental lessons or units on the Washington OER Hub and/or being used in the classroom. It is also intended to inform the development of new lessons and units.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
District and State Leaders Discuss Lessons Learned from OER Implementation
(View Complete Item Description)ISTE and New America interviewed district and state leaders, who shared key takeaways from their experiences with using PreK-12 open educational resources (OER).
Material Type: Case Study, Teaching/Learning Strategy
OER Key Considerations for Districts
(View Complete Item Description)This is a detailed document written for district superintendents, assistant superintendents, curriculum directors, and technology directors who are investigating the implementation/adoption of OER. Download the formatted documents or use the online version.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
What is OER?
(View Complete Item Description)Brief video describing Open Educational Resources (OER) and their associated copyrights and permissions. Generally Open Educational Resources have terms of use that allow for permissions that are known as the "Five Rs:" Reuse, Remix, Revise, Retain, and Redistribute.
Material Type: Lecture
Why OER?
(View Complete Item Description)A brief video where OER experts give their reasons for working in the field of Open Educational Resources. Primary reasons include empowering teachers, equalizing access to education, reducing teachers' worries about copyright, reducing educational costs, and facilitating the open flow of information.
Material Type: Lecture
What is an open license and how does it work?
(View Complete Item Description)Brief video describing licensing and permissions associated with Open Educational Resources (OER), including various Creative Commons licenses. These licenses give content creators a standardized way to share their resources with other educators around the world.
Material Type: Lecture
How can OER help educators?
(View Complete Item Description)Brief video describing the benefits that using OER can have for educators. OER empowers teachers to make decisions about the best curriculum for their specific needs, save money and empower students as educational content creators.
Material Type: Lecture
What does the research say about OER?
(View Complete Item Description)Brief video explaining the benefits of using Open Educational Resources (OER) as opposed to commercial resources. Research shows that students perform as well or better when using OER.
Material Type: Lecture
Remix
Full Course OER Options for District Consideration
(View Complete Item Description)This resource provides guidance for school districts when considering OER for adoption as well as currently available full-course openly licensed resources to consider.
The Role of School Librarians in OER Curation: A Framework to Guide Practice
(View Complete Item Description)This document is an evidence-based guide that outlines the practical and policy supports needed to enable K-12 school librarians to take on leadership roles around OER, and to support OER curation efforts by librarians and all educators. This guide is based on a study led by ISKME (iskme.org) in collaboration with Florida State University's School of Information. The study is titled “Exploring OER Curation and the Role of School Librarians". ISKME designs guides and toolkits that help educators navigate and implement new teaching and learning practices. Grounded in research, our evidence-based guides and toolkits help articulate what actually works in real education settings—and are tailored to the unique professional learning needs of our clients and their stakeholders. The study was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (www.imls.gov), under grant number LG-86-17-0035-17. The findings and recommendations expressed in this document do not necessarily represent those of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Material Type: Case Study, Teaching/Learning Strategy
EQuIP Evaluation and Alignment Tool
(View Complete Item Description)Learn how to use OER Commons Digital Version of the EQuIP Rubric Alignment and Evaluation Tool to align appropriate resources to the Common Core State Standards, and to evaluate resources against certain aspects of quality.
Material Type: Interactive
Screening for Biased Content in Instructional Materials
(View Complete Item Description)The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction is releasing this model tool for screening for biased content to Washington districts in the hope that it will provide suggestions and examples for review teams during the instructional materials selection and adoption process.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
OER Passport Training Program
(View Complete Item Description)OER Passport is a professional development program that takes educators through the process of understanding, finding, developing and sharing Open Educational Resources. This course trains teachers and students on OER use, reuse, licensing, creation, and sharing by completing the following tasks. The first three tasks lay a solid foundation and provide teachers with the tools to complete the last three tasks which focus on the use, reuse, production, and innovative teaching practices. Participants can complete the tasks online. There are also files to print/create physical copies of OER Passports that can be used in an offline environment.
Material Type: Reading
Teachers as Content & Knowledge Creators: Understanding Creative Commons, OER, and Visual Literacy to Empower Diverse Voices
(View Complete Item Description)This module was created in response to an observed need by BranchED and the module authors for efforts to increase the recognition, adaptation, and use of open educational resources (OER) among pre- and in-service teachers and the faculty who work in educator preparation programs. The module's purpose is to position teacher educators, teacher candidates and in-service teachers as empowered content creators. By explicitly teaching educators about content that has been licensed for re-use and informing them about their range of options for making their own works available to others, they will gain agency and can make inclusive and equity-minded decisions about curriculum content. The module provides instructional materials, resources, and activities about copyright, fair use, public domain, OER, and visual literacy to provide users with a framework for selecting, modifying, and developing curriculum materials.
Material Type: Module