Last week we introduced the topic of OER, Open Education Resources, based on Education Week’s report, Extending the Digital Reach. The online education resource, Edutopia provides an “OER Resource Roundup” to help us navigate through this maze of technological information. OER is part of a global movement to make content - teaching, learning, and research resources - available under open licenses. This means the content would be free for people to reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute. This allows educators to legally harness the full power the Internet has to offer for our students and classrooms.
Watch this short video that explains “Why Open Education Matters”.
OER, and the open sharing of these resources, has great potential to give teachers support, encouragement, enable collaboration, and promote best practices.
OER Commons, is a nonprofit designed to support and build a knowledge base for teachers as they use Open Education Resources. The OER Commons website offers resources for curriculum alignment, quality evaluation, social bookmarking, tagging, rating, and reviewing.
What are some example of OER?
Edutopia’s Resource Roundup also provides a great “jumping off” point for teachers to begin looking for OER materials. This site provides a variety of links categorized for easy searching. And, of course, don’t forget to check out the resources located in your Pepper Resource Library. If you are looking for OER, or just interested in finding out more, chances are other Pepper teachers are too. Reach out to your Pepper Learning Community to find out how other educators are using OER.
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