OER: Open Education Resources
The Index of Open Educational Resources -(K-12) Open Educational Resources come in many shapes and sizes. This partial list of sources introduces the scope of OER and the organizations cultivating its increasingly vital role in opening higher education up to the greatest number of people worldwide.
Open Education Resources - (k-12) This network brings together 44,129 OER tools for sharing curriculum with the world and news and training on the brave new world of open education! This a must visit for all grades and interest since it taps into many OER resources.
My OER - Wonderful place combining OER resources from some amazing people in the state of South Dakota. You will find all grade levels and subjects.
OpenEd - OpenEd.io is the largest K-12 educational resource library, offering over one million free assessments, homework assignments, videos, games and lesson plans for every Common Core Math, Language Arts, Literacy and Next Generation Science standard. OpenEd makes it easy for teachers find and assign resources to their class by providing pre-built lesson plans (list of videos, assessments and homework) for every grade and subject. Teachers can modify these lesson plans or create their own
Sophia - .The people at Sophia know that teachers work hard to provide wonderful education experiences for their students. That's why they offer the tools, technology and inspiration you need to keep teachers' classes and your career vibrant and exciting.. From creative ways to enhance your online courses and flipped classroom/tablet certification programs to Common Core-aligned content and supportive peer forums, Sophia offers a wealth of free resources to help you stay on top of, and get the most out of, online teaching.
North Carolina Lesson Plans (k-12)- LEARN NC’s lesson plans span the wide range of curriculum areas for every grade from K to 12. Our collection includes the best instructional plans created by North Carolina educators as well as high-quality materials from state and national partners.
Curriki - (k-12) What happens when classroom teachers from every country in the world take part in a global community of sharing curriculum and best practices? Teachers are empowered to create extraordinary learning experiences for their students. Barriers to equal access to education begin to lift—geography and politics become immaterial. And the economy benefits from a highly educated population. That’s the basis of Curriki, a nonprofit K-12 global community for teachers, students, and parents to create, share, and find free learning resources that enable true personalized learning.They believe free and equal access to the best curriculum materials is possible and Curriki is leading the way
Connexions - (K-12) This a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute:
Google In Education - (K-12) This is a place for lessons that work with many of the Google Tools. A great place for ideas at all grade levels.
Gooru - Gooru is a free personalized learning solution that enables teachers to find, remix, and share collections of web resources on any K-12 topic. With millions of open multimedia resources and quiz questions, Gooru organizes all online learning content and connects a community of educators and learners to meet students’ unique needs.Gooru is open-source and free.
SmartHistory -(K-12) Smarthistory at Khan Academy is the leading open educational resource for art history. They make high-quality introductory art history content freely available to anyone, anywhere. Smarthistory is a platform for the discipline where art historians contribute in their areas of expertise and learners come from across the globe. We offer nearly 500 videos and these are being translated into dozens of languages.
Khan Academy - (K-12) Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.
Concord Consortium - (2-12) Help your students learn with hundreds of interactive, research-based resources covering a huge variety of science, engineering, and math topics. Many activities let the teacher see assessment results after student completion of an activity, making alignment with lessons quick and easy.
Moodle Share - (2-12)MoodleShare is a community of Moodlers sharing their Moodles, Moodle Sites, and Moodle Lessons.
Moodle Exchange -(2-12) Shares Moodle courses and other content useful for Moodle teachers.
FreeReading (pk-3) is a free, high-quality, open-source reading program addressing literacy development for grades K-3. Leveraging the collective wisdom of researchers, teachers, reading coaches, and other education and industry professionals, FreeReading provides a high-quality, cost-effective alternative to static materials. By establishing a foundation of hundreds of research-based lessons and materials that users can download and use for free, FreeReading has created the framework for intervention programs supporting K-6 literacy. The collective wisdom within FreeReading is invaluable and can be more beneficial than any one reading program.
WikiJunior - (1-6) The aim of this project is to produce age-appropriate non-fiction books for children from birth to age 12. These books are richly illustrated with photographs, diagrams, sketches, and original drawings. Wikijunior books are produced by a worldwide community of writers, teachers, students, and young people all working together. The books present factual information that is verifiable. You are invited to join in and write, edit, and rewrite each module and book to improve its content. Our books are distributed free of charge under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
Teaching Ideas Library - (K-8_ The Teaching Ideas Library contains ideas and resources for popular children's books. You will find activities, videos, and so much more.
The Literature Network - (6-12) They offer a searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. Currently there are over 3000 full books and over 4000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. The quotations database has over 8500 quotes.
CK12.org - More than 100,000 teacher-created digital textbooks are now available online through the CK-12 Foundation’s free STEM content and tools platform.The 106,000 digital texts, or FlexBooks, come from the roughly 30,000 schools using CK-12’s free and open digital resources. CK-12 is launching two new tools in addition to its new content. One is a new physics simulation module that uses real-world interactivity to increase student engagement. Students relate often-abstract concepts to real-world examples to increase learning. The second is called PLIX (Play, Learning, Interact, and eXplore), and it gives students an interactive and immersive experience that helps them learn by doing..Read more >Watch video >
EdTED - TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within TED-Ed’s growing library of lessons, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED’s, and easily create a customized lesson around the video.
Big History Project - The Big History Project (BHP) is a joint effort between teachers, scholars, scientists, and their supporters. It is a multi-disciplinary approach to knowledge for learners around the world. In addition to developing a full curriculum for high school students, this course is designed for curious members of the public who are seeking answers to big questions about the history of our Universe and the origin of our species.
Wisconsin Online Learning Objects - (6-12) Learning objects add flexibility to the teaching and learning experience. Faculty use learning objects when teaching a basic concept, applying concepts in "real world" applications, checking and testing mastery, providing simulation, or giving remedial instruction.
Vision Learning - (6-12) This organization has developed a set of peer-reviewed materials for learning science including modular readings, interactive multimedia, and a glossary - all available for free on the web in both English and Spanish. In the readings, they emphasize science as a process, not just a collection of facts. These resources can be used individually by anyone and can also be combined and customized within online classrooms by teachers.
SAS Curriculum Pathways - (6-12) Year after year, SAS Curriculum Pathways earns awards for educational technologies and, more importantly, earn the support of teachers, students, and parents. The approach is innovative, but the goals are traditional. Teachers, developers, designers, and other specialists clarify content in the core disciplines. SACS targets content difficult to convey with conventional methods—topics where doing and seeing provide information and encourage insights in ways that textbooks cannot. The products make learning more profound and efficient, not simply more entertaining. Audio, visual, and interactive components all reinforce the educational objectives identified by teachers
Georgia Virtual - (6-12) The content available on our Shared Resources Website is available for anyone to view. Courses are divided into modules and are aligned with the Georgia Performance Standards.
Open Source Physics Project - (6-12) Wide range of curriculum resources that involve and engage students in physics, computation, and computer modeling.
Open Tapestry - (7-12) Open Tapestry is all about discovering, adapting, and sharing learning resources, whether you're a teacher, an instructor, a professor, a corporate trainer, a learner, or just a curious mind!
Hippocampus - (7-12) This is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.
NROC - (7-12) The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) is a growing library of high-quality online course content for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement*. This has been paid for in the state of Indiana by the DOE.
MERLOT - (9-12) This site states a mission of putting Educational Innovations Into Practice. Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues. Be recognized for your contributions to quality education.
Open High School Of Utah - (9-12) The Open High School of Utah is a public charter school designed to meet the needs of the 21st century student. As an online school, it combine state of the art curriculum with strategic one-on-one instruction. The technology sets it apart. It is data-driven, providing real time information that instantaneously tracks the student and their performance. Unique to OHSU is their commitment to share the curriculum we have developed as an open educational resource.
Open Course Library - (9-12) A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs making it easy to access, browse and download.
Textbook Revolution -(9-12) A student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors.
Community College Consortium for OER - (9-12) The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) is a joint effort by individual community colleges, regional and statewide consortia, the Open Courseware Consortium, the American Association for Community Colleges, the League for Innovation in the Community Colleges, and many other educational partners to develop and use open educational resources, open textbooks, and open courseware to expand access to higher education and improve teaching and learning.
Flat World Knowledge - (9-12) Written by the industry's top authors, our textbooks are helping improve teaching and learning at more than 2,500 leading colleges and universities worldwide.
Open Professionals Education Network - Reusing existing Open Educational Resources (OER) can save significant time and effort. The OPEN partners invest up-front time finding OER to reuse rather than starting development of new educational resources right away. A significant benefit of OER is that they provide source material to build your development efforts around. No need to invest development effort in creating something that already exists.
Wikipedia - Don't forget a great place for content across the globe. It is a great starting place for research. One can even take articles out and publish their own book. Check out this page to learn more about creating your own classroom book.
Simple English Wikipedia - The Simple English Wikipedia is for everyone! That includes children and adults who are learning English or just anyone wanting an article with a more understandable vocabulary. This can be important in areas that use those big words. There are 120,740 articles on the Simple English Wikipedia
Share My Lesson - Share My Lesson is a place where educators can come together to create and share their very best teaching resources. Developed by teachers for teachers, this free platform gives access to high-quality teaching resources and provides an online community where teachers can collaborate with, encourage and inspire each other
Learn Zillion - Why recreate the wheel? This website has thousands of free lessons with great visuals, and conceptual explanations that both kids and adults can understand It is a great way to support both individualized and personalized instruction. Use LearnZillion to identify what students understand, and to provide challenge or support in class, or at home.
Thunderbolt Kids - Many times it is in the secondary school where learners are grappling with science and maths concepts. But, many of the misconceptions and problems that are evident at this level, often have their roots in the primary school phase. To attempt to improve the STEM subjects in South Africa, the people at Siyavula and the Sasol Inzalo Foundation actually need to start at the beginning and secure a strong foundation on which learners can build their future Science and Technology careers.
Common Core Explorer - Graphite from Common Sense Media hits another one out of the park with this amazing search engine of great programs and apps. Some are free and some are paid... but they are all worth a look. Remember you do not have to be a Common Core State to benefit.
Better Lesson - Over 10,000 complete Common Core-aligned lessons from our 130 Master Teachers.Introducing a brand new, free resource from the Better Lesson team featuring the highest quality Common Core-aligned lessons created through our Master Teacher Project.You are sure to benefit. from great resources provided here. Check out the science lessons that are geared toward Next Gen Science.
Engage New York - This is a well unpacked and mapped curriculum complete with activities from the state of New York. It covers the CCSS standards for LA and Math.
Illustrative Math - Illustrative Mathematics is a discerning community of educators dedicated to the coherent learning of mathematics. It was founded in 2011 at the University of Arizona, and has operated since 2013 as an independent 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. This organization shares carefully vetted resources for teachers and teacher leaders to give our children an understanding of mathematics and skill in using it. They also provide expert guidance to states, districts, curriculum writers, and assessment writers working to improve mathematics education.
Open Education Resources - (k-12) This network brings together 44,129 OER tools for sharing curriculum with the world and news and training on the brave new world of open education! This a must visit for all grades and interest since it taps into many OER resources.
My OER - Wonderful place combining OER resources from some amazing people in the state of South Dakota. You will find all grade levels and subjects.
OpenEd - OpenEd.io is the largest K-12 educational resource library, offering over one million free assessments, homework assignments, videos, games and lesson plans for every Common Core Math, Language Arts, Literacy and Next Generation Science standard. OpenEd makes it easy for teachers find and assign resources to their class by providing pre-built lesson plans (list of videos, assessments and homework) for every grade and subject. Teachers can modify these lesson plans or create their own
Sophia - .The people at Sophia know that teachers work hard to provide wonderful education experiences for their students. That's why they offer the tools, technology and inspiration you need to keep teachers' classes and your career vibrant and exciting.. From creative ways to enhance your online courses and flipped classroom/tablet certification programs to Common Core-aligned content and supportive peer forums, Sophia offers a wealth of free resources to help you stay on top of, and get the most out of, online teaching.
North Carolina Lesson Plans (k-12)- LEARN NC’s lesson plans span the wide range of curriculum areas for every grade from K to 12. Our collection includes the best instructional plans created by North Carolina educators as well as high-quality materials from state and national partners.
Curriki - (k-12) What happens when classroom teachers from every country in the world take part in a global community of sharing curriculum and best practices? Teachers are empowered to create extraordinary learning experiences for their students. Barriers to equal access to education begin to lift—geography and politics become immaterial. And the economy benefits from a highly educated population. That’s the basis of Curriki, a nonprofit K-12 global community for teachers, students, and parents to create, share, and find free learning resources that enable true personalized learning.They believe free and equal access to the best curriculum materials is possible and Curriki is leading the way
Connexions - (K-12) This a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute:
- authors create and collaborate
- instructors rapidly build and share custom collections
- learners find and explore content
Google In Education - (K-12) This is a place for lessons that work with many of the Google Tools. A great place for ideas at all grade levels.
Gooru - Gooru is a free personalized learning solution that enables teachers to find, remix, and share collections of web resources on any K-12 topic. With millions of open multimedia resources and quiz questions, Gooru organizes all online learning content and connects a community of educators and learners to meet students’ unique needs.Gooru is open-source and free.
SmartHistory -(K-12) Smarthistory at Khan Academy is the leading open educational resource for art history. They make high-quality introductory art history content freely available to anyone, anywhere. Smarthistory is a platform for the discipline where art historians contribute in their areas of expertise and learners come from across the globe. We offer nearly 500 videos and these are being translated into dozens of languages.
Khan Academy - (K-12) Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.
Concord Consortium - (2-12) Help your students learn with hundreds of interactive, research-based resources covering a huge variety of science, engineering, and math topics. Many activities let the teacher see assessment results after student completion of an activity, making alignment with lessons quick and easy.
Moodle Share - (2-12)MoodleShare is a community of Moodlers sharing their Moodles, Moodle Sites, and Moodle Lessons.
Moodle Exchange -(2-12) Shares Moodle courses and other content useful for Moodle teachers.
FreeReading (pk-3) is a free, high-quality, open-source reading program addressing literacy development for grades K-3. Leveraging the collective wisdom of researchers, teachers, reading coaches, and other education and industry professionals, FreeReading provides a high-quality, cost-effective alternative to static materials. By establishing a foundation of hundreds of research-based lessons and materials that users can download and use for free, FreeReading has created the framework for intervention programs supporting K-6 literacy. The collective wisdom within FreeReading is invaluable and can be more beneficial than any one reading program.
WikiJunior - (1-6) The aim of this project is to produce age-appropriate non-fiction books for children from birth to age 12. These books are richly illustrated with photographs, diagrams, sketches, and original drawings. Wikijunior books are produced by a worldwide community of writers, teachers, students, and young people all working together. The books present factual information that is verifiable. You are invited to join in and write, edit, and rewrite each module and book to improve its content. Our books are distributed free of charge under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
Teaching Ideas Library - (K-8_ The Teaching Ideas Library contains ideas and resources for popular children's books. You will find activities, videos, and so much more.
The Literature Network - (6-12) They offer a searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. Currently there are over 3000 full books and over 4000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. The quotations database has over 8500 quotes.
CK12.org - More than 100,000 teacher-created digital textbooks are now available online through the CK-12 Foundation’s free STEM content and tools platform.The 106,000 digital texts, or FlexBooks, come from the roughly 30,000 schools using CK-12’s free and open digital resources. CK-12 is launching two new tools in addition to its new content. One is a new physics simulation module that uses real-world interactivity to increase student engagement. Students relate often-abstract concepts to real-world examples to increase learning. The second is called PLIX (Play, Learning, Interact, and eXplore), and it gives students an interactive and immersive experience that helps them learn by doing..Read more >Watch video >
EdTED - TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within TED-Ed’s growing library of lessons, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED’s, and easily create a customized lesson around the video.
Big History Project - The Big History Project (BHP) is a joint effort between teachers, scholars, scientists, and their supporters. It is a multi-disciplinary approach to knowledge for learners around the world. In addition to developing a full curriculum for high school students, this course is designed for curious members of the public who are seeking answers to big questions about the history of our Universe and the origin of our species.
Wisconsin Online Learning Objects - (6-12) Learning objects add flexibility to the teaching and learning experience. Faculty use learning objects when teaching a basic concept, applying concepts in "real world" applications, checking and testing mastery, providing simulation, or giving remedial instruction.
Vision Learning - (6-12) This organization has developed a set of peer-reviewed materials for learning science including modular readings, interactive multimedia, and a glossary - all available for free on the web in both English and Spanish. In the readings, they emphasize science as a process, not just a collection of facts. These resources can be used individually by anyone and can also be combined and customized within online classrooms by teachers.
SAS Curriculum Pathways - (6-12) Year after year, SAS Curriculum Pathways earns awards for educational technologies and, more importantly, earn the support of teachers, students, and parents. The approach is innovative, but the goals are traditional. Teachers, developers, designers, and other specialists clarify content in the core disciplines. SACS targets content difficult to convey with conventional methods—topics where doing and seeing provide information and encourage insights in ways that textbooks cannot. The products make learning more profound and efficient, not simply more entertaining. Audio, visual, and interactive components all reinforce the educational objectives identified by teachers
Georgia Virtual - (6-12) The content available on our Shared Resources Website is available for anyone to view. Courses are divided into modules and are aligned with the Georgia Performance Standards.
Open Source Physics Project - (6-12) Wide range of curriculum resources that involve and engage students in physics, computation, and computer modeling.
Open Tapestry - (7-12) Open Tapestry is all about discovering, adapting, and sharing learning resources, whether you're a teacher, an instructor, a professor, a corporate trainer, a learner, or just a curious mind!
Hippocampus - (7-12) This is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.
NROC - (7-12) The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) is a growing library of high-quality online course content for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement*. This has been paid for in the state of Indiana by the DOE.
MERLOT - (9-12) This site states a mission of putting Educational Innovations Into Practice. Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues. Be recognized for your contributions to quality education.
Open High School Of Utah - (9-12) The Open High School of Utah is a public charter school designed to meet the needs of the 21st century student. As an online school, it combine state of the art curriculum with strategic one-on-one instruction. The technology sets it apart. It is data-driven, providing real time information that instantaneously tracks the student and their performance. Unique to OHSU is their commitment to share the curriculum we have developed as an open educational resource.
Open Course Library - (9-12) A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs making it easy to access, browse and download.
Textbook Revolution -(9-12) A student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors.
Community College Consortium for OER - (9-12) The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) is a joint effort by individual community colleges, regional and statewide consortia, the Open Courseware Consortium, the American Association for Community Colleges, the League for Innovation in the Community Colleges, and many other educational partners to develop and use open educational resources, open textbooks, and open courseware to expand access to higher education and improve teaching and learning.
Flat World Knowledge - (9-12) Written by the industry's top authors, our textbooks are helping improve teaching and learning at more than 2,500 leading colleges and universities worldwide.
Open Professionals Education Network - Reusing existing Open Educational Resources (OER) can save significant time and effort. The OPEN partners invest up-front time finding OER to reuse rather than starting development of new educational resources right away. A significant benefit of OER is that they provide source material to build your development efforts around. No need to invest development effort in creating something that already exists.
Wikipedia - Don't forget a great place for content across the globe. It is a great starting place for research. One can even take articles out and publish their own book. Check out this page to learn more about creating your own classroom book.
Simple English Wikipedia - The Simple English Wikipedia is for everyone! That includes children and adults who are learning English or just anyone wanting an article with a more understandable vocabulary. This can be important in areas that use those big words. There are 120,740 articles on the Simple English Wikipedia
Share My Lesson - Share My Lesson is a place where educators can come together to create and share their very best teaching resources. Developed by teachers for teachers, this free platform gives access to high-quality teaching resources and provides an online community where teachers can collaborate with, encourage and inspire each other
Learn Zillion - Why recreate the wheel? This website has thousands of free lessons with great visuals, and conceptual explanations that both kids and adults can understand It is a great way to support both individualized and personalized instruction. Use LearnZillion to identify what students understand, and to provide challenge or support in class, or at home.
Thunderbolt Kids - Many times it is in the secondary school where learners are grappling with science and maths concepts. But, many of the misconceptions and problems that are evident at this level, often have their roots in the primary school phase. To attempt to improve the STEM subjects in South Africa, the people at Siyavula and the Sasol Inzalo Foundation actually need to start at the beginning and secure a strong foundation on which learners can build their future Science and Technology careers.
Common Core Explorer - Graphite from Common Sense Media hits another one out of the park with this amazing search engine of great programs and apps. Some are free and some are paid... but they are all worth a look. Remember you do not have to be a Common Core State to benefit.
Better Lesson - Over 10,000 complete Common Core-aligned lessons from our 130 Master Teachers.Introducing a brand new, free resource from the Better Lesson team featuring the highest quality Common Core-aligned lessons created through our Master Teacher Project.You are sure to benefit. from great resources provided here. Check out the science lessons that are geared toward Next Gen Science.
Engage New York - This is a well unpacked and mapped curriculum complete with activities from the state of New York. It covers the CCSS standards for LA and Math.
Illustrative Math - Illustrative Mathematics is a discerning community of educators dedicated to the coherent learning of mathematics. It was founded in 2011 at the University of Arizona, and has operated since 2013 as an independent 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. This organization shares carefully vetted resources for teachers and teacher leaders to give our children an understanding of mathematics and skill in using it. They also provide expert guidance to states, districts, curriculum writers, and assessment writers working to improve mathematics education.
Resources Relating to OER
Open Education Resource Rubrics - The following rubrics represent an evaluation system for objects found within Open Education Resources. An object could include images, applets, lessons, units, assessments and more. For the purpose of this evaluation, any component that can exist as a stand-alone qualifies as an object. The rubrics in this packet can be applied across content areas and object types.
Evaluating OER Resources - Another set of outstanding rubrics from the state of Washington.Digital Learning Department at the Office of Public Instruction
Open Education Resources - Designing for all Learners - Publication from National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials.
California Learning Resource Network Digital Initiative -(Research) Review results from all three phases of the Digital Textbook Initiative are listed separately in this report. Each link will take you to the full CLRN textbook review. While digital textbooks were reviewed for their alignment with the content standards, California's Social Content Review criteria were only applied during Phase Three. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of these books are reminded to conduct their own reviews to determine whether these resources meet their needs.
Creative Commons OER Network - With the internet, universal access to education is possible, but its potential is hindered by increasingly restrictive copyright laws and incompatible technologies. The Education program at Creative Commons works to minimize these barriers, supporting the CC mission through consulting, education, and outreach on using the right technologies and licenses to maximize the benefits of open educational resources (OER) and the return on investment in publicly funded education and research programs. Our work cuts across all levels of education (K-12 to post secondary) and sectors of industry (nonprofit to corporate).
State of Main OER Site - The state of Maine has provided grant money to support the identification of on-line educational resources and professional development to assist teachers to develop the skills and knowledge to more fully utilize Maine’s rich technological resources to enhance teaching and learning
K12 OER Collaborative - The K–12 OER Collaborative is an initiative led by a group of 12 states with the goal of creating comprehensive, high-quality, open educational resources (OER) supporting K–12 mathematics and English language arts that are aligned with state learning standards.
Utah OER Review Library - Take a look at these vetted resources by teh State of Utah. This is part of Utah's commintment to building OER Resources for their schools.
Evaluating OER Resources - Another set of outstanding rubrics from the state of Washington.Digital Learning Department at the Office of Public Instruction
Open Education Resources - Designing for all Learners - Publication from National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials.
California Learning Resource Network Digital Initiative -(Research) Review results from all three phases of the Digital Textbook Initiative are listed separately in this report. Each link will take you to the full CLRN textbook review. While digital textbooks were reviewed for their alignment with the content standards, California's Social Content Review criteria were only applied during Phase Three. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of these books are reminded to conduct their own reviews to determine whether these resources meet their needs.
Creative Commons OER Network - With the internet, universal access to education is possible, but its potential is hindered by increasingly restrictive copyright laws and incompatible technologies. The Education program at Creative Commons works to minimize these barriers, supporting the CC mission through consulting, education, and outreach on using the right technologies and licenses to maximize the benefits of open educational resources (OER) and the return on investment in publicly funded education and research programs. Our work cuts across all levels of education (K-12 to post secondary) and sectors of industry (nonprofit to corporate).
State of Main OER Site - The state of Maine has provided grant money to support the identification of on-line educational resources and professional development to assist teachers to develop the skills and knowledge to more fully utilize Maine’s rich technological resources to enhance teaching and learning
K12 OER Collaborative - The K–12 OER Collaborative is an initiative led by a group of 12 states with the goal of creating comprehensive, high-quality, open educational resources (OER) supporting K–12 mathematics and English language arts that are aligned with state learning standards.
Utah OER Review Library - Take a look at these vetted resources by teh State of Utah. This is part of Utah's commintment to building OER Resources for their schools.