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OER User Groups for K-12 Educators
Barbara SootsOpen Educational Resources Program Manager
Office of Superintendent of Public InstructionWashington State
Alignment to learning standards for state and districtFidelity of implementationEquity of accessPolicy issues with regard to adoption
Instructional Materials in K-12: A Different World
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Cost shift from textbooks to other critical areas
Up to date, innovative materials
Collaboration and partnerships
Continual quality improvement and standards alignment
Support for independent and differentiated learning
Solve legal concerns with distribution and adaptation
Benefits of OER
Instructional Material ConsiderationsNew learning standards, frameworks, and assessments
“The legislature finds the state's recent adoption of new learning standards provides an opportunity to develop a library of high-quality, openly licensed K-12 courseware that is aligned with these standards.”
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Washington OER Project
District questions…
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What should our vetting process look like?
How well do different OER platforms work when the device is offline (for students who do not have Internet access)?
How do we provide support for staff on how to review, choose and update an OER resource?
So many OER textbook publications are paper intensive but we need to print to ensure equity of access for our students. How can this be overcome?
What are the implications of using OER with respect to current district policies?
How do different OER delivery platforms work with our existing LMS?
How we can effectively access high quality,up to date curriculum materials?
How do we locate other districts doing similar work to collaborate and share?
If OER are adopted, how often would they need to be reviewed to ensure that they continue to meet the established need? Should OER be considered supplemental?
Under the Instructional Materials Umbrella
Individual units, lessons, and plans Supplemental resources – formally adopted or not
K-12 core curricula District-created materials/resources
Online courses Teacher-created materials
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These resources may be in
any delivery platform and
carry any license.
Why OER…
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Putting the pieces together
OER review process
OER District Summits
OER User Group grants
Awareness and outreach
http://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer/library/
Washington OER ProjectOER Review Results
Reviewed OER Library
• 24 full-course mathematics curricula
• 60 English Language Arts units
• Review instruments and process
Think about OER as an important part in your district’s instructional material strategy.
Engage with stakeholders outside your area of expertise to look at OER through different lenses.
Provide a forum for cross-district discussion of OER implementation.
OER Summits
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OER User Groups
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Organized around a problem of practice
Share ideas
Define best practices
Champion effective distribution and implementation of resources
Effective implementation efforts are complicated, costly and difficult for many districts to accomplish individually.
Online hub for the statewide user group, including shared content, resource materials, and teacher discussion forums.
Questions that will be addressed in this effort include:• defining best models for collaboration• adapting, modifying, and sharing content• supporting successful classroom implementations
How do you effectively share course implementation resources across a wide number of districts?
OER User GroupsEngageNY Mathematics
EngageNY Mathematics User Group
OER User GroupsEngageNY Mathematics
Of Washington State’s 296 school districts, two-thirds have 2,000 or fewer students.
Provide the opportunity for ELA teachers from four geographically close districts to come together one day per month to review, evaluate, plan, teach and reflect on curriculum available to them as open educational resources.
They will create a shared pool of high quality open educational resources to be used for classroom instruction and be shared online for the benefit of the greater educational community.
How do small schools with teachers working in isolation collaborate and share resources?
OER User GroupsOER Small Schools Consortium
Since there was not a set of published curricula that met their students’ needs, Grandview wrote draft units for grades 6 – 11.
While this work began with the purpose of creating core instructional material for Grandview teachers, the goal now is:
• To complete the units with adherence to licensing permissions• Provide proper attribution• Openly license the derivative work and disseminate via OER repositories• Promote equity of access to standards based work for all students
How do you retrofit a district designed curriculum to be ready for legal wide scale sharing?
OER User GroupsGrandview Core Literacy 6–12
Education Weekly: District Makes Far Reaching Change to Open Resources
http://www.wscss.org/lesson-plans
How do you help educators develop and review resources in a shared repository?
OER User GroupsSocial Studies Rubric Development Team
Social Studies does not have a good instrument for alignment to the WA recommended framework.
Pull together educators from across the state to leverage existing rubric adaptations from other states as a springboard to creation of our own.
Tool for vetting open resources uploaded to Washington State Council for the Social Studies repository a
Idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit,
is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.Bono
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