OER Friday: Lessons lessons everywhere, but how do I effectively use them?

With nearly 35,000 free and open educational resources on Curriki alone, not to mention the millions more offered by sites like OER Commons and Connexions, the OER movement is in full swing. This means that the challenge teachers face today is not so much, “Does high quality free content exist for my classroom online?” but rather, “How do I find it quickly and use it effectively?”

Thanks to a generous grant from the Hearst Foundation, educators can now access free professional development on Curriki that teaches them to effectively make the most of OERs in their classroom.

Created by six distinguished professors from around the United States (Brett Shelton, David Wiley, Cynthia Gautreau, Chris Penny, Dave Fontaine, Michael Searson), the course is composed of the following units:

• Chapter 1 – Introduction: Getting Started with OER
• Chapter 2 – Licensing: Knowing Your Rights
• Chapter 3 – Find/Search: Making the Internet Your Best Friend
• Chapter 4 – Create: Contributing Your Best Material
• Chapter 5 – Use: Integrating OER into Your Classroom
• Chapter 6 – Remix/Reuse: Making it Your Own

To get started with the course, click here. To learn more about the course, the professors behind the course, and how it was put together, visit “Integrating Open Education Resources in the Classroom”.

We welcome you to share this course with any teacher interested in using the Internet to find and teach high quality free and open content!

Happy OER Friday!

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