There are several challenges related to the selection and implementation of open educational resources (OER). First, districts find it difficult to build educator awareness of OER and to help schools and teachers understand how to best select, use, and implement OER. Second, it is challenging for educators to easily find appropriate OER aligned with their curriculum and targeted to their instructional needs, and to assess the quality of OER. Additionally, schools must overcome technology limitations that inhibit OER use and surfacing. Finally, districts are grappling with how to communicate the value of OER to teachers and families and to scale the use of OER across their district as they adopt it.
Educators responded this challenge is widespread
Respondents reported their schools or districts have made progress on this challenge
“I think the idea that we're selling is integrity to the resources, not fidelity to the resources. If [teachers are] going to replace something, then they have to show that what they're replacing it with has an equal level of rigor to support the standards being taught in that set of resources.”
OER Commons - OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
OER in K-12 Education - What does the research tell us? - From CCSSO, this blog unpacks the research about what we understand about OER and where we need to do more work to fill in knowledge gaps that will keep the open movement on the right track.
Open Education - From the US Department of Education’s Office of Education Technology, this page describes what is involved in creating an open education ecosystem.
Beyond access: Using open educational resources to improve student learning - From the Hewlett Foundation, this blog describes why school and district goals of effective teaching and learning should drive OER adoption.
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