The Washington OER Hub is an online library of free, high-quality K–12 learning and teaching materials created by and curated for Washington educators.Watch introductory videos and download this informational handout to share with your district and colleagues.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Brief document targeted to educators and school districts on the benefits of OER.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Getting started information for users of the Washington OER Hub.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This resource provides guidance for school districts when considering OER for adoption as well as currently available full-course openly licensed resources to consider.
This document provides background on how resources are submitted to Groups, reviewed, and filtered into Learning Collections on the Washington OER Hub. The criteria are designed to be adapted for any content area to evaluate lessons that may extend over a few periods or days or units that include integrated and focused lessons. The criteria are NOT designed to evaluate a single task or stand-alone activity.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This is a detailed document written for district superintendents, assistant superintendents, curriculum directors, and technology directors who are investigating the implementation/adoption of OER. Download the formatted documents or use the online version.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
ISTE and New America interviewed district and state leaders, who shared key takeaways from their experiences with using PreK-12 open educational resources (OER).
Material Type: Case Study, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Brief video describing licensing and permissions associated with Open Educational Resources (OER), including various Creative Commons licenses. These licenses give content creators a standardized way to share their resources with other educators around the world.
Material Type: Lecture
Brief video describing the benefits that using OER can have for educators. OER empowers teachers to make decisions about the best curriculum for their specific needs, save money and empower students as educational content creators.
Material Type: Lecture
This resource provides guidance for school districts when considering OER for adoption as well as currently available full-course openly licensed resources to consider.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This document is an evidence-based guide that outlines the practical and policy supports needed to enable K-12 school librarians to take on leadership roles around OER, and to support OER curation efforts by librarians and all educators. This guide is based on a study led by ISKME (iskme.org) in collaboration with Florida State University's School of Information. The study is titled “Exploring OER Curation and the Role of School Librarians". ISKME designs guides and toolkits that help educators navigate and implement new teaching and learning practices. Grounded in research, our evidence-based guides and toolkits help articulate what actually works in real education settings—and are tailored to the unique professional learning needs of our clients and their stakeholders. The study was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (www.imls.gov), under grant number LG-86-17-0035-17. The findings and recommendations expressed in this document do not necessarily represent those of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Material Type: Case Study, Teaching/Learning Strategy
The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction is releasing this model tool for screening for biased content to Washington districts in the hope that it will provide suggestions and examples for review teams during the instructional materials selection and adoption process.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
OER Passport is a professional development program that takes educators through the process of understanding, finding, developing and sharing Open Educational Resources. This course trains teachers and students on OER use, reuse, licensing, creation, and sharing by completing the following tasks. The first three tasks lay a solid foundation and provide teachers with the tools to complete the last three tasks which focus on the use, reuse, production, and innovative teaching practices. Participants can complete the tasks online. There are also files to print/create physical copies of OER Passports that can be used in an offline environment.
Material Type: Reading
This module was created in response to an observed need by BranchED and the module authors for efforts to increase the recognition, adaptation, and use of open educational resources (OER) among pre- and in-service teachers and the faculty who work in educator preparation programs. The module's purpose is to position teacher educators, teacher candidates and in-service teachers as empowered content creators. By explicitly teaching educators about content that has been licensed for re-use and informing them about their range of options for making their own works available to others, they will gain agency and can make inclusive and equity-minded decisions about curriculum content. The module provides instructional materials, resources, and activities about copyright, fair use, public domain, OER, and visual literacy to provide users with a framework for selecting, modifying, and developing curriculum materials.
Material Type: Module
Open Educational Resources (OER) provide equal access to educational resources at no cost. This toolkit provides information and tools to help educators and education staff to understand, engage with, and sustain OER in their work and practice.
Material Type: Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Welcome to How to use Open Educational Resources, a self-paced workshop. So, what is this course all about? This course walks you through techniques to incorporate Open Educational Resources (OER) into your teaching practice. The course will cover the fundamental aspects of OER including open licensing and public domain. It focuses on providing practical guidance in locating and applying openly available resources. It is expected that upon completion of this course participants will be able to Describe the meaning of open educational resources. Differentiate the concepts of open licensing, public domain, and all rights reserved copyrights. Identify resources that are openly licensed or in the public domain. Distinguish the different types of Creative Commons licenses. License works using a Creative Commons license. Find open educational resources and properly attribute a work offered under a Creative Commons license. This training is not facilitated. It is designed to to be a self-paced course. If you are interested in a facilitated training that will result in an official certificate upon successful completion, visit the SBCTC training website.
Material Type: Module
Brief video describing Open Educational Resources (OER) and their associated copyrights and permissions. Generally Open Educational Resources have terms of use that allow for permissions that are known as the "Five Rs:" Reuse, Remix, Revise, Retain, and Redistribute.
Material Type: Lecture
A brief video where OER experts give their reasons for working in the field of Open Educational Resources. Primary reasons include empowering teachers, equalizing access to education, reducing teachers' worries about copyright, reducing educational costs, and facilitating the open flow of information.
Material Type: Lecture
Brief video explaining the benefits of using Open Educational Resources (OER) as opposed to commercial resources. Research shows that students perform as well or better when using OER.
Material Type: Lecture
The OER Toolkit aims to improve equitable access to open learning resources and services to college students by providing a province-wide academic support platform for faculty to use while designing courses and assignments. The Toolkit is a one-stop guide to open educational resources, providing faculty and library staff with tools and information to understand, engage with, create, and sustain OER in their work and practice. The Toolkit is designed to be used by anyone involved with OER at an academic institution, whether you are part of a team that is collaborating to create OER, a library staff member who is supporting OER development and use, an advocate for OER at your institution, or an instructor seeking to incorporate OER and open pedagogy in the classroom. The primary purpose of this Toolkit is to support faculty and library staff at Ontario colleges; however, it is openly available for use beyond the Ontario college community.
Material Type: Module, Teaching/Learning Strategy
