Learn About OEP

The goal of Open Educational Practice (OEP) is to build the knowledge, skills, and behaviors that support and improve teaching and learning. Using open educational resources (OER) presents unique affordances for educators, as the use of OER is an invitation to adapt, personalize, and add relevancy to materials that inspire and encourage deeper learning in the classroom and across institutions.

We encourage you to explore the professional learning resources and tools gathered here to develop and deepen engagement in open education, and equally as important, please join the Open Education Community of Practice to contribute resources to these important collections.

View OER Webinars

ISKME offers regular, recorded webinars focused on how to create, curate, remix, and get started with an open practice.

Thought Leaders in OEP

Meet those educators who are advancing open educational practice in their communities.

TACCL Project Fellows

Teachers Advancing Common Core Learning (TACCL) Project Fellows share how they have collaborated to create OER that supports close reading and math integration.

Rajiv Jhangiani

Interview with Rajiv Jhangiani on 'Enhancing Pedagogy via Open Educational Practices'

Highline Public Schools Word Study Guides

Highline Public Schools’ Word Study Guides provide resources to teach K-2 students the phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, and sight-word-recognition skills that will empower them to become confident, competent and thoughtful readers and writers. Instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, and sight words can and should be fun, fast-paced, and brief. The lessons in these documents are designed with that in mind. Visit Cedarhurst Elementary in Burien, Washington to see the materials in action.

6th Grade Science Experiment at Park Middle School

Students learned to measure heat and light, all while finding the answers to their own scientific questions.

Tools and Templates

Open Educational Practice Rubric

This rubric defines a set of open education practices that help educators to advance a classroom and school culture of open education and to advocate for the potential benefits of open educational resources (OER) in the context of continuous improvement. The rubric is intended to guide educators in working to ensure that every student has the opportunity to engage in learning effectively by accessing, curating, evaluating, and adapting open educational resources in response to students’ particular needs, interests, and contexts, to author and share original or remixed resources, and to disseminate approaches to the implementation of those resources for future OER users to benefit from.

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Open Practice & OER Commons Webinars

Interested in learning more about the tools you can find on OER Commons to help your work in open education? Visit ISKME's OER Training Webinars here to watch recordings of the webinars.

OER Webinars

Permissions Guide For Educators

This guide provides a primer on copyright and use permissions. It is intended to support teachers, librarians, curriculum experts and others in identifying the terms of use for digital resources, so that the resources may be appropriately (and legally) used as part of lessons and instruction. The guide also helps educators and curriculum experts in approaching the task of securing permission to use copyrighted materials in their classrooms, collections, libraries or elsewhere in new ways and with fewer restrictions than fair use potentially offers. The guide was created as part of ISKME's Primary Source Project, and is the result of collaboration with copyright holders, intellectual property experts, and educators.

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OER Librarian Leadership & Practice Rubric

The rubric is designed to guide our practice in supporting and evaluating effective school librarian leadership development within this project. The components of the rubric are called elements -- the building blocks that this project deems as necessary to support school librarians to co-lead and promote high-quality STEM learning experiences that take advantage of rich information, openly accessible resources, and useful technologies, and as they collaborate with STEM teachers to integrate text-focused inquiry and literacy into the curriculum.

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STEM Inquiry Lesson Authoring Template

This template supports STEM teachers and librarians in working collaboratively to create lessons that build science practice and STEM inquiry skills in alignment with state and national science standards, and that address the Common Core literacy shifts around close reading and building textual evidence.

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Ontario Colleges OER Toolkit

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.

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The OER Curation Framework

An OER resource guide for school librarians.

Open Educational Practice in Action Hub

Learn About OEP

View OER Webinars

Collections

Find and Curate OER

Building OER Curricula

Evaluate and Align OER

Share and Collaborate

Librarians and Open Education

Open Licensing

Advocate for OER

Open Education Communities of Practice

Thought Leaders in OEP

TACCL Project Fellows

Rajiv Jhangiani

Highline Public Schools Word Study Guides

6th Grade Science Experiment at Park Middle School

OER Commons Virtual Academy

Tools and Templates

Open Educational Practice Rubric

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Open Practice & OER Commons Webinars

OER Webinars

Permissions Guide For Educators

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OER Librarian Leadership & Practice Rubric

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STEM Inquiry Lesson Authoring Template

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Ontario Colleges OER Toolkit

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The OER Curation Framework

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