Illinois Open Educational Resources http://www.ilsharedlearning.org #IOER The Illinois Open Educational Resources (IOER) provides open access to curate, share, and create Open Educational Resources (OER). Achieve provides rubrics, guidance, and training to help states, K-12 school districts, and teachers use and evaluate OER, and to align OER to Common Core States Standards (CCSS).

1. Open Educational Resources
CC BY Achieve 2015
http://ilsharedlearning.org

2. Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and
learning materials that reside in the public domain or have
been released under an open license. These resources may
be used free of charge, distributed without restriction
and modified without permission.
OER range from small-scale learning objects,
such as classroom activities, to full lessons,
units and textbooks.
Open Educational Resources
(OER) Definition
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3. Achieve (http://www.achieve.org )convenes leaders from across
states to come together to share their experiences and tackle
common challenges. Achieve manages: American Diploma
Project Network, the PARCC consortium, and the Next
Generation Science Standards development effort.
To help states, districts, teachers, and other users determine the
degree of alignment of OER to the Common Core State
Standards, and to determine aspects of quality of OER, Achieve
provides:
• OER Rubrics and Training Materials
• Educators Evaluating Quality Instructional
Products (EQuIP) Rubrics
About Achieve
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4. Illinois Open Educational Resources (IOER)
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IOER (http://ilsharedlearning.org) provides open access and
tools for curating, sharing and creating OER.

5. Benefits of OER
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Source: Wiley, David. Defining the “Open” in Open Content.
http://opencontent.org/definition/.
As states implement the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), they
have the opportunity to leverage the “common” in the CCSS by
sharing exemplary tools, resources and practices. Educators can
leverage the larger scale created by common standards by sharing
OER aligned to the CCSS.
Educators can engage with OER in the following ways:
• Retain — The right to make, own and control copies of the content (e.g.,
download, duplicate, store and manage)
• Revise — Adapt and improve OER so that they better meet the needs of
teachers and students
• Remix — Combine OER to produce new open materials
• Reuse — Use the original or new versions of OER in different contexts
• Redistribute — Make copies and share the original
OER or new versions, free of traditional
copyright restrictions

6. Online Resources vs. OER
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Online Resources
 Available only digitally on the
Internet
 May or may not contain an open
license that allows for their free
sharing and reuse
 May have a traditional copyright
license
OER
 May be available online or in a
nondigital format (such as a
printed, open textbook)
 Must contain open licenses that
allow for their free sharing and
reuse

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Importance of Communicating About OER
In Achieve’s work with educators regarding OER, one of the
most frequently cited barriers to using OER in the classroom is
lack of knowledge among educators about OER.

8. Using OER
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• As states and districts transition to new college- and career-ready standards,
teachers need access to instructional materials that are high quality, aligned to
standards and adaptable to support use in a variety of classrooms.
• States and districts need ways to ensure that instructional materials, in whatever
format they are available, are quality and aligned to standards. Copyright restrictions
on traditional instructional materials can keep teachers from adapting and sharing
quality resources that best suit their instructional needs.
• The use of a blended approach to instructional materials that includes traditional,
digital and open educational resources offers teachers the opportunity to use, freely
share and adapt quality, standards-aligned resources to meet the needs of
classrooms.
The Illinois Open Educational Resources (IOER)
(http://ilsharedlearning.org) offers open access to curate,
share and create OER.

9. Determining the Quality and
Alignment of OER
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A second barrier to using OER is questions about the quality of
OER and where to find quality OER.
IOER has online evaluation tools used to evaluate resources and
learning standards alignment including the Achieve OER rubric
and a derivative of the Achieve rubrics for ELA/literacy and
mathematics.
• Achieve is developing guidance for using each
of the above measures of quality, both
separately and together in a quality review
process.

10. Example of an OER on
Illinois Open Educational Resources
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Resource
Ratings
Including:
Achieve
OER Rubric
and CCSS
Rubrics (a
derivative of
Achieve’s
CCSS
Rubrics.
Licensing
https://ioer.ilsharedlearning.org/Resource/543476/HSLE__Health_Science_Curriculum

11. Learn More About IOER
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Visit the IOER User Guide to learn more.
http://ioer.ilsharedlearning.org/Help/Guide.aspx

12. Begin Using IOER
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http://ilsharedlearning.org
• Register to create an
account.
• Open your library.
• Follow other libraries
and learning lists.
• Curate, share, and
create OER.
• Go to Info for the
User Guide.

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Learn About OER
http://ioer.ilsharedlearning.org/Library/451/Open_Educational_Resources
• Review OER
Resources.
• Register with IOER.
• Like and Follow the
OER Library.
• Join this library to
curate resources
about OER.

14. Questions?
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http://ilsharedlearning.org
• Review the User Guide
http://ioer.ilsharedlearning.org/Help/Guide.aspx
• Configure IOER widgets for your website
http://ioer.ilsharedlearning.org/widgets/
• See the IOER Developer Documentation
http://ioer.ilsharedlearning.org/developers/
• Submit a questions from the Contact Us page at
the bottom of the site.