Interest in open educational resources (OER) is high as educators reassess their instructional materials. OER are free to use, edit, and share. They have the potential to engage teachers more fully in curricula, allowing them to adapt content to their students’ needs. Explore strategies to effectively locate resources and vet them for instructional shifts in the Common Core.
1. Barbara Soots
Open Educational Resources Program Manager
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
barbara.soots@k12.wa.us
Liisa Moilanen Potts
Literacy and Professional Learning Integration Director
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Liisa.MoilanenPotts@k12.wa.us
OER and the Common Core
2015 Northwest Council for Computer Education Conference
2. CC BY-SA Beyond definitions http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/6554315179/
OER are…
resources that reside in the public domain or have been released
under an intellectual property license that permits their FREE
USE and RE-PURPOSING by others.
3. Photo by nickwheeleroz - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License https://www.flickr.com/photos/7762644@N04 Created with Haiku Deck
OPEN is not the same as FREE
4. Photo by Leo Reynolds - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License https://www.flickr.com/photos/49968232@N00
The 5 Rs of OER
Reuse — copy verbatim
Redistribute — share with others
Revise — adapt and edit
Remix — combine resources
Retain — make, own, & control copies
5. Photo by designsbykari – CC BY NC http://www.flickr.com/photos/43726999@N06
OER are not one specific type of resource
Image and audio resources
Books in the public domain
Video and audio lectures
Interactive simulations
Game-based learning programs
Lesson plans
Textbooks
Online course curricula
Professional learning programs
6. Open Licensing
• Tell people how their material can be used
• Create a pool of material that can be shared and reused legally
• Enable a culture of sharing
All Rights
Reserved
No Rights
Reserved
Traditional
Copyright Alone
Public
Domain
Some
Rights
Reserved
Open License
Adapted from Creative Commons in the Classroom – J. Goates
http://www.slideshare.net/Jessicacoates/creative-commons-in-the-classroom-2013#/
8. Photo by Captain Chaos - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License http://www.flickr.com/photos/53836246@N00
Cost shift from textbooks to other critical areas
Up to date, innovative materials
Collaboration and partnerships
Continual quality improvement and standards alignment
Support for independent and differentiated learning
Solve legal concerns with distribution and adaptation
Benefits of OER
9. “The legislature finds the state's
recent adoption of new learning
standards provides an opportunity
to develop a library of high-quality,
openly licensed
K-12 courseware that is aligned
with these standards.”
CC BY Washington State Capitol – CIMG2000 by Piutus https://www.flickr.com/photos/alreadytaken/
Washington K-12 OER Project
10. CC BY Rhino Roadblock by Chris Ingrassia http://www.flickr.com/photos/andryone/445139454/in/photostream/
Challenges with OER
Finding target resources
Access and security issues
District policies that don’t recognize OER as an option
Evaluating quality and alignment
11. CC BY Leszek Leszczynski http://www.flickr.com/photos/leszekleszczynski/5068940056/in/photostream/
Finding OER
18. Reviewing OER
Help educators select high quality materials
Provide information for materials adoptions
Identify gaps in Common Core alignment
CC BY NC SA apples by msr http://www.flickr.com/photos/msr/448820990/
19. What OER to review?
Unlimited access and redistribution
Permission to adapt
Defined content area and grade band scope
22. Why OER for ELA?
What (and how many) materials do teachers of ELA have:
… in their classrooms?
… in their book rooms at school?
… in their homes?
23. The Big Picture: Every Day, Every Child Has Access to
and Practice in These Components:
WERA P3_2014_Early Literacy
• Reading
• Writing
• Language
• Speaking & Listening
• Literacy in SS/H*
• Literacy in Sci/T*
• *-- 6-12th grades
24. Three Shifts in English Language Arts
• Building content knowledge through
content-rich nonfiction
• Reading, writing, and speaking grounded
in evidence from text, both literary and
informational
• Regular practice with complex text and
its academic language
WERA P3_2014_Early Literacy
25. CCSS “Text Complexity”
the right text for the right child for the right reason at the
right time
WERA P3_2014_Early Literacy
Best made by educators
employing their
professional judgment
29. Why OER for Supplemental or Full ELA Curriculum?
1. 100% use of purchased materials
2. Differentiation for students with different
needs
3. Ability to mark up texts at de minimis cost
4. Easy context & team- driven collaboration
5. Multiple platform access
35. CC BY Nooksack Stairs by Barbara Soots
Next Steps
Follow us on Twitter: @waOSPI_OER
Visit the Reviewed OER Library
Suggest OER for the next review cycle
Take a look at the Southwest Washington
Common Core Mathematics Consortium’s OER
Algebra curriculum
Standards 1-3: Key ideas and details
Standards 4-6: Craft and structure
Standards 7-9: Integration of knowledge and ideas
The “What”– the CCSS provides standards outlining skills – but they work together. They aren’t separate pieces– they are comprehensive
What you will see next are the biggest instructional shifts for teaching, for learning, for departments, for teams, for schools, and for systems.
Keep in mind the comprehensive nature of CCSS– the shifts aren’t everything. They’re just the biggest pivot points, and hopefully they will leverage your good work together in strong ways.
Overview: the big speech, how all the practical components work together to move us from now to better.
Shifts represent things that are… shifts! They are moves from one skill set and knowledge base to another
What we are continuing to strengthen aren’t shifts– things like foundational reading skills, like working with plot and theme, character development in fiction– those components still live as important, but are not identified as SHIFTS
The shifts represent a re-framing of how we think about literacy– fewer discrete skills, and now a more comprehensive, authentic way to think about literacy