Awhile back, I was thinking about the idea of shareable media sets — collections of open-licensed photos, diagrams, maps, audio, video, etc. that could be used by teachers or students in word-processed documents or presentations or used to create web
Media sets for remix
There are so many great open resources that teachers can use in creating multimedia projects (reports, PPTs, web pages, wikis, etc.) with their students, but they take a lot of time to find and correlate. As a part of a
A new way to search and new ways to think about sharing
I’m not sure when this came out, but Google Advanced Search now has a filter for licenses. I also stumbled upon a really brilliant survey about sharing from a group called Latitude. If you haven’t already, you really should take
Publishers and OER collaborations
I’ve been involved in some conversations lately to examine how OER might be leveraged as core curriculum resources (read: replacements for textooks, for those who still use such things) in K-12. At some point in these conversations, the question of
Rethinking Instructional Materials
Late last year, the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE), an organization that helps support state board leaders and provides education on a variety of issues, convened a forum of state board of education members and other state