We encourage you to explore the links below, based on your interests and role in education.
>> Guidance, Governance, and Leadership
>> Training and Professional Development
>> Content Evaluation (Quality and Standards)
Guidance, Governance, and Leadership
- U.S. Department of Education: District Launch Packet and resources
- Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER): Frameworks, resources, and policy supporting OER use
- CSCU OER Advisory: Clearinghouse and search engine of OER resources across Connecticut's State Colleges and Universities (CSCU)
- Educause: Directory of OER resources for higher education
- GoOpen.us: Initiative of the U.S. Department of Education providing an online community and resources for districts to learn about and do more with open education resources
- iNACOL: Open Educational Resources and Collaborative Content Development: A Practical Guide for State and School Leaders
- ISKME: Research, frameworks, platforms, and best practices to support the implementation of OER strategies
- New America: K – 12 policy and practices for OER
- OER Commons: National search engine for standards-aligned OER materials
- Open Ed Group: Research on the effectiveness of OER
- SETDA: Navigating the Digital Shift
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Training and Professional Development
- Creative Commons: Copyright standards, training, and certification
- Open Pedagogy: Sharing "open" instructional practices and OER
- Skills Commons: Digital library of workforce training materials
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- CK-12: Open-source textbooks
- CSCU OER Initiative: OER resources through Connecticut's State Colleges and Universities (CSCU)
- CT State Library: Free research and eBook collections (formerly iCONN)
- Curriki: Open curriculum materials
- Georgia Virtual: K - 12 open courses and curriculum materials
- Getty Institute Open Images: Searchable database of Creative Commons licensed images
- Hippo Campus: Multimedia content on general education subjects for middle-school and high-school teachers and their students
- Khan Academy: Short lessons in the form of YouTube videos and practice exercises
- Library of Congress: Millions of public domain books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps, and manuscripts
- MIT Open Courseware: Open source courses and applications for high school and college
- National Archives: Teaching and learning resources from primary source documents
- OpenStax: Open-source textbooks
- Region 14 Public Schools: Open curriculum materials from Connecticut's Region 14 Public Schools
- Smithsonian Learning Lab: Open resources and collections from the Smithsonian Institution
- Smithsonian Open Access: Millions of downloadable images from the Smithsonian Institution
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- Beardsley Zoo: Virtual lessons and interactives from Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport, Connecticut
- C3 Teachers: Lessons with embedded primary sources, based on the Inquiry Arc of the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for State Social Studies Standards and licensed under Creative Commons
- EngageNY: Common Core-aligned curriculum and instructional resources, bilingual resources, performance tasks, and assessment guidelines
- Expeditionary Learning: Curriculum and curriculum maps spanning Language Arts, Life Science, and Social Studies
- Illustrative Mathematics: Comprehensive math curriculum, including student tasks, lesson plans and a format for engaging mathematical discussions
- Open Education Consortium: Crowd-sourced list of openly licensed instructional materials (including full courses), broken down by subject area
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Content Evaluation (Quality and Standards)
- Achieve Material Rubric: Rubric to assist in assessing quality and standards alignment of OER materials
- Instructional Materials Evaluation Tool (IMET): Designed by some of the lead writers of the Common Core, the IMET is a free tool that states and districts use to evaluate the alignment of instructional materials to the Common Core
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