Best Practices - Theory & Evaluation
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition: open access, open data, open education.
Transitioning to Open Educational Resources
EQuIP (Educators Evaluating the Quality of Instructional Products) is an initiative designed to identify high-quality materials aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
Open Educational Resources Meet Instructional Design
Four questions you need to ask yourself about instructional design before choosing OERs.
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ASSESSMENTS
Reciprocal Questioning
Anchor Sites - All Disciplines
Use this site to mark the work you created as a Creative Commons shared resource. Search the site for other CC resources and materials. There is no registration to use the Creative Commons licenses.
Merlot II - Multimedia Educational Resource
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching - searchable OER database by subject.
Free STEM resources and simulations by subject for grades K-12.
VIDEO BASED RESOURCES
Free Educational Videos. Organized.
Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom.
Wiki Civic Commons App Catalogs
Gooru - Open Lesson Plans Created by Teachers
Gooru honors the human right to education by creating technology that enables educators and researchers “open-source” effective practices and content to improve learning outcomes for all.
Open Culture - hundreds of links for courses, videos, etc
"The best free cultural & educational media on the web" -Audio Books Online, Courses, MOOCs, Movies, Languages, Textbooks,eBooks
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Smarthistory is a collaboration of more than 200 art historians, archaeologists, curators and other specialists who want to make the highest-quality art history learning content freely available to a global audience. Contributing editors oversee specific content areas.