OER and Arts Education

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Teachers and teaching artists can support each other in forging new pathways for integrating the arts into K-12 classrooms by sharing teaching strategies, creative expression, and curricular resources. The sharing of Open Educational Resources (OER) and related practices involving digital and social learning is the cornerstone of ISKME’s facilitation of teacher professional development and peer-based learning. Our approach leverages existing practices of teachers and builds on ISKME’s OER Commons http://www.oercommons.org network for open teaching and learning resources.

OER and Arts Education Project Goals

ISKME’s OER and Arts Education project, supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation, has the following goals:

1. to engage in-service and pre-service teachers and teaching artists in trainings around collaborative learning strategies and shared online resources and processes
2. to develop and share a training model for others to use and adapt
3. to create a pilot network that supports OER awareness and use in arts education
4. to convene a stakeholders meeting around OER and arts education in February 2010

In summer 2009, ISKME (http://www.iskme.org) launched its first series of summer courses and seminars in teacher professional development focused on OER and teacher-led approaches. In addition to focusing on the use of Open Educational Resources (OER), our trainings support teachers in modeling investigative project-based learning and experiential arts and design approaches for the classroom that can be adapted to work across disciplines. Participants learn about the concepts of “open” and resources that intended to be free and non-proprietary, and by extension, adaptable and shareable.

OER Arts-Related Projects and Workshops

Listed below are links to OER Projects that focused on the arts and professional development in arts education:

• SFUSD Summer Institute: Arts, Science, and Literacy July 19-23, 2010 Cal Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
• ISKME's Design Lab: Make the School of the Future at Maker Faire May 21-23, 2010 San Mateo County Event Center, San Mateo, CA
• Armory Center for the Arts Workshop February 2, 2010 Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
• Arts For All Workshop: Open Educational Resources and Arts Education, January 19, Culver City Unified School District, CA
• ISKME's OER Academy on Arts Integration: Integrating and Sharing Teacher-Led Curriculum in the Arts and arts integration using Social Collaboration and Multi-disciplinary approaches in the K-12 classroom.
• Teaching Artist Institute held at Cal Shakes Rehearsal Hall in Berkeley on November 7, 2009, for teaching artists.
• Media in the Classroom: Performing Arts held at KQED in San Francisco, for teachers, teaching artists, and community arts leaders.

For a complete list of ISKME's OER Projects and Workshops, go to the Projects wiki page.

Online Collaboration

• OER Arts Ning a social networking site where teachers, teaching artists, artists, and arts community leaders collaborate around the concepts of open and arts education

Create & Share OER

• Arts As Social Justice OER
• Custom Essay

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