OER and Arts Education
From OER Commons Wiki
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.
Goals:
ISKME’s OER and Arts Education project, supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation, has the following goals:
- to engage in-service and pre-service teachers and teaching artists in trainings around collaborative learning strategies and shared online resources and processes
- to develop and share a training model for others to use and adapt
- to create a pilot network that supports OER awareness and use in arts education
- 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.
Professional Development:
To see a recent example of our professional development offerings, visit the following shared wiki project pages used for the workshop:
- OER Academy on Arts Integration , held at Mills College on August 2-3, 2009, for third through twelfth grade teachers, teaching artists, and community arts leaders.
- Teaching Artist Institute , held at Cal Shakes Rehearsal Hall in Berkeley , for teaching artists.
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
