Projects
From OER Commons Wiki
Explore existing projects and join in by adding new OER projects to this list:
OER Commons Collaboration and Training Programs with Educators:
- Sun Curve Challenge: ISKME announces the Sun Curve Design Challenge, a partnership with INKA, the creator of the Sun Curve hydroponic garden and laboratory and ISKME's OER Commons project, to challenge teachers and students to produce new OER materials and incorporate green design thinking into the classroom.
- International OER Exchange Pilot Phase II: The Pollen Project, 2009: The next phase of our teacher exchange across the continents as we prepare to concentrate in plant biology investigation and implications for climate change.
- International OER Exchange Pilot: Our 2008 program with middle school science teachers in several countries to learn to share curriculum and student projects about climate change study.
- BioQUEST SCOPE and OER: Exploring the Methods of SCOPE and the interactions with OER: An in-depth training with biology faculty, including video clips, on using the collaboratory model and OER to engage in investigative case-based learning, as part of the NSF-supported SCOPE project.
- World Congress on Computers in Agriculture 2009 Workshop: "Open Educational Resources and Learning Repositories for Agriculture, Food and Environment", June 23, 2009, Reno, Nevada. This one-day workshop is aimed at bringing together educational, technology, and content stakeholders that are producing, developing and/or publishing online learning resources on agriculture, food and environment, framing a discussion on the rich potential, challenges and opportunities of online learning repositories and Open Educational Resources in these areas, and engaging participants in OER processes.
- View How and Why of OER, a narrated slide presentation about the importance and potential benefits of OER and how to use OER Commons. The transcript is here.
- Learn about Stanford Summer Teaching Institute 2008, "OER and Web 2.0 in the Classroom": Our summer teacher training program focusing on open teacher-led curriculum, social networking, and many common digital and online applications, such as flickr, podcasts, or del.icio.us, that teachers can easily learn to integrate into their practice.
- CSTA Collaborative Networking and Open Resources for Teaching Investigative Science: A presentation and interactive introduction to OER and contemporary science in the K-12 classroom, from the California Science Teachers Association, 2008 Conference.
- ISKME EdForum May 2008: "From Collaboratories to Public Space: Bringing the World to Students and Putting Classrooms in the Wild": View video clips from ISKME's 2008 EdForum that focused on authentic learning experiences in science and using technology.
- From STEM to STEAM: Incorporating the Arts and OER into Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, 2009: Sun Curve Challenge
- MELT Summer School Project: An international project and workshop based in Europe for K-12 teachers to engage with resources that can "travel well" across regions.
ISKME Research and Frameworks for OER
- OER Case Study Project: A in-depth study of six OER projects around the world to develop a model of continuous improvement for project leaders to be able to integrate into their projects and share their lesson learned with others.
- OER Case Study Framework: Research results led to the development of a case study model and toolkit for continuous improvement and self-evaluation of OER projects.
- Open Textbook Project: A year-long project based at Foothill-DeAnza Community College examining models for and usage of open textbooks at the community college level.
- OER Spotlight: Free High School Science Texts (FHSST): Enjoy these short video clips of interviews with FHSST founder Mark Horner. Hear his experiences in starting a grassroots collaborative open textbook project in South Africa.
Bridging Projects: Stories, Questions, Meetings, Plans
- OER Storytelling Project
- OER Community Meeting Attendees Project Template
- OER Steering Committee Planning
OER Projects by Others
(Feel free to create a project summary wiki page about your OER project and link to it here)
- Open.Michigan - The University of Michigan's Open Educational Resources initiative.
- eLangdell - Education Commons for law schools
