K12 OER Collaborative for 2015 Open Education Week Attribution to: Jennifer Wolfe, The Learning Accelerator Layla Bonnot, Council of Chief State School Officers Karl Nelson, Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

1. K-12 OER Collaborative
Attribution to:
Jennifer Wolfe, The Learning Accelerator
Layla Bonnot, Council of Chief State School Officers
Karl Nelson, Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

2. http://k12oercollaborative.org/

3. K-12 OER Collaborative Members
States (12)
• AZ, CA, GA, ID, MN, NC, NV, OR, UT, WA, WI
Supporting organizations
• Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
• The Learning Accelerator (TLA)
• Achieve
• Creative Commons
• Lumen Learning
• State Educational Technology Directors Association
(SETDA)
• State Instructional Materials Review Association
(SIMRA)
• Association of State Supervisors of Mathematics (ASSM)

4. Project Goal
The K-12 OER Collaborative will create:
• comprehensive,
• high-quality,
• open educational resources (OER)
supporting K-12 math and ELA,
aligned with state learning standards.

5. What is OER?
Instructional materials that have been released under an
intellectual property license that allows for:
– Reuse: use the work verbatim, just exactly as you found it
– Rework: alter or transform the work so that it better
meets your needs
– Remix: combine the (verbatim or altered) work with other
works to better meet your needs
– Redistribute: share the verbatim work, the reworked work,
or the remixed work with others
– Retain: the right to make, own, and control copies of the
content

6. Why is OER important for K-12?
• Lowers costs of instructional materials
• Increases district/state control of content
– Open licenses allow resources to be modified to
meet local needs
– Allows schools to retain content rather than
locking content into annual licensing purchases
• Improves quality and allows for frequent
updates

7. OER State of the States*
*Based on a national survey of SEA deputies
Full report here: http://bit.ly/oerstates

8. Selected State OER Initiatives
• Kentucky Learning Depot: P-20 Repository
(http://kylearningdepot.org)
• Minnesota Learning Commons: Statewide tools and TA around
OER https://www.oercommons.org/hubs/minnesota
– Minnesota OER Commons: Supports content creation
https://www.oercommons.org/hubs/minnesota
• Innovative Digital Education and Learning-New Mexico (IDEAL-
NM): Statewide eLearning program, LMS to share OER
http://idealnewmexico.org/
• Digital Learning Department Washington OSPI: OER Portal
http://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer/

9. What is the greatest concern you have about your ability to implement Common Core-aligned instruction?

10. Why this project?
• Materials will be aligned to the Common Core
– Based on educator needs
– Enables states to collaborate
• Designed for digital
– Also, print-ready at a low cost
• Comprehensive materials
• Designed for long-term sustainability
• Openly licensed (CC BY 4.0)
• Coordinated effort of multiple states

11. Resources will:
• Address the CCSS Publisher’s Criteria for ELA and
Mathematics
• Include teacher materials providing strategies for
instruction for varying student needs
• Provide assessment strategies and tools that
provide sufficient guidance for interpreting
student performance
• Incorporate interactive and multimedia elements
that support quality teaching and learning

12. We’ll use an RFP to identify vendors
• Best way to find high-quality vendors, for best
price and timeline
• Open to all content developers
• Developers can build on existing work (as long
as the result is CC BY licensed)

13. Rapid Prototypes
• Allows us to pick vendors based on actual
performance
• Gives teachers and content experts
opportunity to give detailed feedback at the
start of the project

14. How can you get involved?
• Potential vendors
• States or districts
– Letters of support
– Educators on review teams