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OER Commons
Developing an Education Ecosystem that Thrives on Knowledge Sharing
 | OER Commons (www.oercommons.org), a free teaching and learning network, has brought together nearly 20,000 educational resources available for anyone to use. Resources can be searched and filtered according to a rich set of descriptive data, including their license or terms of use. OER Commons adds social networking features to the resources, which allows teachers, students, and others to tag, rate, and review the materials, and save favorite items to a personal portfolio. |
In the process, OER Commons is helping transform how K-12 teachers and college faculty view their roles in collaborating around the development and improvement of educational materials from kindergarten through college. Teachers are participating in workshops that use OER Commons as a resource for building new curriculum. Many are energized when they find they can download resources for free, modify them however they like, and write reviews and comments about what works best—so other teachers can benefit from their expertise. Through OER Commons, sustainable and innovative approaches to learning are shifting the nature of education as we know it.
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