Digital OER Science and Math via an LMS

Dan McGuire

SABIER - Stone Arch Bridge Initiative for Education Resources

Keywords: OER STEM


Abstract

Workshop participants will examine digital online curricula via hands-on experience as both student and teacher. An overview of the digital content available to schools will be presented examining Open Educational Resources, school district self-created content, subscription, and nonsubscription commercial content. Experience a fourth grade science lesson, first as a student, then as a teacher. Present overview of elementary digital content and examples of each: OER—Open Educational Resources; MPCC; Open Up Resources; Concord Consortium Learning Modules; School District self-created content; Nonsubscription, commercial; OpenEd.com; Other commercial; Examples of Implementation tools. Open-ended discussion of participants’ experience with various aspects of implementation. Call to action for next steps of institutional digital curriculum implementation.

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Author Biography

Dan McGuire, SABIER - Stone Arch Bridge Initiative for Education Resources

Dan is the founder and Exec. Dir. of SABIER. An experienced teacher leader and pioneer of Open Education Resource curation and learning technologies professional development and implementation. He has created and presented professional development to support teachers using new methods of formative assessment, participated in the development of CBE tools in LMSs, and formative assessment systems.