Upcoming Open Educational Resources Event – Evaluating and Promoting High-Quality Resources in the Classroom

Event Title: Open Educational Resources: Working Together to Evaluate and Promote High Quality Resources in the Classroom

Event Type: Online Discussion in the LINCS Community and Webinar

Online Discussion: May 18-22, 2015

Webinar: May 28, 2015 (1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET) / Register for the webinar

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Greetings, Community Members!

Do you use product reviews and customer feedback for items you’re interested in or need to purchase?  Do they help you make a decision?  What if you could do the same thing with teaching and learning materials for adults; how effective would it be?

LINCS is excited to announce an upcoming event:Open Educational Resources: Working Together to Evaluate and Promote High Quality Resources in the Classroom.”

On May 28, 2015, special guests Dahlia Shaewitz, Dr. Tara Myers, and Amanda Duffy from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will host an informative webinar to discuss the value of evaluating open educational resources (OER) in support of work in adult education. The US Department of Education defines OER as: “… teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits sharing, accessing, repurposing—including for commercial purposes—and collaborating with others” (See NETP, 2010, p 56). The webinar will highlight OER Commons, a searchable online database of OER, and how to tag OER for adult education, add comments, and join the OER Commons public group of adult educators.

A week prior to this webinar, from May 18-22, 2015, the AIR team invites you to share your thoughts and experiences in the Science, Math, and Evidence-based Professional Development groups. Subject matter experts will engage in week-long Q&A on the evaluation of OER, the effectiveness of quality OER for adult learners, and usefulness of the OER Commons website.

Please save the date for this expert-led event. You can learn more about OCTAE’s Open Educational Resources to Enhance STEM Teaching and Learning in Adult Education (OER STEM) project at the project page on LINCS: https://lincs.ed.gov/programs/oerstem.

Best regards,

The LINCS Community Team