Creating Collaborative Connections to Digital Resources

Where do we start? Kentucky – recent historic actions for education Creative Commons & OER – the global perspective The Depot – crowdsourcing & cost savings Demo The Orange Grove – crossing borders & legislation Demo Other projects Where do you go? Unbridled Learning

Mandate (Senate Bill 1) enacted 2009 for -- the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), the Kentucky Board of Education (KBE), and the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) -- To create a Unified Strategy for College and Career Readiness to reduce college remediation and to increase the college completion rates by 2014 Kentucky’s Unbridled Learning

To align revised K-12 academic standards with college readiness requirements and expectations and promote degree completion: Accelerated Learning Opportunities Secondary Intervention Programs College and Career Readiness Advising Postsecondary College Persistence and Degree Completion Four Key Strategies

Kentucky was the first state to adopt the Common Core Standards (Feb. 2010): To be known as the Kentucky Core Academic Standards for English/Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics Provides grade by grade level content standards linked to college and career readiness standards Integrate final standards into agency work and processes to ensure that all Kentucky students experience a successful and productive future KY Core Academic Standards

KY Council on Postsecondary Education’s Objectives College Readiness – increase a number of Kentuckians college-ready and entering postsecondary education and college-ready GED graduates, and increase effectiveness of K-12 teachers and school leaders Student Success – increase high-quality degree production at all levels, close achievement gaps, decrease financial barriers to college access & completion Research, Economic & Community Development Efficiency & Innovation Higher Ed Strategic Agenda

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Integration Quality educational resources from Kentucky educators along with the best free courses, videos, lesson plans and open access textbooks Search for, select and add new content from inside an online course Integrates seamlessly with Blackboard, Moodle and ANGEL course management systems Package once/reuse many times in the classroom Mix & Match

Integration Quality educational resources from Kentucky educators along with the best free courses, videos, lesson plans and open access textbooks Search for, select and add new content from inside an online course Integrates seamlessly with Blackboard, Moodle and ANGEL course management systems Package once/reuse many times in the classroom Mix & Match

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Collaboration Learning community of members contributing, commenting, evaluating or suggesting resources for the Depot’s collection Depot Scholars provide peer review for quality control and improvement Work with colleagues to create original content using the Depot’s built-in collaboration tools Act as volunteer reviewer, have about 90 Scholars Create or Review

Publication Add original resources under Creative Commons copyright licensing Usage tracking of original resources with reporting Receive feedback from the Depot community in the form of comments and starred reviews Find OER textbooks and other digital content from partner states and the planet Share & Rate

Kentucky Core Academic Standards PD resources on the new Common Core State Standards, whether postsecondary or K-12, posted in the Kentucky Learning Depot Access and share standards-aligned materials across borders and collaborate with educators in other states Shared taxonomies provide metadata, tagging and connective “language” Standards & Taxonomies

Local, National & Global Content Kentuckiana Digital Library – hundreds of digital images, documents, audio files about Kentucky history NROC – high quality online course content for postsecondary and high school level education Other state repositories - more high quality content through cooperative efforts New content – content is alive and growing

Robin Donaldson – Project Manager Channel: ory/videoshttp:// ory/videos Video: Crossing Borders - Share & Share Alike

The Obviousness of Open Policy Dr. Cable Green Director of Global Learning twitter: cgreen

Enid Wohlstein, Director Kentucky Learning Depot