1. Beyond the Repository: Toward Deeper Understanding of OER Implementation
Barbara Soots
Open Educational Resources Program Manager
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Tracy Pitzer
Director of Instructional Leadership
Puyallup School District

2. Points along the OER Pathway
Using Open Resources
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Engagement with OER often follows a path from using materials to sharing of educational resources for the common good and a finally practice of continual iterative development of material.
Adapting Open Materials
Promoting Open Practice

3. Needs: Using OER
Key considerations for stakeholders – benefits and challenges
Guidance on locating appropriate open resources to meet district needs
Rubrics to evaluate resource alignment to state learning standards and district goals
Understanding difference between free and open and permitted usage of resources

4. OER Summits
Think about OER as an important part in your district’s instructional material strategy.
Engage with stakeholders outside your area of expertise to look at OER through different lenses.
Provide a forum for cross-district discussion of OER implementation.
Mt. Rainier by Wsigemund Service CC BY SA

5. Reviewed OER Library Reviewed OER Library
24 full-course mathematics curricula
60 English Language Arts units
Review instruments and process
Reviewed OER Library

6. Understand your level of permitted use
OER Commons
Curriki
Canvas Commons
Microsoft - OER Search
Google
Edmoto Spotlight
Amazon Inspire
Smarter Balanced Digital Library
OpenEd
Pinterest
State Repositories
Individual Developers
Teachers Pay Teachers
Better Lesson
Share My Lesson
Read Works
PBS Learning Media
This is only a small portion of the sites, repositories, and search engines that educators will use to find instructional materials of ALL license types.
Know your need
Search critically
Review with recognized rubrics for the evaluation of instructional materials
Understand your level of permitted use

7. Needs: Adapting Open Materials
Collaboration on developing implementation resources
Sharing best practices for attribution
Understanding license compatibility
Strategies for dealing with print
Professional development options
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8. OER User Groups Organized around a problem of practice Share ideas
Define best practices
Champion effective distribution and implementation of resources
Together by JD Hancock CC BY

9. OER User Groups EngageNY Mathematics
EngageNY Mathematics User Group

10. OER Grants
Provide grant funding and ongoing program support for districts developing, adapting, and adopting OER core-instructional material.
Support districts in their efforts to locate, vet, and distribute open content and adhere to licensing requirements
Highlight OER grant stories as case studies and provide access to resources
Work with data to assess impact

11. Needs: Promoting Open Practice
District Policy
Digital Infrastructure
Clear academic standards
Quality control
Collaboration time
Ongoing Leadership

12. Mind the Gap - Adapt or Adopt - To print or not to print
- The glamour of “FREE”
- Adapt or Adopt
- To print or not to print
- Sharing is caring
- Care and feeding of OER
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13. Share district-developed resources
OER Commons Washington Hub

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