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OER, a part of the global open content movement, are shared teaching, learning, and research resources available under legally recognized open licenses -- free for people to reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute. Why are OER important? High-quality OER can save teachers significant time and effort on resource development and advance student learning inside and outside the classroom.

Below are 45 design thinking resources you can use to lead this movement in your own classroom.

Today Filiz and I had a chance to the attend the Mendeley meeting of library. I am really glad to meet with Mendeley :) I think it will be very helpful for my future studies. Also I have a message for you from library. Until January we have the oppotunity of using institutional version of Mendeley which is more functional than the standard one. If the number of users is sufficient our library may consider prolonging the subscription. In order to use the institutional version of Mendeley you should subscribe with your metu mail adress and when you sign up you have to find the METU group and join it.

Great!!! We will have two library specialists this week in class to talk about library resources and software. We can explore Mendeley together as a group. As far as I remember we can create an online shared resource repository in Mendeley.

I'm really cruious about Mendeley. Please help me to be familiar with it.

ACM library has so many article, publications and resources on cognitive tutoring and intelligent tutoring systems. If you are interested, you can check more here. Also METU has the subscription to ACM.

The link provides useful info about expert resources that enhance deliberate practice presented by a professor as part of a class.

I think the references of this page can be beneficial for us as well, thank you.

Interviews with Learning Scientists

Welcome to the Learning by Design Project website. (If you are looking for the Learning by Design software application, you'll find it here.) This site is a resource for participants in the Learning by Design project, or for those who want to find out more about the project.

This is a website focuses on mainly contemporary styles of learning and teaching. One of its focus is on learning by design alongside some others. There is a lot of content: knowledge on LBD or its pedagogy. They also offer online courses, some suggestions for teachers who want to utilize LBD in their classes and ways to evaluate learners' knowledge.

www.tpack.org is considered the top community for TPACK. They send out newsletters bimonthly or trimonthly, which includes the recent papers, presentations in conferences, blog entries, dissertations and theses written or published related to TPACK. It is an incredibly vast resource, and subscribing is really easy and free of charge. All you have to do is send a blank e-mail to "sympa@lists.wm.edu" with the subject line "subscribe TPACK.news NAME SURNAME". Example: subscribe TPACK.news Ceren Korkmaz From the link above, you can download their latest issue (#31, December 2016): P.S: FYI, the link will expire in a couple of days :) Sorry that I can't upload files here.

You can reach some example plans from here.

* Mix and match the components of Flow; * Keep the user's experience within the user's Flow Zone; * Offer adaptive choices, allowing different users to enjoy the Flow in their own way; and * Embed choices inside the core activities to ensure the Flow is never interrupted.

This is a research conducted on the possible replacement of teachers by intelligent tutors. Some interesting results are; rather than replacing the teacher, the tutor provided an additional resource for students and using the tutors allowed teachers to provide more individualized help.

"The impact of design thinking in education is two-fold: First, by requiring the use of multiple lenses when looking at a problem, design thinking demonstrates that bringing together seemingly disparate perspectives can often be the key to finding effective solutions.Second, and perhaps more importantly, design thinking emphasizes that collaboration and the use of outside resources are critical to both the learning and problem solving process-a notion that will be valuable to their scholarly, professional and personal lives."

Via this link you can watch the interviews conducted with design-based research experts: Brenda Bannan, Dr. Sasha Barab, Paul Cobb, Allan M. Collins, Chris Hoadley, Anthony E. Kelly, Susan McKenney, Thomas C. Reeves, William Sandoval. I believe these videos will provide a better understanding.

Thank you for the source, it is really good to see the people working in this area together.

Yelda, this is a really good resource for me. Hope to see some Turkish scholars in the list in the near future.

The article is on the integration of case-based reasoning to problem-based learning, it is an example to a merging of them. Examples of science instruction can be found and CBR in detail is explained by Kolodner and her colleagues.

Here is one of the adapted form of Driscoll's articles.

A nice book enjoyable to read, which includes interesting ideas about thinking, computers and cognitive sciences

Yes, now I have reached the book:) thank you for sharing this with us. Reading on such creative people and getting to know them more is great.

Thanks. In my reading list now.

David Perkins has conducted long-term programs of research and development in the areas of teaching and learning for understanding, creativity, problem-solving and reasoning in the arts, sciences, and everyday life. He has also studied the role of educational technologies in teaching and learning and has designed learning structures and strategies in organizations to facilitate personal and organizational understanding and intelligence. His inquiries reflect a conception of mind that emphasizes the interlocking relationships among thinking, learning, and understanding. The three depend deeply on one another. Meaningful learning aims at understanding and depends on thinking with and about what one is learning. Effective thinking in the subject matters and in general involves understanding the resources of the mind and learning to deploy them sensitively and systematically

gives some insights for etcher collaboration..

Thanks for sharing this Hatice. As Afranur, I am in need of such useful sources. These really help for the design of lessons.

Beyond textbooks:) Actually if teachers are left alone in finding out brilliant applications and applying it would be no use. Now, we can register online platforms and share. Here, what is unique is that teachers search, gather to discuss, practice and discuss again. This is collaboration in real terms!

This is an easy explanation of the differences between two pioneers in the field of LS

I like this web site. Used some of the examples and resources in my educational psychology course. Thanks for sharing.