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"Open Educational Resources (OER) offer opportunities for increasing equity and access to high-quality K-12 education. Many state education agencies now have offices devoted to identifying and using OERs and other digital resources in their states. To help states, districts, teachers, and other users determine the degree of alignment of OERs to the Common Core State Standards, and to determine aspects of quality of OERs, Achieve has developed eight rubrics in collaboration with leaders from the OER community (download link for rubrics below). To allow users to apply these rubrics and evaluate the quality of instructional resources, Achieve partnered with OER Commons to develop an online evaluation tool. OER Commons, an online repository for open education resources, is now hosting the tool and its resulting evaluation data. Every resource available on OER Commons contains an "Evaluate Resource" button that will direct users to the evaluation tool. The coding for the tool is freely available online here. Resources rated on OER Commons will create a pool of metadata, and this metadata will be shared through the Learning Registry with other interested repositories."

OER and Engaging Online Learners

OER and Engaging Online Learners

"Welcome to the Commons The network that brings together 49,972 OER, tools for sharing curriculum with the world, and news and training on the brave new world of open education. LEARN ABOUT THE MOVEMENT"

"A coalition representing 11 state education agencies is setting out to create open educational resources to support math and English/language arts in K-12 schools."

"MyClassText is a fully integrated digital textbook composed of a Learning Management System (LMS) and Collaborative Authoring Tool (CAT) which is completely compatible with Open Educational Resources (OER) available for FREE on the web. MyMathText is completely FREE to teachers and students using it. "

" featured lessons & teachers"

A guide to standards- aligned electronic learning resources and assessment for teachers, administrator and parents

"Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can contribute to universal access to education, equity in education, the delivery of quality learning and teaching, teachers' professional development and more efficient education management, governance and administration. "

"The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) is a growing library of high-quality online course content for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement*."

"Creative Commons helps you share your knowledge and creativity with the world. Creative Commons develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation. "

"Microsoft offers free tools to help engage students in a variety of subject areas-from moviemaking to collaboration to science and beyond. Teachers can download these tools for free, the majority of which require no special training. "

"The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model."

" Interactive Science Simulations Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET project at the University of Colorado."

"With a library of over 2,700 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 240 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace. "

Online courses in a variety of subject for high school

"The non-profit empowering educators to deliver and share curricula" Has content created by educator for educators for free.

a high - quality, open source, free reading intervention program for grades pk-6

"Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license."

"WPClipart is an ever-growing collection of artwork for schoolkids and others that is free of copyright concerns as well as safe from inappropriate images. Use in school research and reports is my main focus when creating, or finding and editing -- but there are photos and clips here that work great for commercial uses, book illustrations, office presentations, and some just for fun... "

open textbooks that can be flexed for your high school