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Open educational resources are an important element of an infrastructure for learning and ranges from podcasts to digital libraries to textbooks and games

penly licensed learning resources

frees up funding to support the transition to digital learning

a visit to Williamsfield Community School District in Illinois, where U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan stopped as part of his annual back-to-school bus tour

produced with public funds or foundation grants

there likely will be other rules – such as curricular standards – that limit who can update or change the content of the resource for use in the classroom or by others.

let the applicable rules defining appropriate uses of educational resources to come from educators and not publishers

Are the materials that the Williamsfield School District is using fully open? No. Most of the materials in the EngageNY collection for example use one of the most restrictive Creative Commons license.

Cable Green, September 15th, 2015

the progress the rural school district has made in shifting to digital and open educational resources (OER) to connect their students to the world. “The walls break down,” Zack Binder, the Pre K-12 Principal said. “You’re no longer in Williamsfield, Illinois. You have the same access to this information that anyone in the world does.”

er the past two years, the 310-student district decided to adapt and adopt OER

Secretary Duncan announced today the hiring of the Department’s first full-time OER position to lead a national effort to expand schools’ access to high-quality, openly-licensed learning resources and help districts and states follow the path of Williamsfield.