waukesha hippocampus staff development presentation
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Presented to Waukesha School Teachers at August 2012 for Learning Academy In Service. Note: The majority of the these slides where created by NROC and edit for purposes of this presentationTRANSCRIPT
Discover HippoCampus!
New ContentNew Functionality
Customizable Teaching/Learning Experience
http://www.hippocampus.org/?user=myWaukSD
Teaching, learning and research resources,
In the public domain or,
Released under a license that permits free use or re-purposing by others.
For examples, see Creative Commons.org
What are OERs?
OERs include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks,
Streaming videos, audio, text, software, tools, or techniques
Used to support access to knowledge.
To benefit society by increasing access to quality educational resources at little or no cost to anyone seeking to learn
To share and leverage scarce educational resources
To create more transparency among learning institutions
To provide different means of access and reuse, depending on the source of the content
Why OER?
OER Check List
What you are looking for in OER . . .
• curricular
• complete
• quality
• easy to use
• teaching tool
PLAYLIST STUFF GOES HERE!!
New HippoCampus
• Content from NROC’s new Algebra I—An Open Course, plus Khan Academy and University of Colorado’s PhET
• Ability to customize the site, including creating individual playlists of content aggregated from across the collections
• Fresh teaching blog content every month
• New design to facilitate searching for and displaying content