This course will explore how a variety of open educational resources (OERs) can be used in K-12 classrooms.

Target audience: U.S. K-12 educators

Prerequisite knowledge/skills:

• Solid knowledge of your grade level and subject curriculum and standards
• Basic knowledge of integrating technology into the classroom (some use of Web 2.0 tools, multimedia, etc.)
• Willingness to share work you have created with others

Course dates: Sept. 26- Nov. 4, 2011 (6 weeks)

Course commitments:

Participants should be willing to:

• Share, learn, and teach as a part of this peer learning course
• Commit to spend 4-6 hours a week on this course (Most of the time will be asynchronous, but there will be 2-3 optional webinars. They will also be archived for later viewing.)
• Share at least one resource you have created under an open license

Course goals:

After this course, participants will:

• Understand open licenses and be able to identify OERs
• Be familiar with a variety of OER sites suitable to their own grade level and subject ara
• Know how to remix OERs into formats most suitable to their student learning needs
• Be able to publish and share their own work under open licenses

Full course syllabus here.

Course developer/facilitator:

Karen Fasimpaur is an enthusiastic user of OER in K-12 classrooms. She works with teachers to help integrate, remix, and share open-licensed curriculum to engage students and differentiate instruction. Prior to this work, Karen was an educational multimedia producer, a textbook developer, and a teacher.

In other pursuits, Karen is a writer, cook, and carpenter. She lives in a remote part of the desert southwest in an off-the-grid (solar) house.