Instructional Materials and Promising Practices

OER: Instructional Materials and Promising Practices for Teachers

As the instructional materials landscape changes, educators are seeking resources and promising practices to maximize and optimize student learning. Open Educational Resources (OER) are materials that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. They have the potential to engage teachers more fully in curricula, allowing them to customize content to their students’ needs and help them reach college and career readiness. How can schools successfully incorporate OER into their instructional materials strategy