EVALUATING OER QUALITY – A CLOSER LOOK
Open Education Conference 2013
OSPI OER PROJECT
Barbara SootsDigital Learning Department
Office of Superintendent of Public [email protected]
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POTENTIAL ROADBLOCKS
Finding target resources
Access and security issues
District policies that don’t recognize OER as an option
Evaluating quality and alignment
“The legislature finds the state's recent adoption of Common Core K-12 standards provides an opportunity to develop a library of high-quality, openly licensed K-12 courseware that is aligned with these standards.”
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WASHINGTON K-12 OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES PROJECT
WHY REVIEW OER?
Help educators select high quality materials
Provide information for materials adoptions
Identify gaps in Common Core alignment
digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer
WHAT OER TO REVIEW?
Unlimited access and redistribution
Permission to adapt
Defined content area and grade band scope
OVERVIEW OF RESOURCES
CCSS Worksheet
Publishers’ Criteria
EQuIP Rubrics
Achieve OER Rubrics
Reviewers Comments
HOW TO EVALUATE QUALITY?
Math: 5-9 hours per curriculumEach reviewer assigned 3-4 math courses
ELA: 3-5 hours per unitEach reviewer assigned 8 units
30-40 hours total effort
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EVALUATION TIMEFRAME
Focus strongly where the standards focus
Coherence: Think across grades and link to major topics within grades
Rigor: In major topics, pursue with equal intensity: conceptual understanding, procedural skill, and application
COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS: Big Shifts in Math
Building content knowledge through content-rich nonfiction
Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational
Regular practice with complex text and its academic language
COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS: Big Shifts in ELA
OER REVIEW REPORT
https://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer/review/2013/report/OSPI_OER_Report_2013.pdf
“CCSS aligned OER are emerging platforms for mathematics curricula. They show significant promise as a viable selection in the future but are still evolving and not yet mature.”
“Educators can reliably consider many of the OER ELA units that were reviewed for use in their classroom and be confident that the units can be reasonably adapted to meet the CCSS…”
NEXT STEPS
Grant program for adaptation and/or implementation ofreviewed material
Request for Proposals
New OER review cycleGeometry/Integrated Math 29th-10th grade ELA units
Share metadata about quality resourcesLearning Registry
Establish commonalities in defining qualityAchieve Student Achievement Partners
Work towards giving educators a deeper understanding of who owns copyright and encourage open licensing
CONSIDERATIONS FOR WIDE-SCALE SHARING OF RESOURCES
WA OER Review results and library of materials: http://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer/library/
Full report from 2013 review: http://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer/review/2013/report/summary.php
OER Communication Toolkit: https://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer/resources.php
EQuIP: http://www.achieve.org/EQuIP
Achieve OER: http://achieve.org/oer-rubrics
Student Achievement Partners Achieve the Core: http://www.achievethecore.org/
CCSS Publisher’s Criteria: http://www.corestandards.org/resources
Washington law re: OER: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=28A.300.803
Achieve OER Policy Brief:http://www.achieve.org/files/OERInstitutePolicyBriefFINAL1.pdf
RESOURCES
OSPI OER Website: http://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer
Twitter: waOSPI_OER
Email: [email protected]
CONTACT INFORMATION
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