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Open Educational Resources (OER) Guide

Education

On this page you will find OER specific to education that include ebooks, lectures, videos, tutorials and other supplemental materials for use in your classroom or for independent learning, as well as other resources that educators and students of education might find useful. 

Ebooks

Teaching in a Digital Age: Guidelines for designing teaching and learning for a digital age (BCcampus)

"The book examines the underlying principles that guide effective teaching in an age when all of us, and in particular the students we are teaching, are using technology. A framework for making decisions about your teaching is provided, while understanding that every subject is different, and every instructor has something unique and special to bring to their teaching.The book enables teachers and instructors to help students develop the knowledge and skills they will need in a digital age: not so much the IT skills, but the thinking and attitudes to learning that will bring them success." 

Instruction in Functional Assessment (Open SUNY)

"Instruction in Functional Assessment introduces learners to functional assessment (FA), which includes a variety of assessment approaches (indirect, observational, and experimental) for identifying the cause of an individual’s challenging behavior for the purpose of designing effective treatments. FA is mandated by federal law and is a recognized empirically based approach to treatment of individuals with challenging behaviors (e.g., disruptive, self-injurious, and aggressive behaviors). Instruction in FA is essential for students who will one day enter professions as educators, psychologists, social workers, counselors, or mental health professionals."

Lectures, Tutorials, and Online Courses

AFIRM: Autism Focused Intervention Resources and Modules (National Professional Development Center)

These free, openly licensed learning modules are useful for working with individuals with autism. Free to sign up and use, you can browse and download modules designed to help you learn step-by-step processes for planning, using, and monitoring Evidence-Based Practices with ASD learners. 

Other Useful Resources

Education World: Connecting Educators to What Works

Education World is a website for teachers full of articles on education as well as lesson plans and activities that teachers can print out to use in their classrooms. The activities are designed to meet various educational standards and are primarily for grades K-12. 

K-6 Arts Lesson Plans

Dr. Cris Guenter and student teachers at California State University, Chico, upload new arts lesson plans to this website every semester. 

Teaching Like Its 2999

Educator Jennie Magiera uses her blog to share ideas with other educators and explain how she uses technology in her classroom to help students. 

Google for Education

Google provides a microsite just for teachers that includes links to valuable content and tools.

License

The resources used in this guide are released under Creative Commons Licenses.

This guide was adapted by Sarah Guy from the UNCG Guide "Open Educational Resources" by Beth Bernhardt. 

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