Open Educational Resources (OER) offer opportunities for increasing equity and access to high-quality K–12 education. To help states, districts, teachers, and other users determine the degree of alignment of OER to the Core State Standards and to determine aspects of the quality of OER, Achieve has developed eight rubrics in collaboration with leaders from the OER community. The Achieve OER rubric is the evaluation tool built into the eMedia platform, allowing any Utah educator to evaluate resources in the database. This PDF file explains the rubrics.

Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for a free and open webinar on Designing for Open Pedagogy. Open Pedagogy was first introduced by Lumen Learning co-founder David Wiley, as a way to capture how the use of OER can change educational practices. He relates that using OER in the same way as traditional textbooks is like driving an airplane down the road – it is missing out on what open can provide for student and teacher collaboration, engagement, and learning.

Suppose you’re designing an online course. How might you use Open Educational Resources (OER)? Let’s take a quick look at a common model for instructional design – the ADDIE model. (There are many others but this one is very common and useful for our discussion.)

The materials here were selected for ESOL learners who have intermediate-high intermediate writing skills and are starting more "academic" levels of course work in order to transition into college-level composition courses.

Professional development lessons intended to prepare teachers for the Praxis II test. In Part 2, Elementary Education: Content Area Exercises (Test #0012) and the

nature of constructed response tests are covered.

Professional development lessons intended to prepare teachers for the Praxis II test. English Part 01.

Professional development lessons intended to prepare teachers for the Praxis II test. English Part 02.

For more than 400 years, Shakespeare's 37 surviving plays, 154 sonnets, and other poems have been read, performed, taught, reinterpreted, and enjoyed the world over. This Teacher's Guide includes ideas for bringing the Bard and pop culture together, along with how performers around the world have infused their respective local histories and cultures into these works.

The OEL Toolkit is openly available and openly licensed. The guidance generated by the OEL Toolkit is of primary relevance to educators and developers working within Australian higher education institutions. The OEL Toolkit web application has been designed with a focus on ease of use. It provides relevant information for users seeking guidance on using, creating, modifying or sharing a specific Open Educational Resource.

In this episode of PDTV, the Professional Development team recaps their virtual UCET conference experience. They chat about the flexibility of the online format, the disadvantages of technical difficulties, and more!

On this virtual PDTV, Jared Fawson explains to viewers how using Canvas templates makes customizing your Canvas page easier than ever! From uploading your own images to Canvas-provided icons, Jared will guide you through making the course uniquely yours.

On this virtual PDTV, Jared Fawson brings colleague Katie Blunt in to talk about student engagement. While engaging tools and nifty websites are useful, they discuss how creating an engaging course or assignment starts before implementation.

In this virtual PDTV, Jared Fawson speaks to Cory Henwood from Iron County School District. Not only is he the district's Innovation Coordinator, but he is the founder of Launch High School, a personalized competency-based school. The goal of the school is to help students develop transferable skills and enable them to focus and grow their ideas.

In our first PDTV of the school year, Jared Fawson navigates the new normal of remote learning. He chats with Hollie Fisher from Lakeside Elementary in the Davis School District. She shares how she uses OneNote, Teams and more to help with 21st century learning and teaching!

On this episode of UEN PDTV, Dani Sloan and Katie Garrett from UEN go through some tech tools that help maximize time and keep things organized. Even if you are into the old-school method of writing notes down, they have a tech tool for you!

On this episode of UEN PDTV, Jami and Michael take us through the essentials of Adobe Rush, a video editing app. All Utah teachers have access to Adobe products and grades 7-12 have them in their schools. Learn more about what you can do with Adobe with UEN Professional Development!