[Open-education] [OER-advocacy] Adoption and implementation of K-12 core instructional materials [in US]

Sun Dec 20 19:08:29 UTC 2015

Hi all

Here is a key report from Karen Fasimpaur  at the K12 Open Ed group.

“The purpose of this project was to look at the adoption and implementation of K-12 core
instructional materials in math and English Language Arts (ELA) and to explore business models
for the successful and sustainable publishing of such open educational resource (OER) materials.”

For Karin’s blog posting see http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/2124

For earlier overview material on the Common Core and OER see the January 2015 report by Sara Frank Bristow on “The Common Core State Standards Initiative and its impact on OER” for the EU IPTS Project SharedOER at http://poerup.referata.com/wiki/The_Common_Core_State_Standards_Initiative_and_its_impact_on_OER

Paul

Paul Bacsich
Coordinator, Open Education Working Group - http://education.okfn.org/blog/
Senior Consultant, SeroHE

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From: Karen Fasimpaur 
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 5:35 PM
To: OER Advocacy Coalition 
Subject: [OER-advocacy] Adoption and implementation of K-12 core instructional materials

Over the last year, I've worked on a project to explore the adoption and implementation of K-12 core instructional materials and to look at business models for the successful and sustainable publishing of such open educational resource (OER) materials.

The final report on this is available here: http://www.k12opened.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/K12HH-Final-Report-Dec-2015.pdf

The report covers state and district adoption processes for K-12 core curriculum, considerations that are important to districts doing adoptions (particularly as it relates to OER publishers), attitudes toward OER, publishers’ perspectives on product and OER, information on business models for OER publishers, and recommendations to those in this market.

I appreciate everyone who participated in this project and the support of the Hewlett Foundation for this work.

Wishing everyone a happy holidays!

Regards, 

Karen Fasimpaur 

K12 Open Ed 
520-558-0180 
www.k12opened.com 
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