[Open-education] OER in Washington DC & San Jose, California

Sat Jan 31 21:26:29 UTC 2015

San Jose article:
http://www.mercurynews.com/News/ci_27429331/Goodbye-textbooks-hello-free-online-resources

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On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Cable Green <cable at creativecommons.org>
wrote:

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> *(1) *Front page of San Jose paper - see attached. (nice catch, TJ!)
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>    - *More schools are choosing free Web 'open educational resources,'
>    closing chapter for textbooks.*
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> *(2) *Washington DC: Department of Education: *Future Ready District
> Pledge: http://futurereadyschools.org/take-the-pledge
> <http://futurereadyschools.org/take-the-pledge>*
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>    - *Providing Access to Quality Digital Content.*
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>    - * Future Ready districts align, curate, create, and consistently
>       improve digital materials and apps used in the support of learning. Future
>       Ready districts use carefully selected high quality digital content that is
>       aligned to college and career ready standards as an essential part of daily
>       teaching and learning. Teachers are able to share, discover, and adapt
>       openly-licensed materials and teaching plans.*
>
> Good weekend,
>
> Cable
>
>
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