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State of the States: Open Educational Resources in K-12 education
Cadran, Amanda

PublishedNovember 2014
PeriodicalPages 1-28
PublisherCouncil of Chief State School Officers
CountryUnited States, North America

ABSTRACT
The implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) will create new opportunities for states to collaborate and leverage investments of public funds around materials, resources, and professional development related to digital content that can be more freely accessed, used and shared across states.

Several states expressed an interest to the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) in exploring the development and dissemination of this digital content in the form of open educational resources (OER), which are teaching materials licensed for free use and repurposing. In response to that interest, CCSSO conducted a survey of states in May 2014 to collect information about the current 'state of the states' as it relates to OER. This report highlights those results and provides examples of ongoing work related to OER. This report also strives to inform and connect those chiefs and senior level state education agency (SEA) staff interested in OER to encourage cross-state understanding and collaboration with the potential to both share content and resources in this space.

Keywords Common Core State Standards · K-12 · OER policy · OER research · OER survey

Published atWashington, DC
RefereedDoes not apply
Rightsby/4.0
URLhttp://www.ccsso.org/Resources/Digital_Resources/State_of_the_States_Open_Educational_Resources_in_K-12_Education.html
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