{"id":1519,"date":"2014-04-10T07:12:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T14:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2014-04-10T07:12:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T14:12:07","slug":"introducing-the-k-12-oer-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/1519","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the K-12 OER COP!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"K-12<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve been working for the last couple of months on a new project: a K-12 open educational resources (OER) online community of practice<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s not really done yet. In fact, it may never be done. Which makes unveiling it publicly a little scarey, but here we are.<\/p>\n

This project came out of a realization that while many in K-12 now know about OER, not that many are actually using it. As a believer in peer learning and support, I thought that an online place where teachers might collaborate on this could be helpful. (Along the way, a group of us debated whether the world needed one more online community<\/a> and other design issues, all of which was very helpful in thinking this through.)<\/p>\n

A premise for this project is that we’re hoping to provide utility for those who are just getting started with OER, not necessarily those already entrenched in using it. As such, you won’t find a lot of information on license nuances, repositories, metadata, interoperability, or similar issues. Instead, we’ve chosen to start with these areas:<\/p>\n