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Share My Lesson - Free K-12 Resources By Teachers, For Teachers. Free Online Classes - 10,000+ Courses on Open Education Database. Written by: Thomas Broderick Universities, colleges, and private organizations offer free online college courses to help students acquire new knowledge and skills. These courses cover a variety of traditional academic topics and other subjects that can lead to career advancement and personal enrichment. Courses occur online, allowing learners from all over the world to participate. At the end of a course, students may qualify for an official certificate. Some institutions charge a small certificate fee. Featured Online Programs Most online courses provide an introduction to a topic, although there are some intermediary and advanced courses.

Some free college courses use the term massive online open course (MOOC). Benefits of Open Courses Free online college courses allow students to learn from home, a significant advantage for learners who prefer to eliminate a commute. In a free college course, learners can explore new academic topics without incurring high tuition costs. Open Courses FAQ. OpenEd. Maine Open Educational Resources (OER) Grant. What are Open Educational Resources (OER)? Open Educational Resources (OER) are online resources that are open and free for teachers and families to use. OER can be used to help students/children achieve and learn, as well as provide families with activities and ideas to help their children learn or reinforce at home the concepts they are learning in school.

There are lots of websites to help families to support the emotion, physical, and academic growth of their child. Why are OER Important? OER come in a variety of formats. Some may come in game form to help a child better understand a concept or it may be a video, lesson plan or idea for a family activity. These resources can help families join in creative learning activities with their child, and make learning a family affair!

Links to Other Subject Area Final OER See photos from the workshop "Responding to Teacher Needs: A Wishlist for World Language Education" at the FLAME annual conference March 4, 2011 The OER Project: New! Open Educational Resources. In January, 2010, the Maine Department of Education awarded the Maine Alliance for Arts Education a grant to support the identification and encourage the use of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in the Visual and Performing Arts. OERs are free on-line or digitized materials that may be used by students and teachers for educational purposes. You can learn more about OERs here .

MAAE's grant was one of nine subject area grants funded through Title IID Enhancing Education through Technology - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Competitive Grant monies. Throughout 2010 MAAE worked with a talented group of teachers to identify resources and link them to Maine's Parameters for Essential Instruction for the Arts. Our team identified a myriad of exciting and useful types of resources including lesson plans, student interactives, tutorials for arts based tools, videos and more. This continues to be a work in process. OER Commons. Open Course Frameworks: Lowering the Barriers to OER Adoption. I’ve been fairly quiet recently about Lumen Learning, the “RedHat for OER” I founded earlier this year with Kim Thanos. Lumen (for short) is where I’m spending my Shuttleworth Fellowship time, with the goal of drastically increasing the use of OER in formal educational settings in order to lower the cost and improve the quality of education.

Today Lumen released its first six Open Course Frameworks. Open Course Frameworks are an idea I am very excited about, because they greatly simplify the process of adopting OER for the average teacher or institution. Open Course Frameworks are: curated collections of OER,mapped to learning outcomes,openly licensed with detailed attribution,organized in a way that looks and feels like an online course,published on open source platforms, andcompatible with Lumen’s ImprovOER continuous quality improvement service (which we are publicly showing for the first time at InstructureCon in a few weeks).

200 Free Kids Educational Resources: Lessons, Apps, Books, Websites... This col­lec­tion pro­vides a list of free edu­ca­tion­al resources for K‑12 stu­dents (kinder­garten through high school stu­dents) and their par­ents and teach­ers. This page is being updat­ed and cleaned up dur­ing the COVID-19 cri­sis. Please tell us if we’re miss­ing some­thing valu­able.

Below you will find free video lessons/tutorials; free mobile apps; free audio­books, ebooks and text­books; qual­i­ty YouTube chan­nels; free for­eign lan­guage lessons; test prep mate­ri­als; and free web resources in aca­d­e­m­ic sub­jects like lit­er­a­ture, his­to­ry, sci­ence and com­put­ing. Home School­ing Resources Dur­ing COVID-19 Amaz­ing Edu­ca­tion­al Resources: A spread­sheet of 300+ edu­ca­tion com­pa­nies offer­ing free sub­scrip­tions due to school clos­ings. Free Audio Books, eBooks and Text­books Free Audio Books: Our col­lec­tion of 450 free audio books includes many chil­dren’s clas­sics. For­eign Lan­guages Video Lessons/Tutorials Art & Visu­al Cul­ture (Web Resources)

K-12. TED-Ed | Lessons Worth Sharing. EverFi – The Critical Skills Company - EverFi. Flat_World Knowledge. DiscoverEd. Encyclopedia of Life - Animals - Plants - Pictures & Information. HippoCampus - Homework and Study Help - Free help with your algebra, biology, environmental science, American government, US history, physics and religion homework. Connexions. Curriki.

MERLOT. Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine. Online: Curriculum Resources. Find detailed information about thousands of teaching materials for K-12 math and science. Comprehensive catalog records describe each item in this database.

Search Use a search engine and different terms to locate materials for your math and science classes. ENC collects and describes thousands of resources from hundreds of organizations and publishers. Browse Use ENC's carefully chosen subject terms to locate materials in the collection. Resource of the Day Each weekday, ENC highlights one valuable resource from our extensive collection of teaching and professional development materials. About Curriculum Resources Learn about the ENC collection in detail, see a list of resource vendors, and find frequently asked questions. Free Online Courses | Online Learning Hub. Open High School OpenCourseWare. LEARN NC. Tennessee Curriculum Center. LeMill Web Community. WebQuest.Org: Home.