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Welcome to the Global Text Project | Global Text Project OER Commons Wikiversity Find OpenCourseWare with OCW Search Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities Educators Can Save Time When They Stop Reinventing the Wheel with OER Since my early days of teaching I always wondered why hundreds of thousands of teachers across the globe were working in isolation to deliver the same classes to their students. If teachers everywhere were teaching English 1, World History, Algebra 1, Poetry, etc., why were they all writing their own lessons, searching for their own resources and materials? Hasn’t this all been done thousands of times before? The answer is yes, it has, and requiring teachers to waste their time writing lesson plans that already exist and search for resources that have already been found numerous times before is a colossal waste of time. As I entered into the world of teaching I found something very disturbing and that was that many teachers preferred doing business in isolation, behind closed doors. Until now… If you haven’t heard, there is a new movement in education and it’s called OER which stands for Open Educational Resources.

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