Moving to the Cloud
Moderator: Kevin Hogan
@andycinek
Andrew Marcinek Chief Information Officer, Worcester Academy
Former Chief Open Education Advisor, U.S. Department of Education
Author of The 1:1 Roadmap: Setting the course for innovation in education
Why Open Educational Resources? Why Now?
2011: One To One iPad
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Replace 12 Textbooks with OER
The Goal
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The Pain Points
•Infrastructure
•Curation
•Time @andycinek
#GoOpen● Identify a district #GoOpen team who
will work to develop a strategy for the implementation of openly-licensed educational materials.
● Commit to replace at least one textbook with openly-licensed educational materials in the next year.
● Document and share their implementation process.
Where do we begin?
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1. Set Goals and Organize your planning Team
2. Determine and assess Infrastructure 3. Ensure quality and equity 4. Design professional learning
Questions for Audience
Questions for Audience
Mike JamersonDirector of TechnologyBartholomew Consolidated School Corporation
Fitting the Pieces Together
LMS CMS
Publisher Materials
OER
Universal Design for Learning and BCSC
Resources
Tools
Practices
UDL
Getting to 90%
Understand the needs of
your instructional framework
Provide Support –
both PD and Instructional
Make it the mall
“Burn the ships”
1 2 3 4
Addressing Privacy➢ CoSN – Trusted Learning Environment
➢ CoSN – Protecting Privacy in Connected Learning
➢ Massachusetts Student Data Privacy Alliance
Questions for Audience
www.natickps.orgNatick Public Schools
Grace Magley, Director of Digital Learning
Courses that include OER for Natick Teachers:
● Online Module for OER that teachers can get PDPs for.
● Teaching, Learning and Innovation graduate course - 3 credits.
● Creating Blended Curriculum Units, Lesson on OER - Graduate course - 3 credits
● Designing REAL Project Based Learning - Graduate course 3 credits
http://blendinmass.org● Blended Learning
● Personalized Learning
● Open Educational Resources○ Graces List of OER’s
Questions for Audience