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“Free is good<\/a>” (Bethany Ray) – a recent Edutopia article – provides a nice explanation of OER (open educational resources) for the novice. The explanation argues the benefits of OER in contrast to commercial materials and suggests OER provides educators a way to find resources for individual student needs. Of course, the challenge with OER is finding the resources and the article does a nice job of identifying repositories that can be searched.<\/p>\n

A brief plug for my own work – I argue that online content and learning resources are not the same thing (see series beginning with this post<\/a>). Layering services (examples are explained in the series) enable educators to function as instructional designers and add components to information rich content to guide and support student learning.<\/p>\n

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