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E. OER... PAINTING THE FUTURE
Did you know that there is a wide variety of free curriculum on the internet? You will find a full color assortment ready for you as you begin to paint lessons, activities, and even a textbook! Take a moment to check out the wide assortment of possibilities that you can mix into brand new hues! 

 **The Index of Open Educational Resources** -(K-12) Open Educational Resources come in many shapes and sizes. This partial list of sources introduces the scope of OER and the organizations cultivating its increasingly vital role in opening higher education up to the greatest number of people worldwide.


 * Open Education Resources ** - (k-12) This network brings together 44,129 OER tools for sharing curriculum with the world and news and training on the brave new world of open education! This a must visit for all grades and interest since it taps into many OER resources.


 * My OER -** Wonderful place combining OER resources from some amazing people in the state of South Dakota. You will find all grade levels and subjects.

**North Carolina Lesson Plans** (k-12)- LEARN NC’s lesson plans span the wide range of curriculum areas for every grade from K to 12. Our collection includes the best instructional plans created by North Carolina educators as well as high-quality materials from state and national partners.


 * Curriki ** - (k-12) What happens when classroom teachers from every country in the world take part in a global community of sharing curriculum and best practices? Teachers are empowered to create extraordinary learning experiences for their students. Barriers to equal access to education begin to lift—geography and politics become immaterial. And the economy benefits from a highly educated population. That’s the basis of Curriki, a nonprofit K-12 global community for teachers, students, and parents to create, share, and find free learning resources that enable true personalized learning.They believe free and equal access to the best curriculum materials is possible and Curriki is leading the way

**Connexions** - (K-12) This a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, //etc//. Anyone may view or contribute:
 * **authors** create and collaborate
 * **instructors** rapidly build and share custom collections
 * **learners** find and explore content


 * Google In Education ** - (K-12) This is a place for lessons that work with many of the Google Tools. A great place for ideas at all grade levels.

**SmartHistory** -(K-12) Smarthistory at Khan Academy is the leading open educational resource for art history. They make high-quality introductory art history content freely available to anyone, anywhere. Smarthistory is a platform for the discipline where art historians contribute in their areas of expertise and learners come from across the globe. We offer nearly 500 videos and these are being translated into dozens of languages.


 * Khan Academy ** - (K-12) Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.

**Concord Consortium** - (2-12) Help your students learn with hundreds of interactive, research-based resources covering a huge variety of science, engineering, and math topics. Many activities let the teacher see assessment results after student completion of an activity, making alignment with lessons quick and easy.

**Moodle Share** - (2-12)MoodleShare is a community of Moodlers sharing their Moodles, Moodle Sites, and Moodle Lessons.


 * Moodle Exchange ** -(2-12) Shares Moodle courses and other content useful for Moodle teachers.

**FreeReading** (pk-3) is a free, high-quality, open-source reading program addressing literacy development for grades K-3. Leveraging the collective wisdom of researchers, teachers, reading coaches, and other education and industry professionals, FreeReading provides a high-quality, cost-effective alternative to static materials. By establishing a foundation of hundreds of research-based lessons and materials that users can download and use for free, FreeReading has created the framework for intervention programs supporting K-6 literacy. The collective wisdom within FreeReading is invaluable and can be more beneficial than any one reading program.


 * WikiJunior ** - (1-6) The aim of this project is to produce age-appropriate non-fiction books for children from birth to age 12. These books are richly illustrated with photographs, diagrams, sketches, and original drawings. Wikijunior books are produced by a worldwide community of writers, teachers, students, and young people all working together. The books present factual information that is verifiable. You are invited to join in and write, edit, and rewrite each module and book to improve its content. Our books are distributed free of charge under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.


 * Teaching Ideas Library ** - (K-8_ The Teaching Ideas Library contains ideas and resources for popular children's books. You will find activities, videos, and so much more.

**The Literature Network** - (6-12) They offer a searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the [|author index]. Currently there are over 3000 full books and over 4000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. The quotations database has over 8500 quotes.

[|**CK12.org**] - (6-12) Services like CK-12 make it easy for teachers to assemble their own textbooks. Content is mapped to a variety of levels and standards including common core. You can start from scratch or build from anything the the FlexBooks library. Read more > Watch video >

**Wisconsin Online Learning Objects** - (6-12) Learning objects add flexibility to the teaching and learning experience. Faculty use learning objects when teaching a basic concept, applying concepts in "real world" applications, checking and testing mastery, providing simulation, or giving remedial instruction.

**Vision Learning** - (6-12) This organization has developed a set of peer-reviewed materials for learning science including modular readings, interactive multimedia, and a glossary - all available for free on the web in both English and Spanish. In the readings, they emphasize science as a process, not just a collection of facts. These resources can be used individually by anyone and can also be combined and customized within online classrooms by teachers.


 * SAS Curriculum Pathways -** (6-12) Year after year, SAS Curriculum Pathways earns awards for educational technologies and, more importantly, earn the support of teachers, students, and parents. The approach is innovative, but the goals are traditional. Teachers, developers, designers, and other specialists clarify content in the core disciplines. SACS targets content difficult to convey with conventional methods—topics where doing and seeing provide information and encourage insights in ways that textbooks cannot. The products make learning more profound and efficient, not simply more entertaining. Audio, visual, and interactive components all reinforce the educational objectives identified by teachers


 * Georgia Virtual ** - (6-12) The content available on our Shared Resources Website is available for anyone to view. Courses are divided into modules and are aligned with the Georgia Performance Standards.


 * Open Source Physics Project ** - (6-12) Wide range of curriculum resources that involve and engage students in physics, computation, and computer modeling.


 * Open Tapestry ** - (7-12) Open Tapestry is all about discovering, adapting, and sharing learning resources, whether you're a teacher, an instructor, a professor, a corporate trainer, a learner, or just a curious mind!

**Hippocampus** - (7-12) This is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.

**NROC** - (7-12) The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) is a growing library of high-quality online course content for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement*. This has been paid for in the state of Indiana by the DOE.

**MERLOT** - (9-12) This site states a mission of putting Educational Innovations Into Practice. Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues. Be recognized for your contributions to quality education.


 * Open High School Of Utah ** - (9-12) The Open High School of Utah is a public charter school designed to meet the needs of the 21st century student. As an online school, it combine state of the art curriculum with strategic one-on-one instruction. The technology sets it apart. It is data-driven, providing real time information that instantaneously tracks the student and their performance. Unique to OHSU is their commitment to share the curriculum we have developed as an open educational resource.

**Open Course Library** - (9-12) A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs making it easy to access, browse and download.

**Textbook Revolution** -(9-12) A student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors.


 * Community College Consortium for OER ** - (9-12) The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) is a joint effort by individual community colleges, regional and statewide consortia, the Open Courseware Consortium, the American Association for Community Colleges, the League for Innovation in the Community Colleges, and many other educational partners to develop and use open educational resources, open textbooks, and open courseware to expand access to higher education and improve teaching and learning.

**Flat World Knowledge** - (9-12) Written by the industry's top authors, our textbooks are helping improve teaching and learning at more than 2,500 leading colleges and universities worldwide.

**California Learning Resource Network Digital Initiative** -(Research) Review results from all three phases of the Digital Textbook Initiative are listed separately in this report. Each link will take you to the full CLRN textbook review. While digital textbooks were reviewed for their alignment with the content standards, California's Social Content Review criteria were only applied during Phase Three. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of these books are reminded to conduct their own reviews to determine whether these resources meet their needs.