{"id":4773,"date":"2016-10-05T05:29:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T09:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/?p=4773"},"modified":"2020-10-01T13:47:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T17:47:32","slug":"where-to-find-oers-for-your-language-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2016\/10\/05\/where-to-find-oers-for-your-language-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to Find OERs for Your Language Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent higher education survey<\/a> lamented that many educators do not make use of Open Educational Resources (OERs). Surprising to me, however, were the main barriers cited by teachers: 48% of those polled noted they had \u201cdifficulty located the resources needed\u201d and 49% said there were \u201cnot enough resources for [their] subject\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"where<\/p>\n

I hope that this blog post will address both of those issues for foreign language teachers, because free, openly-available, and license-free resources open up endless opportunities for sharing and collaboration amongst teachers and districts. For example, after their newly developed curriculum helped an additional 51% of students pass the state math and English exams, Grandview School District in Washington now shares its curriculum as an OER<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cDoing so allows other districts to use such content without infringing copyright, and is part of the federal #GoOpen movement launched last year. Schools or states share materials through an open license, and encourage other district leaders to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not a unique case. Across 15 states, more than 60 school districts have volunteered to share resources, which are now compiled in Learning Registry<\/a>, a digital catalog of OERs. A quick search for \u201cforeign language\u201d in the registry spit out more than 28,000 results!<\/p>\n

Of course, there\u2019s a lot out there beyond the registry:<\/p>\n