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Teaching OER Math

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Reviewed:: Mar 15, 2020 by Teacher Education

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Overview:

The focus of this website is to help in the transition from a paper oriented environment to one using OER materials with an emphasis in elementary and secondary school mathematics. The website's material is divided into five major topics: 1. Why OER materials? 2. The learner's environment - a world in change. 3. Mathematics past and present. 4. Exploring OER materials and 5. International mathematics education developments. An emphasis has been placed on linking to other OER materials to cover and expand on each topic.

Type of Material:

Collection

Recommended Uses:

This website could be used in a variety of ways including as an entire course simply by implementing the questions provided for each topic. Could also be a self-paced course or used as lecture material, group work or assignments for teachers in training.

Technical Requirements:

The website and materials are browser based. Some activities require Adobe Flash.

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Target Student Population:

College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

Maths subject knowledge
Computer skills to navigate this page

Content Quality

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Strengths:

It's very clear that these are OER (CC) resources

The material has been curated and links to some relevant sites, such as KhanAcademy

Content is clearly laid out around a specific topic

This website is very comprehensive including links to resources that meet the needs of learners K - 12.

Concerns:

The resources seem to be of good quality.

Very plain site

Some links are to wikis where there is linked Quality Control

Very North American Centric

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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Strengths:

The website is effective in providing an in-depth look at using OER to teach math. The site can be used as a whole or in part in a variety of situtations from the classroom to professional development. When reviewing, all links appeared to work.

Concerns:

To work well, the teacher would benefit just signposting the student to the linked website rather than to tis page.

Some sections have no links connecting to them

A brief (one word summary) of each web link would help the user decide if it's suitable to click on

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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Strengths:

Easy to navigate

minimalist layout

The web page is very sparse

Shows when the page was last updated

The website is very easy to navigate, simply a linear list of topics, resources, and questions which can be remixed or reused under the CC attribution.

Concerns:

Adobe Flash resources although not present on this website, do exist at some links and might not be usable by those with a MAC OS.

Other Issues and Comments:: This website could fairly easily be adapted to create a Teaching OER course for other disciplines besides math.
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