Amplifying the Voice of Teachers: Reforming Curriculum

Teachers and professors have a long history of creating their own lesson plans, assignments and learning activities. Now, online “open education resources,” or OERs, and other shared teaching materials in the public domain are gaining popularity. That means educators from the elementary level through the university level are reshaping curriculum and instruction, allowing for amplification of the voices of educators. These accessible and (often free) licensed materials have transformed many educators’ course content and pedagogy. Instructors can now plan learning through collaboration and information sharing, rather than by traditional means. What are the implications of this vast new curricular resource? Are these tools too individualized to be useful on a large scale? Are issues, such as personalization and collaboration, being overshadowed by intellectual property concerns? How will professional learning standards and state achievement testing be affected? What are the pros and cons of expanded teacher efficacy?

Panel Moderator:  Jamie Atkinson, MSU College of Education

Panel Producer:  Courtney Pham, MSU College of Business

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