#GoOpen Districts

The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) continues to support the #GoOpen Initiative and work to advance broad and open access to high-quality instructional materials in states and districts that choose to explore and expand the use of openly licensed educational resources (OER). CCSSO believes that open educational resources (OER) can lead to deeper, more personalized learning because they can be flexibly adapted and shared to meet a diversity of student needs. OER should be held to the same high standard of other instructional materials and evaluated using the same criteria. In order for district leaders and teachers to make informed decisions about how to use and adapt OER, we believe that it is essential that they deeply understand state standards and learning progressions to ensure pedagogical coherence and equitable learning experiences for all students. Therefore, CCSSO will continue to:

• Work with #GoOpen states to document their implementation strategies by developing case studies, articles, and blog posts that highlight promising state practices.
• Develop technical assistance resources to support #GoOpen state needs, particularly as it pertains to high-quality instructional strategies, standards alignment, and professional learning.
• Host and promote free webinars to spotlight the work of #GoOpen state leaders and open education issues, such as OER, research, open educational practice and curriculum.

As a #GoOpen supporting organization, COERLL will:

• Advise by email and phone school districts whose language departments are interested in creating, adapting, adopting, or sharing OER.
• Advocate for more OER adoption and #GoOpen participation in Texas.
• Award digital badges to validate and promote the stories of language departments in #GoOpen districts who have used OER, through COERLL’s Language OER Network and other communication channels.
• Develop and share an FAQ guide for language departments interested in going open.
• If possible, provide teachers access to COERLL’s professional development events.

As a #GoOpen supporting organization, CC-USA will:

• Host online educational and training opportunities around copyright questions, potential challenges with procurement, and other legal considerations during the creation and adoption phases of open education.
• Attend in-person meetings and GoOpen Summits to engage and troubleshoot with practitioners.
• Develop targeted, shareable resources aimed at problem-solving challenges for states and districts, as well as defining best practices and addressing common misconceptions.
• Assist with general efforts to organize and expand the GoOpen network.

As a #GoOpen supporting organization, Digital Promise will:

• Send a representative to present at a #GoOpen Regional Summit.
• Host and promote free webinars to spotlight open education issues (e.g. OER, research, open
  educational practice) as they connect with the work of Digital Promise.
• Support the curation of classroom resources to foster States and districts the use of OER assets.
• Author articles and blog posts about #GoOpen and/or open education topics of interest.

As a #GoOpen supporting organization, the Library of Congress will:

• • Alert our Teaching With Primary Sources consortium members to the #GoOpen Initiative, and ensure that the curriculum materials they create and the professional learning opportunities they present are, and are promoted as, OER.
  • Author posts about #GoOpen for our Teaching with the Library of Congress blog at http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers.

As a #GoOpen supporting organization, New America will:

• • • Author and/or support the development of articles and blog posts about #GoOpen and open education topics of interest.
    • Document State and district #GoOpen and open education work through ongoing research and case studies, and sharing that information through future events.
    • Present ongoing writing and research to states and districts through #GoOpen Regional Summits, open education events, and other opportunities for professional learning.

As a #GoOpen supporting organization, SETDA will:

• • • Continue to collaborate with Counsel of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the Office Educational Technology (OET) to support the regular state #GoOpen online meetings to provide the opportunity to collaborate, learn and share regularly.
    • Continue to gather details and report on state policies and practices in support of OER and #GoOpen including via our various instructional materials resources including the Digital Instructional Materials Acquisition for States (dmaps.setda.org), the Guide to Quality Instructional Materials (qualitycontent.setda.org) and via our annual Navigating the Digital Shift report. We will work with OET and state leaders to ensure that the content and information is valuable to stakeholders.
    • Provide regular updates to our full membership regarding #GoOpen initiatives via our newsletter and social media as appropriate.
    • Provide OET the opportunity to meet in-person with state leaders as a part of our annual convenings. During these meetings, OET may choose to discuss #GoOpen and other efforts supporting OER.

As a #GoOpen supporting organization, The Learning Accelerator will:

• • • Investigate OER practice in classroom and system settings and capture and share 
promising strategies emerging from the field on OER implementation with the #GoOpen community.
    • Author and/or support the guest authoring of articles and blog posts about #GoOpen and 
open education topics of interest to be featured on TLA web sites.