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U.S. Department of Education. (2015, October 29). U.S. Department of Education launches campaign to encourage schools to #GoOpen with educational resources. Retrieved from http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-launches-campaign-encourage-schools-goopen-educational-resources
Summary: This press release from the U.S. Department of Education announces a new campaign: #GoOpen that aims to expand educational access to openly licensed materials. The move builds upon other trends of open government, but with an emphasis on empowering educators in particular to be able to “find, adapt, create, and share resources” on their own, while respecting copyright. More information about #GoOpen is available at:http://tech.ed.gov/open-education/
Evaluation: This news story is one that I am close to since my school district is one of the ten cohort districts that will be taking on the challenge to “replace at least one textbook with openly licensed educational resources within the next year.” Information regarding this has not been distributed widely within my district, but I was aware that our Superintendent and Director of Instructional Technology traveled last week to Washington D.C. Also, there was recently a form sent to teachers to solicit interest in participating as part of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. I submitted interest, but have not yet heard an update. After reading more about this project, though, I have now written to my district Teacher Librarian colleagues to encourage them to also become familiar with the initiative. I think that this is a critical opportunity for TLs to collaborate as partners in curriculum development, and I have added this as an agenda item to our next district Library Council meeting so that we may inquire with the Director of Instructional Technology regarding ways we may be able to contribute and participate.
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