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GoOpen Fact Sheet

Enabling Innovation and Teacher Creativity through Open Licensed Educational Resources. The Department of Education's initiative to challenge states and school districts to begin replacing traditional textbooks with open licensed educational materials. The President’s ConnectED Initiative has provided millions of students and teachers access to nextgeneration broadband in their classrooms and libraries....

Keywords:: open textbooks, Open License Requirement, ConnectED, openly licensed educational resources, GoOpen, open educational resources, OER's, k-12 schools

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Academic Support Services / Open Education / About Open Education

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Material Type:: Reference Material
Date Added to MERLOT:: December 1, 2015
Date Modified in MERLOT:: February 16, 2017
Author:: Tech. Ed.gov/open, United States Department of Education
Submitter:: Sally Robertson
Primary Audience:: College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
Technical Format:: PDF

Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Language:: English
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Sally Robertson (Librarian)

10 years ago

This fact sheet about the GoOpen program tells about the benefits of using open textbooks/resources in K-12 education for both teachers and students. It also shows the importance of OER collections like MERLOT.

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