Printer-friendly versionCasserly's Vision is Harnessing the Power of the Internet
Esther Wojcicki blogs for the Huffington Post: Open Education Resources (OER) just got a big boost this weekend. Long time OER champion Dr. Catherine Casserly was just elected to the Board of Directors of Creative Commons to help provide further direction for the Open Education Resources movement worldwide. For those of you who never heard of Open Educational Resources (OER), let me explain. In brief, OER is high quality learning materials that are freely available for use, remixing and redistribution; the name was first adopted by UNESCO in 2002.
Casserly's vision for OER has always been first to level the playing field to make knowledge and educational materials available to all and second to improve teaching and learning by continually collecting evidence about what works for what students in what context and making that evidence openly available. Casserly who is now a Senior Partner at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching says they seek to use OER to improve outcomes for community college students in developmental mathematics. "Once we can link OER with data and evidence, and quickly iterate, we can truly harness the power of the internet for learning, " Casserly said.
