OER Stories

In Hong Kong, Lucy is getting ready for bed. She is thinking about her class tomorrow and realizing that she doesn't yet have have group exercises for her learning sciences class. She hops out of bed and turns on her computer and browses the web looking for appropriate content for her 5th grade class. She finds an amazing learning module about building global communities around climate change from a teacher in the US, and checks the Creative Commons copyright and sees that it is available to use and remix. She takes the section on structuring research questions, and cuts and pastes it into her notes. She gets back into bed, relieved, and falls asleep.