Oregon High Schools Log On to Online Media
by Dave Nagel
The Oregon Department of Education late last month signed on with
the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education to receive course
materials online, including podcasts, streaming video and audio, and
textual materials. Through the deal, some 205 high schools in the
state, representing about 125,000 high school students, now have access
to the materials through the agency's servers and through
HippoCampus.org.
Through the deal, ODE has obtained a statewide license for 33
courses in the National Repository of Online Courses. The repository
(NROC) is an "open educational resource project" of the Monterey
Institute, providing an online library of courses for students and
teachers in algebra, United States history, biology, American
government, physics, environmental science, calculus, and other topics.
These resources are already publicly available through HippoCampus.org,
by ODE, through its agreement, will also have access to "additional
resources, services, and secure assessments," according to the Monterey
Institute.
For its particular deployment, ODE integrated the NROC content
through its open-source learning/content management system, Moodle. The
agency is in the process of providing training for educators on the use
of the tools.
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