digital-OER

New tools emerge to support schools’ digital transition


Knovation’s icurio delivers open educational resources (OER) and instructional tools to support personalized and engaging digital learning

digital-OERSchool districts across the country are replacing print textbooks with free open educational resources (OER); however, many are finding it difficult to evaluate the quality and relevancy of these unlimited online resources.

A number of service providers are releasing resources to support the growing number of districts shifting from print to digital content as they implement one-to-one or blended learning environments.

One such solution comes from Knovation’s icurio suite of personalized learning solutions. icurio helps educators find and organize digital resources while designing and delivering personalized instruction in blended learning environments.

Next page: How icurio helps educators find high-quality digital content

 

The solution aims to streamline access to high-quality digital content by helping educators:
• Find content from more than 360,000 digital learning resources that are standards-aligned and vetted by experts, providing dynamic and engaging learning opportunities for all students.
• Collect and organize digital resources through visual mapping tools, leverage rich topic-based collections curated by a team of curriculum experts and share resources at multiple levels within their own school organization.
• Build lessons that easily blend powerful digital learning resources with their own instructional design when managing lesson details, lesson content and student activities.
• Engage students through self-directed learning and personalized feedback at the point of learning.

“We are very excited about the new version of icurio and think it will really benefit our teachers and students,” said Scott Smith, chief technology officer at Mooresville Graded School District. “Our teachers are already infusing icurio into their classrooms and are really embracing how it enables them to find high-quality digital content and build and deliver more engaging, more personalized lessons. While we have been 1:1 for many years, the new version of icurio is helping us continue to push even farther toward our goal of reaching every child, every day.”

Each of the more than 360,000 resources in Knovation’s resource library is curated, contextualized, and certified to be learning-ready after passing through a 127-point certification process used by Knovation’s curriculum content experts.

“We understand that digital transformation is a process, and the approach to this process looks different in every district,” said Randy Wilhelm, CEO of Knovation. “The new icurio is just one of the many ways in which Knovation provides quality resources to answer the question, ‘what goes on the device and how will I teach with it?’ from educators in the midst of a 1:1 or blended learning initiative.”

Material from a press release was used in this report.

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