Oregon Virtual School District: Free Tools for Oregon Teachers
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See how the State of Oregon is using open source tools to help K-12 teachers in Oregon.
Description
Learning can’t be bound by borders like the walls of a classroom or the boundaries of a school district. The Oregon Virtual School District is an online library of tools for teachers. It allows teachers and students to extend their capabilities beyond what was imaginable just a few years ago.
Begun in 2006 as a partnership between the Oregon Department of Education and Oregon State University, the Oregon Virtual School District now supports in excess of 250 schools and 17,000 students and teachers throughout Oregon. The ORVSD uses a variety of open source tools to fulfill its mission of increasing the adoption of technology in Oregon’s classrooms. This session will cover the “how” and “why” of the technology that runs the Oregon Virtual School District.
Tags
education, moodle, Drupal, K-12, Oregon
Speaker
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Greg Lund-Chaix
OSU Open Source Lab- Website: http://osuosl.org/
- Blog: http://blogs.osuosl.org/gchaix
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Biography
Greg has spent the last 15 years working on various telecommunications and distance education projects within the State of Oregon. Greg’s current project is building online teaching and learning tools for the Oregon Department of Education’s Oregon Virtual School District project.