Quote of the Day – RE: Quality online education material

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“Online resources are overflowing, but reliable means to evaluate them and help teachers use them are rare.”

Lawrie Mifflin in The Hechinger Report’s “How to sort the good from the bad in OER” (OER means Open Education Resources)(Note: this is particularly problematic in Kentucky where the school council in each school is responsible to independently select such material. The council members often lack expertise and especially the massive amount of time required to sift wheat from chaff in online educational media)