State Educational Technology Directors Association

With this grant, the State Educational Technology Directors Association would continue to advance the OER movement and institutionalize it in K-12 education, emphasizing the role of the states and state education agencies. By raising awareness and providing technical assistance, the organization will help states transform their policies to integrate digital resources and OER into their systems and processes.

This professional organization offers technical assistance to state education agencies. This grant would support ongoing efforts to raise awareness and build coalitions to advance and institutionalize OER in K-12 schools. B. Increased Learning Gains

This proposal addresses the need for a common digital data structure to support widespread use of materials being created in conjunction with the Common Core State Standards. The grantee would partner with the nation’s two assessment development consortia to ensure that their work can be implemented and sustained long-term and that U.S. Department of Education requirements are met. We would share the cost of this project with the Gates and Carnegie foundations.