EdGate Supports Microsoft Education with Thousands of Educational Standards and OER
ab1630's bookmarks 2018-02-01
Summary:
"Microsoft Education has rolled out Education Resources, a source of standards-aligned K-12 Open Educational Resources (OER) within Office 365. Through an agreement with Microsoft, EdGate supplies links and metadata for carefully curated and vetted OER that have been aligned to national and international educational standards. Additionally, EdGate provides Microsoft with ongoing and constantly updated K-12 education standards.
Microsoft’s Education Resources allows educators to differentiate instruction by offering thousands of standards-aligned open educational resources. Subjects consist of Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Health and PE, World Languages, Arts Education, Media/Technology, and Career Technical Education. Standards are included for the U.S., Canada, Australia, England, New Zealand, and India...."