Open Educational Resources for K-12: A Mexican case study on the implementation of the Knowledge Hub website for educational resources to assist elementary education in Latin America.

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Mortera-Gutiérrez, F. (2010). Open Educational Resources for K-12: A Mexican case study on the implementation of the Knowledge Hub website for educational resources to assist elementary education in Latin America. In D. Gibson & B. Dodge (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (pp. 1563-1567). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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Conference Information

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (SITE) 2010
San Diego, CA, USA
March 29, 2010
ISBN 1-880094-78-9
  David Gibson & Bernie Dodge
AACE

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Fernando Mortera-Gutiérrez, Tecnológico de Monterrey, EGE, Mexico

Abstract

Currently Open Educational Resources (OERs) is one of the most important trends that are helping education through the Internet all over the world, and it is every day more used in many education institutions.“El Tecnológico de Monterrey” has developed an important educational initiative, named : “Knowledge Hub” (KHub). It is a search engine for open educational resources, which is available in the Internet (http://khub.itesm.mx/). Currently, KHub has develop an effort to document and gather open educational resources (OERs) for K-12 education in Spanish to assist teachers in Mexico and the rest of Latin American. This paper will present the best teaching practices on the use of Open Educational Resources through the Knowledge Hub academic search engine by K-12 teachers who participate in a qualitative study and project on the use of OERs for elementary education. The paper will comment and describe, also, how KHub has been working and its characteristics.

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