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from the dipping-in-your-toe dept.

Lawrence, Kansas' L/World reports [ljworld.com]

Several district administrators and teachers participated in a conference on [Open Knowledge] material in education [the week of February 22] as the district prepares to roll out its first class using only [Open Knowledge] sources.

The conference was part of a U.S. Department of Education campaign, #GoOpen, to encourage states, school districts, and educators to use openly licensed educational materials. In October, it was announced that the Lawrence school district was one of 10 districts nationwide to take up the #GoOpen challenge to replace at least one textbook with openly licensed educational resources within the year.

Angelique Nedved, assistant superintendent of teaching and learning, is one of the district administrators involved in the #GoOpen effort. Nedved previously said [ljworld.com] that the district already has about 20 courses that use openly licensed resources to some degree, but no course curriculum that relies entirely on such content.

District administrators have since selected seventh-grade English language arts as the subject area for the #GoOpen initiative, according to the USDE Office of Educational technology website. The goal is to launch the subject as the district's first to use entirely openly licensed material next school year.

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