Freedom Learning Group has partnered with Instructure to launch MissionOER™, an innovative program that deploys U.S. military spouses to scale development of high quality digital OER courseware, based on industry best practices, published under an open license, and available for educators to use, repurpose, and share directly from Instructure’s Canvas Learning Management Platform.
MissionOER™
Open. Accurate.
A full course catalog fueled by U.S. Military Spouse educators.
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Open Educational Resources are used in over half of U.S. Colleges and Universities.
MissionOER will provide institutions with fully developed, accurate, peer reviewed, comprehensive courses.
Openly licensed.
No strings attached.
Freedom Learning Group's MissionOER™ Course Catalog will provide courses that are:
- 100% Accuracy checked & peer reviewed
- Built by teams of U.S. Military Spouse subject matter experts & educators
- Complete with instructional content, assignments, rubric, discussions, quiz banks, and video lectures.
How to Partner with the MissionOER™ Program
Institutional Partners provide thought leadership, constructive critique, and innovative direction that drives development efforts in future course builds.
Freedom Learning Group relies heavily on the support and guidance from Institutional Partners to ensure the MissionOER™ program targets the highest quality OER content, aligned with the industry's greatest emerging needs, and tailored to meet the broadest coverage while furthering the philanthropic goals of the OER movement.
In 2020 Freedom Learning Group will launch courses in STEM, computer and data science, accounting and finance, and business, along with other high demand, high job growth disciplines.
How to Sponsor the MissionOER™ Program
All MissionOER™ Courses are developed by U.S. Military Spouses during instructional design internships, sponsored by program partners in the DoD and other generous organizations.
As a for-profit educational content and services provider, Freedom Learning Group is able to host instructional design internships of military spouse educators that produce courses for the MissionOER™ course catalog. Military spouse internships are sponsored through partnerships with the Department of Defense, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and other generous organizations invested in empowering military spouses in their educational career fields and improving the quality of OER.
The MissionOER™ Course Catalog & Release Schedule
MissionOER Courses will be designed, created, and accuracy reviewed by subject matter experts as part of 13 individual instructional design internship cohorts in 2020
2020
Cohort 1 & 2
Content Focus:
Starting January
2020
Cohort 5
Content Focus:
Data Science
Starting April
2020
Cohort 3
Content Focus:
Accounting
Starting February
2020
Cohort 6
Content Focus:
STEM
Starting May
2020
Cohort 4
Content Focus:
Finance
Starting March
2020
Cohort 7
Content Focus:
Business
Management
Starting June
2020
Cohort 8
Content Focus:
Computer
Science & IT
Starting July
2020
Cohort 11
Content Focus:
TBD*
Starting November
2020
Cohort 9
Content Focus:
Social Responsibility
Starting August
2020
Cohort 12
Content Focus:
TBD*
Starting November
2020
Cohort 10
Content Focus:
TBD*
Starting September
2020
Cohort 13
Content Focus:
TBD*
Starting December
*Content focus is determined based on ongoing guidance from our corporate sponsors and program partners based on gaps in existing/available OER content in order to accomplish the most good, for the most students, in the most relevant job growth industries.
"As a biochemist and technical writer, being unable to find work in my field and being unemployed overseas with a master’s degree has been a sobering consequence of being a military spouse. Through the MissionOER program I'm able to contribute to the education industry while continuing my professional development at multiple levels.”
- Mariah Covington, intern instructional designer of the MissionOER™ program’s first cohort.
