User:Kfasimpaur

My name is Karen.

I have a keen interest in the area of open educational resources, particularly in elementary and secondary education (K-12).

As an introduction, I run a small educational technology company. I have worked in education, including software and textbook publishing, for over 15 years. I have also taught overseas in Africa. The confluence of this experience with the current state of technology and massive collaboration and with circumstances in my own life has led me to think seriously about devoting a large amount of my own time in the future to developing open educational resources.

The current state of OER in K-12 education strikes me as being at a very immature state of development, but the potential is enormous, particularly for the developing world. I am not sure of the best ways to apply my own skills to this pursuit, but I am in the process of talking to various people and reading a lot, which leads me to this space.