09/10/2025 | News release | Distributed by Public on 09/10/2025 11:51
Kelly Arispe, a professor of Spanish and School for the Digital Future launch director, recently published her paper "The Impact of Professional Development on K-12 Teacher Awareness, Use, and Perceptions of OER" in The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning.
Arispe and her co-authors, who included World Languages Resource Center Director Amber Hoye, followed K-12 teachers engaged with a Pathways Project repository of 900 world languages activities. They found that teachers valued open educational resources, but require professional development to make the most use of them.
This research was made possible thanks to a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement Grant that allowed the team to work with K-12 teachers across the state of Idaho.