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ZTC Gap Analysis: High Wage, High Demand Fields
With Spark Grant funding from the Michelson 20MM Foundation, ISKME conducted a study to explore planned Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) degrees and certificates across the Bay Area's community colleges, and the overlap with projected high wage, high demand fields. The study ...
Advancing an Ecosystem for OER in Texas Higher Education – Biennial Report 2021
This report presents the results of a biennial independent survey commissioned by the Digital Higher Education Consortium of Texas (DigiTex), in collaboration with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), to examine the landscape of Open Educational...
Open Educational Resources Fill Gap for Underserved Students
During the past decade, the idea of education as a 21st-century civil rights issue has surged. Many of our nation's public schools that serve large numbers of low-income communities frequently face funding challenges that result in inadequate facilities and...
The Power of Encouragement As a Force for Learning
Let Learning Happen As an educator and founder of a nonprofit education institute, I believe, as does recent TED Prize winner, educator Sugata Mitra, that we are better off creating conditions to “let learning happen” rather than creating rigid structures that favor...
The selling of Open Educational Resources (OER)
As a self-professed metadata geek, I’ve recently been participating in an online discussion about metadata and the Learning Registry. I have to say, it feels as if I’m on a merry-go-round that won’t stop, because for the past 10 years I’ve engaged in dozens if not...