by admin | Jun 20, 2013 | Blog
When public K-12 schools are pressured to decrease costs and devote more time to standardized testing, arts programs are one of the first to be cut. Despite a nationally adopted education agenda that seeks to promote creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration...
by Amee Evans Godwin | Mar 17, 2013 | Blog
“Open Ed” is a thirty-second video, that stitches together fragments of physical abandon captured at ISKME’s Big Ideas Fest 2012. Since 2009, hundreds of educators, students, entrepreneurs, researchers, philanthropists, and education technologists have attended the...
by admin | Feb 21, 2013 | Blog
I’m always reaching to see the ‘intertwingled’ — a term coined by computer scientist Theodor Nelson to describe knowledge that is related and is often connected by cause and effect. The intertwingled nature of human knowledge represents a primary frontier of...
by msimmons | Feb 11, 2013 | Blog
As states put their plans into place for Common Core State Standard implementation, many are realizing how Open Educational Resources (OER) and open practices play an essential role in accessing the true power of the Common Core. The opportunity for sharing and...
by lpetrides | Feb 8, 2013 | Blog
Last Monday, during her final week as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton commanded the attention of a global education force field from the State Department, the Arab League, the Department of Education, and a group of representatives from other national and...
by ClareMiddletonDetzner | Feb 4, 2013 | Blog
By Clare Middleton-Detzner and Erin KneplerWe’ve seen how hot news stories and video links can go viral through social media channels. Imagine if that same fast pace could propel ideas through higher education to benefit productivity and efficiency in those systems....
