by Team ISKME | Jan 14, 2022 | Blog
Photo by Allison Shelley CC BY-NC 4.0 This week, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology (OET) announced that it is sunsetting the federal #GoOpen initiative. While OET will continue to support the principles of open...
by Team ISKME | Nov 2, 2021 | Blog
ISKME’s work over the last decade has revealed that a principal barrier to OER use by educators is difficulty in finding the resources that they need. Existing OER platforms, including the Open Textbook Network, ISKME’s own OER Commons, and a growing number of...
by Team ISKME | Mar 16, 2021 | Blog
It has been a year since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared by the World Health Organization and schools around the globe began closing. As we at ISKME reflect on the past year of educators and learners adapting to the many challenges that have arisen with school...
by Team ISKME | Feb 2, 2021 | Blog
ISKME, in collaboration with the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College (SERC), has just released an evaluation framework that STEM educators can use to determine the accessibility of OER based on auditory, visual, and neurological learner needs. Based...
by Team ISKME | Jan 12, 2021 | Blog
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing inequities and ushered in new challenges to which California and its community colleges are being called upon to respond. Alongside the rising cost of tuition and students’ weak overall safety net, colleges are facing...
by Team ISKME | Nov 18, 2020 | Blog
In order to achieve greater accountability and more effective use of public resources, millions of dollars and human resources are committed to the collection of data and to the measurement of impacts associated with educational practice and programs. Too often the...
