Building OER Curriculum-Alignment Networks Across States and Higher Education Libraries

by agodwin | Oct 28, 2020

ISKME’s work in open education over the last decade has revealed that a principal barrier to use of openly licensed course materials, or Open Educational Resources (OER), by educators is the difficulty in finding the resources that they need. Although existing OER...

OER Use for Online and Emergency Remote Learning in California Community Colleges

by agodwin | Oct 21, 2020

With the COVID-19 pandemic, wildfire evacuations, and future potential crises, there is a growing need for digital course materials to fill the gaps left by publishers’ textbooks, which are often not available as e-versions for students through the campus library’s...

Piloting An Evaluation Framework for Accessible STEM OER

by admin | Sep 2, 2020

ISKME is working on the six-month project, “Piloting An Evaluation Framework for Accessible STEM OER”, in partnership with SERC, as part of a mini-grant program facilitated by Bates College and the SCORE network. The project is supported by the William and Flora...

Exploring OER Curation and the Role of School Librarians

by agodwin | May 10, 2018

ISKME is working with Florida State University School of Information (iSchool) on a two-year research project, Exploring OER Curation and the Role of School Librarians. The project is focused on conducting case studies with school librarian participants, and school...

The Role Of “Open” In Strategic Library Planning

by Team ISKME | Apr 4, 2016

Abstract: Academic libraries are undergoing evolutionary change as emerging technologies and new philosophies about how information is created, distributed, and shared have disrupted traditional operations and services. Additionally, the population that the academic...