by agodwin | Jun 20, 2025
Basic needs insecurity is a substantial problem that has long affected thousands of students. Alongside the rising cost of tuition, students’ weak safety net, and lack of adequate legislation, urgent challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic have further exacerbated...
by cynthiajimes | Jun 19, 2025
In 2008, ISKME conducted an exploratory pilot study of the factors that contribute to a resource’s ability to “travel well”. We define travel well resources as resources that are localizable across multiple teaching and learning situations, including those...
by agodwin | Nov 16, 2021
While Bay Area community colleges have long engaged in innovative OER projects, their efforts have generally not encompassed degree or certificate programs that position graduates for success in the highest paying, highest demand Bay Area careers—including computing,...
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...
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...
