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Want to Make Education Better? Leave Academia
Lisa Petrides—founder and CEO of ISKME, an independent education nonprofit—knew she could improve education. But she had to quit her dream job at Columbia to make it happen. Top Hat is the active learning platform that makes it easy for professors to engage students...
ISKME Board Adds Prominent Higher Education Equity Advocate and Corporate Information Officer
ISKME Board of Directors adds prominent higher education leader and equity advocate Martha Kanter and long-time corporate information officer Sharon Dhall as new board members. Two new board members will help guide the development expansion of ISKME programs focused...
Civitas Adds OER Search to Course Schedule Planner
A new open educational resources (OER) search tool has been directly integrated into Civitas Learning's academic planning platform, letting students know if OER materials are available as they build their course schedules. Civitas' College Scheduler enables students...
Bringing Our Authentic Selves To Make Change with Ashanti Branch of The Ever Forward Club
Ashanti Branch, Founder of The Ever Forward Club, will be joining us once again to kick off the opening session at Big Ideas Fest 2018. His groundbreaking work helps students and educators all over the world bring their authentic selves to make change. Ashanti and his...
Civitas Learning’s new OER search tool allows students to optimize their course schedule with classes that utilize open, low-cost course materials.
Responding to student demand for ways to reduce the cost of college, student success leader Civitas Learning today announced the launch of new search technology specifically designed to help students find courses that offer open educational resources (OER). This would...