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Surry Community College SCC Educates Faculty about OER to Boost Equity and Reduce Expenses
Original article from Surrey CC > Imagine how it feels to take a college class and not be able to afford or even find the textbook for the class. The alternatives are to share a textbook or do without. This is just the situation that Surry Community College is...
California’s $115 million investment in zero-textbook-cost program at risk of falling short
Original article on EdSource > As California’s 1.8 million community college students begin the term, many are forced to make a difficult choice — whether to spend hundreds of dollars on textbooks required to help them earn a degree, or to pay their rent or buy...
How ISKME Is Making OER More Accessible Throughout California’s Community Colleges
Originally posted by the Michelson 20MM Foundation > According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 1:4 adults in the United States have a disability, while 12.8% have a cognition disability and 4.8% have a visual disability. The inability to change...
A Retrospective of ISKME’s First Two Decades: A Quest for Participatory, Equitable, and Open Education
ISKME 20th Retrospective - PDF Publication Date: June 07, 2023 As a global education nonprofit, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) celebrates the first two decades of its work with a report that follows their journey to transform...
Celebrating 20 Years of Improving Teaching and Learning
Originally posted on Medium > It hasn’t always been easy pushing up against the traditional confines of education systems, both in the United States and around the world. But it feels good to say that since ISKME was founded 20 years ago, we’ve kept true to our...