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Cross-Cultural Learning with OER Exchange Program
At ISKME’s headquarters in Half Moon Bay, California, four Professional Fellows on a U.S. Department of State Open Educational Resources (OER) Exchange Program– education leaders forging new open education initiatives and policies in their home countries of Jordan,...
State Department Expands Access to Open Educational Resources in the Middle East and North Africa
The U.S. Department of State is sponsoring a special exchange program on Open Educational Resources (OER) for education leaders in the Middle East and North Africa. Open Educational Resources are publically available course syllabi and materials, modules, textbooks,...
QFI & ISKME lead SEC workshops in Doha
On February 16-17, 2014 in Doha, Qatar, Qatar Foundation International (QFI) and the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) teamed up with education specialists at Qatar’s Supreme Education Council (SEC) for a two-day Action Collab...
Action Collab workshops to discuss education issues
The Action Collab, a series of workshops that implement a problem-solving design process as a way to learn how to accelerate collaboration and creativity, will follow the dynamic, four-step approach of the design-thinking framework: Identify Opportunity, Design,...
Bringing Innovative Teaching to Math Classrooms in Qatar
On December 9, 2013, QFI’s OER Fellows participated in an International Math Collaboration OER Training put on by ISKME in Half Moon Bay, Calif. The one-day training gave math teachers from the Middle East and US the opportunity to share best practices for innovative...