Testimonials

"I hope all educators get the opportunity to attend Big Ideas Fest. More importantly, I hope all ed workshops evolve to resemble the delivery model. "I hope all educators get the opportunity to attend Big Ideas Fest. More importantly, I hope all ed workshops evolve to resemble the delivery model. Here's why.This is my 17th year in education. As a result, I've taken many courses and attended many more trainings, workshops and conferences. Most are constructed to mirror the traditional classroom. Their objective is to deliver content to people. Even the workshops designed to help teachers transform or reinvent education are delivered in the traditional way. Big Ideas Fest is about people learning. It opens people up and forces them out of their comfort zone. It directs their attention to the way they think and feel when they are confronted with challenges and new information. It does so within a diverse collection of amazing participants who continually...

“Over the past  two years, ISKME has contributed greatly toward increasing access to high quality OER through its curation services, improving the capability for individuals to create and edit OER through its OpenAuthor tool, and expanding the field of OER by sponsoring OER Fellowships and extending the reach of OER through additional languages (Arabic) and accessibility standards (via its partnership with FLOE). “Over the past  two years, ISKME has contributed greatly toward increasing access to high quality OER through its curation services, improving the capability for individuals to create and edit OER through its OpenAuthor tool, and expanding the field of OER by sponsoring OER Fellowships and extending the reach of OER through additional languages (Arabic) and accessibility standards (via its partnership with FLOE).  They have also established important partnerships with a handful of states to curate communities that develop and amend OER to meet Common Core...

 Being a rapid-fire presenter at the 2010 Big Ideas Fest was an unique and exhilarating professional experience, because of the creative atmosphere of the conference, which, unfortunately, is not the norm for education events.  The presenters and also participants were dynamic people, focused on new, big ideas.  Every detail of the conference, including the gorgeous location, was carefully orchestrated to encourage collaboration and divergent thinking among us.  Being a rapid-fire presenter at the 2010 Big Ideas Fest was an unique and exhilarating professional experience, because of the creative atmosphere of the conference, which, unfortunately, is not the norm for education events.  The presenters and also participants were dynamic people, focused on new, big ideas.  Every detail of the conference, including the gorgeous location, was carefully orchestrated to encourage collaboration and divergent thinking among us.  I was inspired to present my...

"I thought the part of the Action Collab where we prototyped and literally built a system from scratch was particularly meaningful and inspiring - I'd never seen myself as someone who "makes" things, and for the first time, I saw myself conceptualizing and making a solution. It was really eye-opening." "I thought the part of the Action Collab where we prototyped and literally built a system from scratch was particularly meaningful and inspiring - I'd never seen myself as someone who "makes" things, and for the first time, I saw myself conceptualizing and making a solution. It was really eye-opening."

"Hearing success stories from the trenches showed be real world failures and their successful rebounds in action. Success is built on the courage to fail." "Hearing success stories from the trenches showed be real world failures and their successful rebounds in action. Success is built on the courage to fail."