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Great Opportunity to Learn About Custom Schooling at the Internet Archive, Wed., Jan 11th
Lisa Petrides, Ph.D.
January 4th, 2012
Next Wednesday, January 11th, from 6:30pm-8:30pm, the Internet Archive and ISKME will co-host a conversation that explores the concept of custom schooling, which is a model of individualized teaching and learning experienced in class sizes of one to four students. The... Read More
Education Champions Work Together to Find Solutions for Open Education Design Challenge at Big Ideas Fest 2011
Carol Hedgspeth, Ph.D.
December 14th, 2011
ISKME’s 3rd annual Big Ideas Fest (www.bigideasfest.org) was held this week in Half Moon Bay, CA, and as promised, creative doers and thinkers from diverse levels of education gathered to learn from and share with each other. This convening yielded creative,... Read More
Roadtrip Nation Makes Their Mark
Samantha Wayne
December 13th, 2011
For the past three years, we have been delighted to host Roadtrip Nation and their students at Big Ideas Fest. When the famous green RV pulled onto the roof of the Ritz Carlton’s parking lot last Sunday afternoon, the first day of Big Ideas Fest 2011, we knew we were... Read More
ISKME Receives Matching Grant from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to Incubate Big Ideas In Beta Initiative
Lisa Petrides, Ph.D.
December 7th, 2011
Today, ISKME's Big Ideas Fest got a shot in the arm from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with a $50,000 matching grant to incubate our new program, Big Ideas in Beta, which launched at this year’s Big Ideas Fest, Dec. 4-7 in Half Moon Bay. Big Ideas Fest, a... Read More
Building Knowledge and Practice through Supporting OER Adoption and Use
Cynthia Jimes, Ph.D.
October 26th, 2011
ISKME’s OER Commons network unites teachers with a curated collection of over 30,000 open educational resources (OER). Providing access alone, however, does not empower teachers to integrate OER into K-12 classrooms and other settings. To address this critical need,... Read More
STEMTech Highlights: Innovation in STEM Education
Carol Hedgspeth, Ph.D.
October 24th, 2011
Overheard at 2011 STEMTECH 2011: “Technology doesn’t have to be scary - just innovative enough to make a change in how learners learn.” At the League for Innovation’s 2011 STEMTech Conference in Indianapolis, I attended workshops on innovations... Read More
Supporting OER Leaders with ISKME's Fellowship Program
Megan Simmons
October 19th, 2011
Applications Now Being Accepted for ISKME's OER Fellowship Program As we begin our third year of the OER Fellowship Program, I reflect on all of the inspiring collaborations that have taken place with our fabulous Fellows. ISKME began the OER Fellowship Program in 2009... Read More
A Recent DEI Survey Reveals Sharing and Collaboration Needs
Carol Hedgspeth, Ph.D.
September 28th, 2011
The Institute for Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) recently conducted a survey to look see how Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) projects want to share and collaborate. Specifically, the survey asked participants to reflect on how their DEI communities... Read More
School is OPEN!
Letha Kay Goger
August 23rd, 2011
  Seven Tips for Using OER in Your Classroom Open Education Resources (OER), like those in OER Commons, are part of a worldwide movement that is making educational content openly available to all. OER are lessons, course materials, and other content that is created,... Read More
Career-Aligned Teaching and Learning
Amee Evans Godwin
August 4th, 2011
  How can a relationship with industry impact what’s taught in the classroom? How can students emerge from community college prepared for the workforce? How can students jumpstart a career path when still in high school?   In a recent visit to a Bridge to... Read More