OER Commons

08/06/2023

It’s Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education's 20th anniversary! To celebrate our journey, we’re releasing a new retrospective (https://www.iskme.org/iskme-20th-retrospective) on our first two decades that highlights ISKME’s contribution to transforming teaching and learning across the country and around the globe. We are so proud to know that over the course of two decades, we have made the “impossible” real in education by dreaming big. We’ve helped support millions of teachers, faculty, students, and others in working together to create, use, and share freely available education content. And we’ve helped to create policies to build a world that is more participatory, equitable, and open.

You can read and download the full retrospective here: https://www.iskme.org/iskme-20th-retrospective

07/02/2023

This month's ISKME Insights: we're discussing new OER personas research that has helped us better understand our users and build a better platform. Also check out the position we're hiring for, an upcoming webinar, and more! https://mailchi.mp/iskme/dive-into-education-personasand-were-hiring

29/11/2022

We provide the building blocks – the tools, training, and space – for educators to collaborate and leverage our curated libraries of free and open learning materials. We’re helping ensure that students across the world have access to resources they need to learn and thrive.

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11/03/2022

This , we're celebrating the launch of a new Professional Learning Hub on OER Commons. The Hub - which will continue to grow and develop - focuses on open resources for educators around accessibility, culturally responsive teaching, and more. Check it out here:

Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practice (OEP) open the door to increased equity and social justice in education. ISKME offers professional learning around the foundations of OER/OEP, then builds on those foundations with training covering accessibility and culturally responsiv...

30/11/2021

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Whether it’s in-person or online, access to timely, relevant, and adaptable learning materials is more important than ever. The tens of thousands of open resources on OER Commons are free - and they will be forever - but building communities to support them, developing new collections, and creating infrastructure to grow the open community isn’t. Grassroots donations from people like you can help us transform teaching and learning: make a donation today!

24/08/2020

Starting this week! Our Back-to-School webinar series for educators "Going Open For All The Right Reasons (& Resources)" will discuss best practices when using and customizing resources that other teachers have shared freely. Reserve your spot here! https://tinyurl.com/OpenBackToSchool

21/07/2020

The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) is designing the future of education. The nonprofit is on a mission to improve learning and collaboration in the education sector through social science research, research-based innovations, and by assisting schools, colleges,....

19/06/2020

In the latest College Promise Policy Brief, “Magnifying the Impact of College Promise through Open Educational Resources", Lisa Petrides, Ph.D., founder and CEO of ISKME, analyses recent research on the impact of textbook affordability on student success and points to Open Educational Resources

02/06/2020

We still have a few spots available in our High School Math, ELA, and History educator cohorts! These are small, expert-supported, informal discussion spaces to brainstorm with peers and share ideas around adapting to the current situation.

Kicking off this week on Thursday -

Read more, and sign up now using this form:

ISKME is inviting you to participate in small, subject-based cohorts of educators to discuss crisis learning and the pivot to online teaching, including the use of openly-licensed materials. Our goal is to provide practitioners with an expert-supported, informal discussion space to brainstorm with p...

15/04/2020

Join us and our co-hosts SETDA and CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology) for a conversation on Twitter this Thursday, 1230ET/930PT about innovations in online teaching as educators work to pivot their classroom practices to the virtual space.

13/04/2020

"Where can I find resources to support my students? What are best practices for teaching online? How do I sort through all these new service offerings?"

Sign up for 1:1 office hours with our Director and education expert Mindy Boland ⬇️ tomorrow! https://calendly.com/ethan-iskme/remote-learning-office-hours?month=2020-04&date=2020-04-14

10/04/2020

We know that educators are under tons of pressure in the pivot to teaching online. That's why we're making our team of education experts available for 1:1 "office hours" - to offer thought-partnership, curation advice, help finding resources, and other support. Slots for April 14th are available now: sign up here!