Educational think tank to tackle ‘Big Ideas’

Educational think tank to tackle ‘Big Ideas’

Early next week the Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay, will be abuzz with new ideas for educators, in the second annual Big Ideas Fest. Produced by the Princeton-based Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, the Big Ideas Fest will host more than 175...
Half Moon Bay conference explores ideas for ed reform

Half Moon Bay conference explores ideas for ed reform

About 200 educators, students, researchers and others have converged in Half Moon Bay to explore and develop innovative ideas to improve education. The Big Ideas Fest tackles such challenging questions as: How can we ensure that new technologies flourish, and how can...
Teachers Get Resourceful With ‘Open Content’

Teachers Get Resourceful With ‘Open Content’

Subtitled "Content-sharing across the Web is becoming a valuable classroom tool for educators," Andrew Trotter’s article at teachermagazine.org quotes Lisa Petrides and references ISKME’s OER Commons project: Subtitled "Content-sharing...

Coding Open-Ended Survey Data

I recently started coding the BIF participant survey data using my typical method. I imported the data into excel, looked for patterns in the open responses, and developed categories based on what I found. For the BIF survey, there are 77 responses, and for many...