A Collaborative Future for the #GoOpen Network
Originally posted on Medium > This week, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology (OET) announced that it is sunsetting the federal #GoOpen initiative. While OET will continue to support the principles of open education, such as through...
A Collaborative Future for the #GoOpen Network
Photo by Allison Shelley CC BY-NC 4.0 This week, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology (OET) announced that it is sunsetting the federal #GoOpen initiative. While OET will continue to support the principles of open education, such as...
OER Discovery Research: Librarian and Faculty Curation Personas
ISKME’s work over the last decade has revealed that a principal barrier to OER use by educators is difficulty in finding the resources that they need. Existing OER platforms, including the Open Textbook Network, ISKME’s own OER Commons, and a growing number of...
Rapidly Responding with Relevant OER Over the Past Year
It has been a year since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared by the World Health Organization and schools around the globe began closing. It has been a year since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared by the World Health Organization and schools around the globe began...
STEM Accessibility: Explicitly Addressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for All Learners
ISKME, in collaboration with the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College (SERC), has just released an evaluation framework that STEM educators can use to determine the accessibility of OER based on auditory, visual, and neurological learner needs. ISKME,...