ISKME’s Open Educational Resources (OER) Training Program is tailored for K-20 formal and informal educators to support knowledge sharing and continuous improvement of resources used in teaching and learning. The OER Training Team meets educators at their current level of familiarity and builds a program that supports the participatory and collaborative skills needed to effectively engage with OER, as well as the technological tools to do so.
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In 2008, ISKME conducted a study to examine the feasibility of and design for an initiative that engages teachers, learners, and practitioners in the collaborative process of developing, using, and improving freely available Open Educational Resources (OER) in the arts and in social justice. That work revealed an opportunity to increase greater creative, equitable participation in teaching and learning the arts in K-12 classrooms.
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This project assisted a large principal leadership program in the development of a system to support its mission to better share its learnings with the broader national and international education community, and to filter in external information to impact its ability to learn and meet changing demands.