Al-Masdar: The Source for Arabic Teaching and Learning
Al-Masdar means The Source in Arabic and this site is a rich source of resources, opportunity, and community for Arabic language teachers.
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Composing Possibilities: Open Educational Resources and K-12 Music Education
Music open educational resources (OER) have the potential to fill gaps in access to instructional materials for K-12 music teachers and learners, and to support teachers and learners as content creators and collaborators in meeting educational goals. This study explores the current state of music OER, the audiences that these resources serve to benefit, and the opportunities and challenges involved in adopting an open approach to the development of music education resources.
Cyberlearning at Community Colleges (C3): Faculty Scholarship, E-science, and Open Curriculum
The Cyberlearning at Community Colleges (C3) Project is designed to engage biology faculty in forming communities to leverage digital library resources and social networking technologies toward enhanced biology instruction.
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CyberInfrastructure-TEAM Implementation Project: The Signal Processing Education Network
As external evaluator for the project, Collaborative Research: CI-TEAM Implementation Project — The Signal Processing Education Network, ISKME formatively and summatively evaluated the project’s efforts to support a network of teachers, students and practitioners who collaboratively explored dynamic Signal Processing (SP) content as they worked to model real world science and engineering behaviors and inquiry-based teaching and learning practices.
Connexions: Author Use and Reuse of Open Educational Resources
For teachers and learners, the proliferation of Open Educational Resources (OER), along with advances in information technologies, has meant centralized access to materials and the possibility of creating, using, and reusing OER globally, collaboratively, and across disciplines. Focusing on the repository Connexions (www.cnx.org), this study examined how and to what extent OER are created, adapted and augmented by both individuals and communities of author users.
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