While Bay Area community colleges have long engaged in innovative OER projects, their efforts have generally not encompassed degree or certificate programs that position graduates for success in the highest paying, highest demand Bay Area careers—including computing, architectural and en
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ISKME is working on the six-month project, “Piloting An Evaluation Framework f
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ISKME is developing the Universal School Library (USL), a project to offer equitable access to high quality reading for K-12 learners, in partnership with the Internet Archive, the Florida State University School of Information, and Wayne State University, as well as a national cohort
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Launched in July 2014, Teachers Advancing Common Core Learning (TACCL) was an 18-month project facilitated by ISKME, and supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Teacher Practice Networks Initiative. TACCL provides training and resources to support teachers in creating cross-disciplinary lessons that focus on students’ close reading and inquiry-based learning skills.
The Primary Source Project (PSP) is a timely effort being conducted by ISKME, supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to collaboratively create a slim canon of openly accessible and contextualized primary sources on OER Commons for engaging K-12 teachers and students. Materials will include both currently open sources and materials that will become open through the advocacy work of the project.
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