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.
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. (more…)
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.
Despite the upsurge in online developmental education course offerings in recent years, there is a dearth in knowledge on the optimal context to support such courses, and on how they are being taught, perceived and experienced by instructors. This study sought to explore how online developmental education courses are being taught, who is teaching them, and what factors, practices, and supports play a role in online teaching and learning.
This project involved facilitating a community college district in their design of a virtual collaboration and feedback system that bridged the needs of academic instruction and student support services in one centralized information system. This Early Alert System (EAS) electronically identified, tracked, and provided feedback for students who were at risk for not completing a particular course. (more…)
