Testimonials

“Over the past two years, ISKME has contributed greatly toward increasing access to high quality OER through its
cu ration services, improving the capability for individuals to create and edit OER through its OpenAuthor tool, and expanding the field of OER by sponsoring OER Fellowships and extending the reach of OER through additional languages (Arabic) and accessibility standards (via its partnership with FLOE). They have also established important partnerships with a handful of states to curate communities that develop and amend OER to meet Common Core State Standards and local state needs.” ” … Though they’re a small organization, [ISKME isl very good at implementation. Their work on OER Commons has helped that user base expand, and their ability to develop partnerships with other organizations has led to significant developments in the OER field. For example, by partnering with a few states, ISKME has been able to grow a set of small communities that are interested in using OER and will likely be able to continue using OER beyond the initial training period. In addition, because of their willingness to experiment and seize opportunities as they arise, ISKME has become a key player in the expansion of OER into the Middle East, an area with nascent interest in OER. ISKME is an excellent organization that continues to represent OER at important education/tech-ed meetings, and expand the OER movement. As such, they are core to the field building pillar of our OER strategy.”

Kathy Nicholson, Manager, Application Development and Support, IT & Program Officer, Education, Hewlet

“Being a rapid-fire presenter at the 2070 Big Ideas Fest was an unique and exhilarating professional experience, because of the creative atmosphere of the conference, which, unfortunately, is not the norm for education events. The present-ers and also participants were dynamic people, focused on new, big ideas. Every detail of the conference, including the gorgeous location, was carefully orchestrated to encourage collaboration and divergent thinking among us. I was inspired to present my own big idea in a creative way, in which the form mirrored the content: because I was presenting a idea from the book I co-authored, Teaching 2030: What we Must Do For Our Public Schools–Now and In the Future, I presented as myself 20 years in the future. The challenge of that experience, along with engaging with so many forward thinking people in the Action Collabs, helped push my thinking about my own work to new levels.”

Ariel Sacks, 2010 Big Ideas Fest Rapid Fire Speaker, Teacher, Leader, Writer of Standing on the

“I hope all educators get the opportunity to attend Big Ideas Fest. More importantly, I hope all ed workshops evolve to resemble the delivery model. Here’s why.This is my 17th year in education. As a result, I’ve taken many courses and attended many more trainings, workshops and conferences. Most are constructed to mirror the traditional classroom. Their objective is to deliver content to people. Even the workshops designed to help teachers transform or reinvent edu-cation are delivered in the traditional way. Big Ideas Fest is about people learning. It opens people up and forces them out of their comfort zone. It directs their attention to the way they think and feel when they are confronted with chal-lenges and new information. It does so within a diverse collection of amazing participants who continually model new ways to approach old challenges. As a result, the skills people strengthen at Big Ideas Fest are content agnostic; which results in an increased ability to be better at everything they do.I hope all educators get the opportunity to attend Big Ideas Fest. More importantly, I hope all ed workshops evolve to resemble the Big Ideas Fest model. That itself is a Big Idea.”

Tim Farquer

“Over the past two years, ISKME has contributed greatly toward increasing access to high quality OER through its
cu ration services, improving the capability for individuals to create and edit OER through its OpenAuthor tool, and expanding the field of OER by sponsoring OER Fellowships and extending the reach of OER through additional languages (Arabic) and accessibility standards (via its partnership with FLOE). They have also established important partnerships with a handful of states to curate communities that develop and amend OER to meet Common Core State Standards and local state needs.” ” … Though they’re a small organization, [ISKME is] very good at implementation. Their work on OER Commons has helped that user base expand, and their ability to develop partnerships with other organizations has led to significant developments in the OER field. For example, by partnering with a few states, ISKME has been able to grow a set of small communities that are interested in using OER and will likely be able to continue using OER beyond the initial training period. In addition, because of their willingness to experiment and seize opportunities as they arise, ISKME has become a key player in the expansion of OER into the Middle East, an area with nascent interest in OER. ISKME is an excellent organization that continues to represent OER at important education/tech-ed meetings, and expand the OER movement. As such, they are core to the field building pillar of our OER strategy.”

Kathy Nicholson, Manager, Application Development and Support, IT & Program Officer, Education, Hewlett Foundation

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