ISKME
For General Operating Support
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Amount$600,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/22/2011
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
Hundreds of OER providers worldwide encourage innovation and change in teaching and learning by making content more accessible and reusable; yet OER largely have not been incorporated into mainstream education. Teachers need new skills and strategies in order to find, remix, share, and integrate open content into the classroom. Over the past eight years, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education has grown into a research leader in social learning and open education as well as a hub institution in the field of OER. This unrestricted grant would support its activities, including efforts to increase access to digital materials through its OER Commons platform; expand professional development programs that align OER to new teaching and social learning practices; and support alternative learning pathways through OER in both K-12 and community colleges.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.iskme.org
Address
323 Harvard Avenue, Half Moon Bay, CA, 94019-1307, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support of the #GoOpen National Network
ISKME works to increase understanding of open educational approaches that can improve the relevance, inclusiveness, and accessibility of teaching and learning experiences. With this grant, ISKME will focus on developing awareness and effectiveness of K-12 open education — and in doing so, increase connections to key national agendas on equity and student success across all levels of education. To strengthen the impact of OER throughout the education pipeline, ISKME will facilitate cross-state conversations in areas such as digital equity, dual enrollment, and the alignment of open pedagogical approaches and deeper learning competencies. (Substrategy: Field Building)
for general operating support
ISKME is an independent nonprofit whose mission is to improve the practice of continuous learning, collaboration, and change in the education sector. As a pioneer in bringing advancements in information and library science into the development of digital infrastructure, ISKME is committed to increasing how open education practice can be more effectively accessed and shared across learning contexts. The next phase of their work will focus on strengthening their models and infrastructure by engaging the wider community to participate in a more robust and interoperable platform, enhanced by a new open-source interface, and best-in-class professional learning. Additionally, a new research and innovation lab and the implementation of agile processes better position ISKME to support and scale the adaptive and transformative use of open educational resources that will benefit diverse students and educators around the globe. (Substrategy: Field Building)
for support of the #GoOpen National Network
ISKME works to increase understanding of open educational approaches that can improve the relevance, inclusiveness, and accessibility of teaching and learning experiences. ISKME is facilitating a transition in leadership of the federal #GoOpen initiative. With this grant, ISKME will form a collaborative coalition to support a renewed national, community-led K-12 open education network. ISKME will convene key partners and champions from the community to develop a strategic plan and pilot key components of the plan with the goal of elevating K-12 open education nationally. (Substrategy: Field Building)
